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A KAWA TOJI NIMAI-DO GUSOKU A NIMAI-DO GUSOKU [ARMOUR] A MOGAMI-DO GUSOKU [ARMOUR]
[ARMOUR] EDO PERIOD, EDO PERIOD, EDO PERIOD,
19TH CENTURY 18TH - 19TH CENTURY 18TH - 19TH CENTURY
革包二枚胴具足、江戸時代、19世紀 白糸威二枚胴具足、江戸時代、18−19世紀 萌黄素懸威最上胴具足、江戸時代、18−19世紀
all components of hardened leather laced with the sixty-two plate suji-bachi with gilt maedate the twenty-eight plate sujibachi helmet with gilt
red leather, the lobed helmet lacquered with of a crayfish, four tier kittsuke-zane shikoro, shinodare, gilt kuwagata, three tier ita-zane shikoro,
sabi-nuri. central gold lacquer disc in the form the fukigaeshi with gilt stylized clematis mon, hanabishi mon on the fukigaeshi, iron mask with
of the sun, the suspended components yodare- iron face mask with yodare- kake, the cuirass extensive yodare-kake, iron menpo with moustache
kake, chusode, shikoro, kusazuri all kittsuke-zane of kittsuke-zane lacquered black and gold and and extensive yodare-kake, all black-lacquered plate
lacquered black and gold with red velvet lower laced with white and orange braid matching the matching ichimonji shittesuke-zane laced with green
tiers, haidate lacquered black, shino sune-ate, other pendant components, shikoro, yodare-kake, braid in sugake-odoshi style with orange braid hishi-
with armour box kusazuri. chu-sode, and hai-date, shino sune-ate, nui, gilt metal fittings, shino-gote, Iyo haidate, shino
with armour box sune-ate, with armour box
LITERATURE
Ishikawa Prefectural Museum, Kaga Han no W £ 10,000-15,000 Accompanied by a certificate of registration Juyo
Token [Important Armour] by the Nihon Kacchu
Katchu, (Kanazawa, 1996) no. 27 € 11,300-16,900 US$ 13,200-19,800
Bugu Kenkyu Hozon-kai [the Association for the
W £ 15,000-20,000 Research and Preservation of Japanese Helmets
€ 16,900-22,600 US$ 19,800-26,400 and Armour].
LITERATURE
Token Shunju Shimbunsha, Katchu Bugu Juyo
Bunka Shiryo Zuroku, vol. III, (Tokyo, 2002), p.
92 - 93.
W £ 30,000-50,000
€ 33,800-56,500 US$ 39,500-66,000
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