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EDO PERIOD (18TH-19TH CENTURY)
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Red and dark blue-laced Shishi uchidachi gomai-do gusoku (armor)
Edo period (18th-19th century)
Comprising a russet iron thirty-two-plate suji-bachi (ridged bowl) helmet, the frontal plate wide and clad in black alloy with three gilt shinodare (arrow-like decorative strips), four-tier gilt hachimanza (decorative surround to aperture at crown), maedate (forecrest) of a gilt and painted wood long-eared two-horned shikami beast, five-tier manu-jikoro (neck guard) with fukigaeshi (turnbacks) clad with dyed leather with stencilled blossoms and gilt fukurin (edging), each with mon (clan badge) of confronting cranes in roundels, russet iron ryubu menpo (face mask), four-tiered blue and red laced black-lacquered iron kittsukezane (plate simulating laced scales) yodarekake (bib), gomaido (five-section cuirass) with large embossed head of a shishi with red pigment and gilt to front, the munaita (upper breast section) with two tiers of kittsukezane and leather cladding matching that of the helmet continuing to the waki-ita (underarm plates) and rear and with two applied silvered Takeda-bishi mon, kusazuri of seven tassets each of five tiers of close-laced kittsukezane, matching six-tier sode (shoulder guards), russet iron six-splint shino-gote (sleeves, the tekko (hand covers) with applied silvered Takeda-bishi mon, Iyozane haidate (thigh guards), six-splint shino-suneate (lower leg guards), with its lacquered box
Accompanied by a certificate issued by the Nippon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Kai (Japan Armor and Military Equipment Research and Preservation Society) number 1122 dated 11 March 1990 declaring the face mask Tokubetsu Kicho Shiryu (especially important material)
Edo period (18th-19th century)
Comprising a russet iron thirty-two-plate suji-bachi (ridged bowl) helmet, the frontal plate wide and clad in black alloy with three gilt shinodare (arrow-like decorative strips), four-tier gilt hachimanza (decorative surround to aperture at crown), maedate (forecrest) of a gilt and painted wood long-eared two-horned shikami beast, five-tier manu-jikoro (neck guard) with fukigaeshi (turnbacks) clad with dyed leather with stencilled blossoms and gilt fukurin (edging), each with mon (clan badge) of confronting cranes in roundels, russet iron ryubu menpo (face mask), four-tiered blue and red laced black-lacquered iron kittsukezane (plate simulating laced scales) yodarekake (bib), gomaido (five-section cuirass) with large embossed head of a shishi with red pigment and gilt to front, the munaita (upper breast section) with two tiers of kittsukezane and leather cladding matching that of the helmet continuing to the waki-ita (underarm plates) and rear and with two applied silvered Takeda-bishi mon, kusazuri of seven tassets each of five tiers of close-laced kittsukezane, matching six-tier sode (shoulder guards), russet iron six-splint shino-gote (sleeves, the tekko (hand covers) with applied silvered Takeda-bishi mon, Iyozane haidate (thigh guards), six-splint shino-suneate (lower leg guards), with its lacquered box
Accompanied by a certificate issued by the Nippon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Kai (Japan Armor and Military Equipment Research and Preservation Society) number 1122 dated 11 March 1990 declaring the face mask Tokubetsu Kicho Shiryu (especially important material)