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EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A Suji-kabuto helmet and hanbo mask
Edo period (18th century)
The sixty-two-plate bowl lacquered black and fitted with a five-stage gilt-copper and shakudo tehen-kanamono carved with scrolling vines, the ridges fitted with gilt-copper fukurin and igaki pierced with inoshishi-me, the mabi-sashi fixed to the bowl with sanko-no-byo rivets, the center one shakudo, the original stencilled doe skin still intact on the mabi-sashi and fukigaeshi and each trimmed with copper fukurin carved with vines, shakudo heraldic crests applied to the fukigaeshi, the helmet fitted with a detachable five-lame black-lacquer neck guard laced in blue with orange and white trim, the bottom lame pierced at the corners with inoshishi-me; the hanbo face mask lacquered black and fitted with a four-lame throat guard laced to match the neck guard
The helmet accompanied by a certificate of registration as Tokubetsu kicho shiryo (Especially important object) no. 1480 issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozon Kai (Japanese Armor Preservation Society), 2006.11.19
Edo period (18th century)
The sixty-two-plate bowl lacquered black and fitted with a five-stage gilt-copper and shakudo tehen-kanamono carved with scrolling vines, the ridges fitted with gilt-copper fukurin and igaki pierced with inoshishi-me, the mabi-sashi fixed to the bowl with sanko-no-byo rivets, the center one shakudo, the original stencilled doe skin still intact on the mabi-sashi and fukigaeshi and each trimmed with copper fukurin carved with vines, shakudo heraldic crests applied to the fukigaeshi, the helmet fitted with a detachable five-lame black-lacquer neck guard laced in blue with orange and white trim, the bottom lame pierced at the corners with inoshishi-me; the hanbo face mask lacquered black and fitted with a four-lame throat guard laced to match the neck guard
The helmet accompanied by a certificate of registration as Tokubetsu kicho shiryo (Especially important object) no. 1480 issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozon Kai (Japanese Armor Preservation Society), 2006.11.19
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