Complete Samurai Armor - Japan - Edo Period (1603-1868) - 17th Century

Complete samurai armor
Japan, Edo period (1603-1868)
17th century
Iron, lacquer, silk, horsehair

Kōseizan suji-bachi type kabuto, chiseled tehen, hachi with thirty-two suji, lacquered leather shikoro with five blades, iron mabizashi with three rivets, yellow silk agemaki, golden crescent moon-shaped maedate.
Nara-style mempo, chiseled with wrinkles, with horsehair mustache; mengu composed of four lacquered strips.
Two-piece do covered with black lacquer, tateage and kabuki dū composed of eight black lacquered strips, munalta, oshitsuke no ita and wakilta in sequence
Jinboari in navy blue, beige and red silk; the back featuring a ku-yō mon (nine stars; ku = nine); jō-mon (main crest) of the Kitsu-kawa clan, Makit-ta, Oku-daïra of O-bata, Sakura-i, Sō-ma, To-da of Ō-gaki, To-da (K), Tsuchi-ya; kaye-mon (secondary crest) of the Da-té, Hiji-kata, I-tô of Oka-da, Maki-no of Ta-nabe and Ko-muro, Oku-daïra of Oshi, Nam-bu, Ô-gyû of Fu-naï, Ô-ku-bo of Karasu-yama, Sakaki-bara, To-zawa.
Navy blue silk kote with tekko, lacquered iron shino.
Kusazuri lacquer composed of seven strips, silk hishinui no ita.
Haidate with beige silk chikara-gawa with patterns, lacquered iron Iyo.
Suneate made of leather and black lacquered iron elements.

Ref.: 6564

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