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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTOR

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A KAWARI KABUTO (ECCENTRICALLY SHAPED HELMET) IN THE FORM OF A
MAN’S HEAD (YAROTO KABUTO)
Edo period (18th century)
Designed as the shaved pate of a samurai built up in lacquer over a three-plate zunari helmet
bowl, the surface finished with wrinkles, eyebrows and standing veins and rendered in a
pinkish hue to resemble natural skin tone, the rear of the helmet applied with brown hair shot
with grey pulled back and tied in the yaroto style; fitted with a five-lame shikoro lacquered red
and laced in blue
With wood storage box
$30,000 - 40,000

For other yaroto kabuto, see Sasama Yoshihiko,Nihon no meito, part I, Tokyo, 1972, pgs. 228-
229 and 234-235.

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