Lot Essay
Yokoya Tomotsune was born in 1802 and studied with the Ishiguro and Yokoya schools. He usually made tsuba and fuchi-kashira. Later in his career he moved from Edo to Dewa.
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THE HELMET BOWL SIGNED MUNETADA, EDO PERIOD (MID 19TH CENTURY), THE SUIT EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
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A Fine Black-Lacquered and Blue-Laced Do-Maru Yoroi [Armour]
The Helmet Bowl Signed Munetada, Edo Period (Mid 19th Century), The Suit Edo Period (19th Century)
The sixty-two plate black-lacquered iron tenkokuzan suji kabuto engraved on the interior with the characters Munetada, with a five stage mixed metal tehen kanamono, the rim of the peak and fukigaeshi covered by a fukurin chiselled with scrolling foliage, the fukigaeshi with mon [family crests] of peony, the gilt-copper detachable kuwagata and kuwagata-dai the latter decorated with peonies and bonji on a nanako ground, the maedate finely formed as a dragon, signed Dewa no kuni ju Yokoya Tomotsune with a kao, the five-lame iron komanju-jikoro of kiritsuke-kozane, the black-lacquered iron menpo fitted with gilt teeth and hair moustache, beard and chin tuft, the sendan no ita and kyubi no ita similarly decorated with printed leather, gilt-copper rim and peony crests, o-sode, another set of chu-sode, yodarekake, nodowa, sendan no ita and kusazuri of leather hon-kozane, tsutsu-gote, the do of iron hon-kozane mounted with gilt-copper kanamono, with shoji no ita on watagami, the iron black-lacquer haidate of kawara, the iron black-lacquered suneate in sanmai-zutsu style, the entire armour black-lacquered and laced in kebiki style in blue, contained in two black-lacquered gusoku-bitsu with leather covers, the peony crests in gilt
The Helmet Bowl Signed Munetada, Edo Period (Mid 19th Century), The Suit Edo Period (19th Century)
The sixty-two plate black-lacquered iron tenkokuzan suji kabuto engraved on the interior with the characters Munetada, with a five stage mixed metal tehen kanamono, the rim of the peak and fukigaeshi covered by a fukurin chiselled with scrolling foliage, the fukigaeshi with mon [family crests] of peony, the gilt-copper detachable kuwagata and kuwagata-dai the latter decorated with peonies and bonji on a nanako ground, the maedate finely formed as a dragon, signed Dewa no kuni ju Yokoya Tomotsune with a kao, the five-lame iron komanju-jikoro of kiritsuke-kozane, the black-lacquered iron menpo fitted with gilt teeth and hair moustache, beard and chin tuft, the sendan no ita and kyubi no ita similarly decorated with printed leather, gilt-copper rim and peony crests, o-sode, another set of chu-sode, yodarekake, nodowa, sendan no ita and kusazuri of leather hon-kozane, tsutsu-gote, the do of iron hon-kozane mounted with gilt-copper kanamono, with shoji no ita on watagami, the iron black-lacquer haidate of kawara, the iron black-lacquered suneate in sanmai-zutsu style, the entire armour black-lacquered and laced in kebiki style in blue, contained in two black-lacquered gusoku-bitsu with leather covers, the peony crests in gilt
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