EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

细节

A BLUE AND ORANGE LACED JAPANESE ARMOUR
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
The twenty-four plate Hoshi bachi kabuto (helmet) with rows of graduated large headed rivets. The font mounted with a large gilt copper kuwa-gata dai holding a pair of gilt copper kuwagata (horns) and a central ken (Chinese sword form) the two fukigaeshi (turn backs) covered in egawa (printed leather) and bearing a gilded kamon (heraldic device) of a kocho (butterfly), the later hitsu (storage box) also bearing the kocho kamon
Approx: 57 ½ in. (146 cm.) high, when built on stand

来源

The Collection of Mr Kametaro Hamano.

出版

S. Yamnanaka, Exhibition of Japanese Armour and Horse Ornaments, New York, 1933, exhibition catalogue, no. 26.

展览

New York, Exhibition of Japanese Armour and Horse Ornaments, Yamanaka and Co., 1933

注意事项

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荣誉呈献

Benedict Winter

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拍品专文

A set of armour with similar gilt kuwa-gata dai was sold Christie's, New York, 25 April 2017, lot 80 ($247,500, including premium).

This fine quality Myochin school suit of armour would have been worn by a warrior as dictated by the Bakufu (military government) during the Edo period. The kabuto – a helmet with prominent riveting – comprises twenty-four separate plates finished in un-lacquered russet iron to show the quality of the craftsmanship. The helmet is strikingly surmounted by a pair of impressive gilt-copper horns and a central ornament in the form of a Chinese sword. With a fierce expression of furious power, the face armour is finely embossed on the wrinkles and protruding chin, and decorated with an impressive yak hair moustache. The two silk and printed leather turn-backs display the symbol of a butterfly, associated during the Edo period with the powerful Matsudaira and Ikeda families

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