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A Fine Do Maru No Yoroi [Armour With A Cuirass Which Wraps Round The Body Without Hinges]
Edo Period (Late 17th/early 18th Century)
The twenty-six plate russet iron suji bachi helmet superbly mounted in shakudo with a six stage tehen kanamono, the three front plates and one at the rear overlaid with shakudo, three shinodare to the front and two at the rear, on each side a pierced plate, the peak held by five shakudo rivets, two with mon designs and edged with gilded fukurin, a pierced plate covers the top of the russet iron haridate [crest holder], o-manju jikoro [large rounded neckguard] in black lacquered iron and leather hon kozane, both top rows turning back to form fukigayishi partly covered by iron plates overlaid with printed leather edged with gilt fukurin and bearing a gilt mon, iron russet lacquered mask possibly Iwai School, two lame yodarerake of leather hon kozane black lacquered, the upper plate with four mon headed rivets and a matching agemate-no-kwan, a nodowa [separate throat defence] with black lacquered iron neck ring constructed and mounted to match, a fine do maru of black lacquered iron hon kozane, chu sode of leather hon kozane black lacquered, fukurin, rivets and kogai kanamono [metal mount with a ring midway down the rear edge of a shoulderguard] all of gilded copper, shino gote black lacquered with the exception of the tekko which has been gilded and bears a shakudo mon, mounted on a rich brocade with large sleeve bags, gold lacquered leather kawara haidate, black lacquered iron bishamon suneate [type of shinguard] associated, the whole armour laced in a dark tea colour doe skin in kebiki style, with an armour box
