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AN AKODA NARI KABUTO, EARLY MUROMACHI PERIOD
Muromachi period (1336-1573), late 14th/early 15th century
Mur omachi period (1336-1573), late 14th/early 15th century
The heavy bowl constructed of 28 iron plates riveted together, the rear of
each plate with a standing ridge, all covered in black lacquer and mounted
in nijo shiho style with the front and rear plates covered with a gilt-copper
plate engraved with scrolling vines and applied with shinodare, the base
with igaki, the crown adorned with a five-stage chrysanthemum tehen
kanamono, the front of the helmet with a kuwagata-dai pierce-carved with
chrysanthemum scrolls and fitted with gilt-brass kuwagata and a gilt-wood
maedate carved as a large peony blossom, the five-lame lacquered-iron
shikoro laced in blue lacing in kebiki style finishing in fukigaeshi applied with
gilt-brass manji heraldic crests, the fukigaeshi and mabizashi both applied
with stenciled doe skin and trimmed in gilt-brass fukurin
With a Tokubetsu Kicho Shiryo (Especially Important Material) certificate
issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozon Kai (Society for the Study
and Preservation of Japanese Armor)
$25,000 - 35,000
This fine akoda nari helmet is in the style produced by armor smiths in the
Kyoto and Nara region during the mid-fourteenth century. While much of the
gilt-copper hardware is original to the helmet bowl, the shikoro and some
of the related hardware appear to have been added in the late sixteenth or
early seventeenth century.
(detail)

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