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A RARE UCHIDASHI KAWARI KABUTO
[HELMET]
EDO PERIOD, 18TH - 19TH CENTURY
打出し変わり兜、江戸時代、18−19世紀

the iron kabuto with a dragon emerging from the crown with
two-tiered kittsuke-zane shikoro [neckguard] with red kebiki-
odoshi lacing, the fukigaeshi [turnbacks] with stencilled leather
£ 15,000-20,000
€ 16,900-22,600 US$ 19,800-26,400

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A MOMONARI-STYLE IRON HELMET AND
YUKINOSHTA-DO [ARMOUR]
EDO PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY
鉄地桃形兜、雪ノ下胴具足、江戸時代、19世紀、
the helmet embossed and engraved with dragons among
clouds, gilt kuwagata and gilt triple hollyhock leaf mon, two-
tier iron ita-shikoro with mon, iron menpo with chain mail
yodarekake with mon,
along with a Yukinoshita-do gusoku, signed Myochin Munetae
and dated 1803 in the style of Yukinoshita Hisaie, the five-
section Yukinoshita-style iron cuirass, sheet iron sode
decorated with gold and silver inlaid dragons and deities, on
the cuirass a central mitsua-aoi mon, the three deities Marishi-
Ten, Benzai-Ten, and Daikoku-Ten, the kusazuri formed of 15
itazan, shino-gote, ita haidate, shino sune-ate, with armour box
£ 10,000-15,000
€ 11,300-16,900 US$ 13,200-19,800

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A FINE NUINOBE-DO TOSEI GUSOKU
[ARMOUR]
EDO PERIOD, 18TH - 19TH CENTURY
段威縫延胴当世具足、江戸時代、18−19世紀
the helmet in the form of an eboshi [court cap] lacquered in
sabiage style, the waki-date of stag antlers, the mabisashi with
embossed eyebrows, the fukigaeshi with choban mon, the
black-lacquered menpo with a three-tier yodase-kake and four-
tier shikoro, the cuirass black-lacquered, chu-sode and upper
sode of kittsuke-zane lacquered black and gold, with green,
red, white kebiki-odoshi lacing, hyotan-gote with linked chain,
gold-lacquered shino sune-ate
PROVENANCE
Kyoto Arashiyama Museum of Art, Kyoto.

LITERATURE
Kyoto Arashiyama Bijutsukan Zohinshu, Tetsu to Urushi no
Geijutsu, (Kyoto, 1986) p.14

W £ 40,000-60,000
€ 45,100-68,000 US$ 53,000-79,000
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