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3352 OTHER PROPERTIES
A FINE SILVER INLAID IWAI SCHOOL SOMEN
Edo period (18th century) 3354
Forged in sections and hammered up with prominent wrinkles on the AN O-BOSHI KABUTO
brow and exaggerated eyebrows ending in whorls, the side edges Momoyama period (early 17th century)
with a cut-away below the wearer’s ears and decorated on the surface The russet-iron bowl constructed of 16 plates, each applied with rows
with silver nunomezogan on the eyebrows, mustache and the beard, of six large rivets diminishing in size as they approach the crown
interior lacquered red $2,500 - 3,500
$10,000 - 15,000
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTOR AN O-BOSHI KABUTO
Edo period (18th century)
3353 The russet-iron bowl constructed of 23 plates riveted together and
A FINE IRON SOMEN each adorned with nine standing rivets, the crown fitted with a four-
Edo period (17th/18th century) stage gilt-copper tehen kanamono pierced with chrysanthemum
Forged in sections with a removable nose plate and designed with scrolls and with shinodare and designed in kata-jiro style pierced with
deeply embossed eyebrows and deep wrinkles on the cheeks chrysanthemum scrolls, the mabizashi applied with stenciled leather
terminating in stylized “ear-shaped” flourishes at the corners of the and kuwagata-dai pierced with foliate scrolls, the large fukigaeshi
mouth, with odayori kugi (bent cord posts) on the cheeks and straight applied with stenciled leather, gilt-copper heraldic crests of the Ueno
cord pegs on the chin on cherry-floret grommets, applied with a clan and trimmed with fukurin, the bowl fitted with a three-lame
bushy mustache, the interior lacquered red, fitted with a single lame o-manju jikoro laced in blue with orange highlights, the interior bowl
yodarekake affixed with doeskin lacquered gold and with extensive red-lacquer inscription and dated
With double wood and black lacquer storage boxes Kansei 11 (1799)
$3,500 - 4,500
11in (28cm) high (overall)
$20,000 - 30,000

With Katchu Tokubetsu Kitcho Shiryo (Especially Precious Armor
Material) certificate no. 695 issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu
Hozonkai (Society for the Study and Preservation of Japanese Arms
and Armor), dated 1988.11.13.

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