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Lot 1035
An armor with a russet iron do Edo period (18th century)
8 October 2013, 13:00 EDT
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An armor with a russet iron do
Edo period (18th century)
The component parts all lacquered matching red and laced in blue and comprising a russet-iron twenty-four plate suji kabuto mounted with a four-stage copper tehen kanamono and fitted with a five-lame shikoro, the fukigaeshi fitted with hanabishi family crests, the bowl surmounted by a yak's hair piece inserted into the tehen kanamono, later gilt-metal maedate of a hanabishi family crest, Nara-style menpo with boar bristle mustache and chin tuft and silver lacquer teeth, fitted with a four-lame yodarekake, the cuirass a russet-iron go-mai yukinoshita do applied with a gilt-copper dragon roundel on the front and Hanabishi crests, fitted with eight sections of five-lame kusazuri, osode, trimmed with stenciled doeskin on the kanmuri no ita, tsutsu gote, echu haidate, tsutsu suneate, with armor box, no stand
The component parts all lacquered matching red and laced in blue and comprising a russet-iron twenty-four plate suji kabuto mounted with a four-stage copper tehen kanamono and fitted with a five-lame shikoro, the fukigaeshi fitted with hanabishi family crests, the bowl surmounted by a yak's hair piece inserted into the tehen kanamono, later gilt-metal maedate of a hanabishi family crest, Nara-style menpo with boar bristle mustache and chin tuft and silver lacquer teeth, fitted with a four-lame yodarekake, the cuirass a russet-iron go-mai yukinoshita do applied with a gilt-copper dragon roundel on the front and Hanabishi crests, fitted with eight sections of five-lame kusazuri, osode, trimmed with stenciled doeskin on the kanmuri no ita, tsutsu gote, echu haidate, tsutsu suneate, with armor box, no stand
Footnotes
Published:
Ii Tatsuo, Akazonae, (Kyoto: 2007), pg 12.