"Samurai Armor Japan Edo Period"
JAPAN, Edo period (1603-1868) Akazonae aimai dō tosei gusoku type samurai armor. Materials: Red lacquer, iron plates, leather, fabric and chain mail. The mustache is made of boar hair. The armor is next apart from the menpo (mask) which should be a hoate. Missing the maedate. The mōn of the Maeda family is represented on the skirt, sleeves and gauntlets. Kabuto (helmet) suji-bachi in goshozan shape with eight riveted and lacquered slats. Mabizashi (visor) decorated with uchidashi eyebrows and forehead wrinkles. Shikoro (neck protector) divided into several parts, each comprising five red lacquered iron slats laced in green kebiki odoshi mirror. Tehen kanamono (summit ornament) with five levels in shakudo, the base is chiselled with foliage. Menpo me no shita men of the retai type (fierce) in dirty lacquered iron nui (imitating the oxidation of iron) in two parts, the nose fixed with two eyebolts. Yodarekake (gorget) with four slats in red lacquered iron, laced in kebiki odoshi. Dō (breastplate) of the kiritsuke yozane ishitoji okegawa type. The iron plates of the breastplate are fixed (yozane shape) by crossed and red lacquered leather lacing. Kusazuri (skirt) and haidate (thigh boots or underskirt) of the etchu type made of small lacquered iron plates, fixed to a chain mail structure. Shino type kote (sleeves) with lacquered iron plates, mounted on chain mail. Tosei sode (shoulder guards) with five plates in red lacquered iron and laced in mirror. Suneate (leg guards) of the etchu type in red lacquered iron. Wear particularly on the Kusazuri (skirt) Possibility of leasing