Samurai helmet "kabuto" with half mask "menpõ", Edo period (1603-1868)
Japan
sold
EUR 5,500
Provenance
Werner Zintl, Worms, Germany (2015)Size
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch
Description
iron, lacquer, wood, lacing, feathers, rest, traces of scratches
High domed, lacquered helmet with curved, crested central ridge; fancy “maedate” in the shape of an inverted heart with seven arrows inserted in a radiating arrangement; small ears of lacquered leather with family “mon” made of gilt bronze. Neck guard “shikoro” of six lacquered metal plates “itamono”.
Half mask “menpõ”, two-part, iron, with five-piece neck guard “yodarekake”.