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Lot 1016

A black lacquer kawari kabuto
Momoyama period (late 16th century)

8 October 2013, 13:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$10,625 inc. premium

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A black lacquer kawari kabuto

Momoyama period (late 16th century)
Constructed of a leather superstructure over a simple iron bowl and covered in black lacquer in the form of rabbit ears, with a large gilt lacquer moon ushirodate and applied with a five-lame shikoro

Footnotes

Exhibited:
Louisville, The Frazier History Museum, "Samurai, The Flowering of Japan", 2012. 5.12.—9.30

Published:
Andrew Mancabelli and David Pepper, Samurai, The Flowering of Japan, exh. cat., (Louisville, 2012), pg. 32

The "Rabbit in the Moon" is a common Japanese motif. Rabbits were used in Samurai symbolism representing speed (into battle), as a good omen for the continuation of ones family line (fertility), as well as being a figure in the Asian zodiac.

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