Samurai armour, Edo period ·  Japan · ID: 3039609

Description

consisting of 12 parts, helmet “kabuto” made from eight steel sheets, with forehead plate “mabisashi” and five-parted neck guard “shikoro”, wooden helmet ornament “maedate”, lacquered in gold-black, “hachimanza” with ring-shaped floral enclosure from brass; face mask “menpo” with removable nose protection and moustache, including quadripartite throat protection “yodare kake”; chest armour “do” lacquered iron with leather coating inside; bipartite thigh guards “haidate” from gold knitted material and lacquered lamellas (bamboo/iron?), seven-parted hip protection “kusazuri” and shoulder plates “sode”, each from lacquered iron lamellas, held together by blue laces; sleeves from blue textile covered by netting of tiny metal rings, gauntlets “tekko” with metal protection for the back of the hand; shin guards “suneate” from lacquered iron lamellas, ring-shaped metal netting and leather inserts inside the legs; slightly dam., minor missing parts (face mask, lamellas), breakage (seven-parted hip protection), lamellas partly loosened from the ground, missing parts in the brittle textile (thigh guards)

The object Samurai armour, Edo period with the object ID 3039609 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 45 achieved a sales price of EUR 8,500.

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