Samurai armour, Edo period

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)