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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A Suit of Armor
Edo period (18th century)
The thirty-two plate suji bachi lacquered red with a four-stage gilt and shakudo tehen kanamomo and shinodare on the front of the bowl, the turnbacks lacquered black and applied with a gilt-copper plum blossom, helmet fitted with a four-lame solid-plate neck guard laced in white, the bottom lame lacquered ishimeji gold, mounted with a large wood kuwagata-style maedate lacquered gold; the facemask russet-brown lacquer with gilt-copper teeth and red-lacquer lips and applied with a moustache, mask fitted with a four-lame false-lamellae throat guard lacquered black; ni-mai okegawa do lacquered brown and rendered to simulate wood, the lower sections of false-lamellae construction laced in white, fitted with seven sections of five-lame false-lamellae tassets decorated to match the do; chu-sode of gold-lacquer; chain-mail sleeves with plates lacquered gold; splint shin guards; sashimono mounted on the back of the do with a wood anchor lacquered gold and an animal-hair standard
Edo period (18th century)
The thirty-two plate suji bachi lacquered red with a four-stage gilt and shakudo tehen kanamomo and shinodare on the front of the bowl, the turnbacks lacquered black and applied with a gilt-copper plum blossom, helmet fitted with a four-lame solid-plate neck guard laced in white, the bottom lame lacquered ishimeji gold, mounted with a large wood kuwagata-style maedate lacquered gold; the facemask russet-brown lacquer with gilt-copper teeth and red-lacquer lips and applied with a moustache, mask fitted with a four-lame false-lamellae throat guard lacquered black; ni-mai okegawa do lacquered brown and rendered to simulate wood, the lower sections of false-lamellae construction laced in white, fitted with seven sections of five-lame false-lamellae tassets decorated to match the do; chu-sode of gold-lacquer; chain-mail sleeves with plates lacquered gold; splint shin guards; sashimono mounted on the back of the do with a wood anchor lacquered gold and an animal-hair standard