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ASAI TOMOYUKI (ACTIVE MID-17TH CENTURY)
A heavy Hineno zunari kabuto
A heavy Hineno zunari kabuto
Edo period (1615-1868), 17th century
Edo period (1615-1868), 17th century
Iron, constructed of two side plates and a slightly elevated broad central
plate running down the center, bound together by a wide koshimaki, the
solid tsuke-mabizashi finished with a straight horizontal top edge cut at the
corners and secured with three prominent rivets, covered in black lacquer,
signed on the interior Asai Tomoyuki, the bowl fitted with a Hineno-style five-
lame shikoro finished in black combed lacquer, the lowest lame in sabi-nuri,
laced in blue spaced lacing, the front of the helmet fitted with a gold lacquer
crescent moon maedate
$6,000 - 8,000

For a very similar Hineno-zunari kabuto by an Asai/ Haruta smith, see Kei
Kaneda Chappelear, Japanese Armor Makers for the Samurai, Tokyo,
Miyoshi Printing Co., 1987, pp 220-221.

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