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A MENPO (MASK) A MENPO (MASK)
Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
The black-lacquered ryubu style mask with a detachable nose and The ressei mask lacquered with sabinuri, the nose detachable and
odayori-no-kugi beneath the chin and a tube from the asenagashi-no- with odayori-no-kugi on the cheeks and gilded teeth, a hair moustache
ana, the wide mouth with gilt teeth and a red-lacquered upper lip, the and chin tuft, the yodarekake of black-lacquered iron kiritsuke kozane,
simple five-lame yodarekake of iron itamono black-lacquered and laced the upper two lames hinged and extended to fit round the neck as an
in dark blue sugake odoshi; with a wood storage box. (3). armoured collar, laced in green kebiki odoshi; unsigned.

£5,000 - 6,000 £2,500 - 3,500
JPY690,000 - 830,000 JPY340,000 - 480,000
US$6,200 - 7,400 US$3,100 - 4,300

Accompanied by a certificate issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu
Kenkyu Hozonkai (Society for the Study and Preservation of Japanese
Armour) dated 23 November 2014.

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