Complete Samurai Armor - Japan - Edo Period (1603-1868) - 19th Century

Complete Samurai Armor
Japan, Edo period (1603-1868)
19th century
Iron, lacquer, silk, leather, horsehair

Suji-bachi type lacquered leather kabuto, tehen chiselled with leaf motifs, hachi with twenty-eight suji, shikoro with three blades, mabizashi with shinodare in gilded brass engraved with stylised waves, with two long slats, maedate representing a mon.
Mempo in black lacquered leather with red lips and horsehair moustache; gorgerin composed of three lacquered strips.
Do in two parts covered with black lacquer, oshitsuke no ita and wakilta covered with navy blue silk, closing at the side.
Kote in navy blue silk, decorated with geometric motifs, lacquered trimmings.
Kusazuri in lacquer composed of six strips, kanmuri ita covered in blue silk decorated with geometric patterns.
Haidate with chikara-gawa in beige silk with geometric and zoomorphic patterns, Iyo in leather covered with lacquer.
Suneate in black lacquer.
Slippers covered with horsehair.

Original transport box not shown in the photos.

Ref.: 6107

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