Blue Laced Black-lacquered Gusoku. 18th centuryThirty-two plate suji kabuto with a four-stage shakud
Blue Laced Black-lacquered Gusoku. 18th centuryThirty-two plate suji kabuto with a four-stage shakudo and gilt-metal chrysanthemum tehen kanamono and a five-lame shikoro ending in fukigaeshi trimmed in “rope” fukirin and applied with family crests of plum blossoms within circles, the maedate a gold-lacquer rhombus; the menpo applied with a stiff-bristle mustache, red-lacquer upper lip and fitted with a five-lame yodarekake; the yokohagi okegawa hatomune do with standing rivets, fukurin, and applied with an outer pocket on the right side and with seven sections of five-lame kusazuri, the reverse with a bracket for a battle standard; chu sode; oda gote; Etchu haidate; shino suneate.This armour is Koshu Tokubetsu Kicho Shiryo (Especially valuable material of the top rank) certificate no. 38 issued by the Nihon Bugu Katchu Kenkyu Hozonkai (Society for the Preservation of Japanese Armor), dated 1976Originally exhibited at “Token to bugu” (Swords and armor) at Daiwa Department Store, Kanazawa City, 1987 -- source link
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