Face mask "menpo" and throat guard "yodare kake", Edo period · Japan · ID: 3039601
Description
covering just the lower half of the face, iron, made from one piece apart from the two rows of teeth, brown lacquer on the outside, red lacquer inside, even the contour of the mouth accentuated in red, moustache; “yodare kake” consisting of three iron lamellas held together by blue textile laces, which serve for attachment of the “menpo” in front of the face as well, slightly dam., lacquer coating with minor missing parts and fine cracks, traces of old age (laces)
The object Face mask “menpo” and throat guard “yodare kake”, Edo period with the object ID 3039601 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 47.
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Comparing literature
Noever, P. (Hg.), Das alte Japan, München, New York 1997, p. 147