A blue and white-laced nimai do armor
A blue and white-laced nimai do armor

EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A blue and white-laced nimai do armor
Edo period (18th century)
The helmet a twenty-eight-plate russet-iron kabuto with four-tiered shikoro (neck guard), finished with small fukigaeshi and wide mabisashi (brim), gilt-maedate in the form of three large holly leaves, the menpo (facemask) of russet iron with moustache, detachable nose and four-tiered yodarekake, with a nimai do (two-piece cuirass) of lacquered honkozane (small individual scales) and kebiki odoshi (close lacing) in a diagonal blue and white pattern, with kusazuri (skirt) of seven tassets each of five rows of itazane, itazane sode (shoulder guards), shino-gote (splinted sleeves), shino-haidate (thigh protectors), seven-splint shino-suneate (leg guards)

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