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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A VARIEGATED LACED NIMAIDO GUSOKU [ARMOUR]
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
The rare helmet leather and wood with sabiage [russet] lacquer design dyed leather, both having gilt fukurin [edging], maedate [forecrest] of a flaming Buddhist jewel of red and gold lacquered wood, leather sabiage menpo [face mask] with substantial white moustache, three tier yodarekake [bib] of lacquered iron shittsukezane, the lower tier fringed with fur, the nimaido [two-part cuirass] of lacquered leather hon-kozane [laced individual scales], kusazuri of seven tassets of seven tiers, six tier o-sode [large shoulder guards], black lacquered iron Shino-gote [sleeves], black-lacquered Iyo haidate [thigh guard], seven-splint black lacquered iron shino suneate [lower leg guards], the shikoro, yodare-kake, do, o-sode, kote, kusazuri, all in matching blue, white, purple and red lacing
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
The rare helmet leather and wood with sabiage [russet] lacquer design dyed leather, both having gilt fukurin [edging], maedate [forecrest] of a flaming Buddhist jewel of red and gold lacquered wood, leather sabiage menpo [face mask] with substantial white moustache, three tier yodarekake [bib] of lacquered iron shittsukezane, the lower tier fringed with fur, the nimaido [two-part cuirass] of lacquered leather hon-kozane [laced individual scales], kusazuri of seven tassets of seven tiers, six tier o-sode [large shoulder guards], black lacquered iron Shino-gote [sleeves], black-lacquered Iyo haidate [thigh guard], seven-splint black lacquered iron shino suneate [lower leg guards], the shikoro, yodare-kake, do, o-sode, kote, kusazuri, all in matching blue, white, purple and red lacing
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.