Jeff Olson
Director
Lot 1020
A zaboshi kabuto with a Fuji-san maedate By Fujiwara Hisatsuke, circa 1580
8 October 2013, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$7,000 - US$9,000
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A zaboshi kabuto with a Fuji-san maedate
By Fujiwara Hisatsuke, circa 1580
The heavy thirty-two plate kabuto constructed with the large rivets exposed and set off with grommets and covered entirely in black lacquer, the bowl mounted with a three-stage tehen kanamono and a five-lame Hineno-style shikoro, with small fukigaeshi decorated with silver confronted-ginger family crest inlaid into the surface of the lacquer, the front of the helmet mounted with an old, large silver and gilt-tin maedate formed as Mt. Fuji
The heavy thirty-two plate kabuto constructed with the large rivets exposed and set off with grommets and covered entirely in black lacquer, the bowl mounted with a three-stage tehen kanamono and a five-lame Hineno-style shikoro, with small fukigaeshi decorated with silver confronted-ginger family crest inlaid into the surface of the lacquer, the front of the helmet mounted with an old, large silver and gilt-tin maedate formed as Mt. Fuji
Footnotes
Exhibited:
Louisville, The Frazier History Museum, "Samurai, The Flowering of Japan", 2012. 5.12.—9.30
This helmet is a fine example by Hisatsuke. It is thought that this smith may have originally worked in Odawara and moved to Nara around the turn of the 17th century.
In its original configuration, this helmet was fitted with fukurin (decorative gilt-copper piping) which covered flanges of the individual plates and an older style shikoro (neck guard) that protruded out to the sides. The kabuto was refurbished in the Edo period when the fukurin were removed and a more vertical Hineno-style shikoro replaced the original.