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A Tosei Gusoku
Edo Period (17th Century)
The sixty-two plate black lacquered hoshi bachi helmet [helmet with standing rivets] with a matching six lame hineno style neckguard, six stage multi colour tehen kanamono, gilded copper kiri mon [badge in the form of paulownia flowers and leaves] maedate [fore crest], helmet signed Haruta Katsusada, a good black lacquered iron mask with a hair moustache and bold gilt copper teeth, throat defence of kiritsuke kozane, cuirass of black lacquered dangye ni-mai do form [two piece cuirass of mixed styles] with lacquered leather tassets of kiritsuke ko-zane, the lower plate of each lacquered with a gold mon, black lacquered iron oda gote, ko sode of kiritsuke ko-zane, ikada haidate and shino suneate, all laced in mid blue in both close [kebiki] and spaced [sugake] style, with a brown lacquered armour box
