A fine and heavy ko-boshi kabuto (helmet with standing rivets) Muromachi (1333-1573) or Momoyama (1573-1615) period, 16th/17th century Of unusual form with a somewhat flat crown, constructed of 62 plates riveted together with the small rivets left raised in relief and lacquered black, the front and back of the bowl with shiho decorated with clouds and dots in gold and silver hiramaki-e and applied with shinodare, the rear of the interior applied with a paper inscribed Norikuni sho saku (Made by Norikuni) with attestation Edo no ju Osumi no kami Munemasa (Munemasa, Lord of Osumi, living in Edo) and with a kao, the mabizashi and fukigaeshi applied with stenciled leather, the front of the bowl fitted with lacquered leather kuwagata-style maedate in a gilt-metal and shakudo kuwagata-dai, with a large shikoro of hon kozane wrapped in leather, the fukigaeshi applied with circular crests 5 1/2in (14cm) high (helmet bowl) Fußnoten Provenance Kyoto Arashiyama Museum Collection Published Kyoto Arashiyama Bijutsukan, Tetsu to urushi no geijitsu, Kyoto Arashiyama Bijitsukan zo hinshu (Iron and lacquer artworks from the collection of the Kyoto Arashiyama Museum), Kyoto: 1986
A fine and heavy ko-boshi kabuto (helmet with standing rivets) Muromachi (1333-1573) or Momoyama (1573-1615) period, 16th/17th century Of unusual form with a somewhat flat crown, constructed of 62 plates riveted together with the small rivets left raised in relief and lacquered black, the front and back of the bowl with shiho decorated with clouds and dots in gold and silver hiramaki-e and applied with shinodare, the rear of the interior applied with a paper inscribed Norikuni sho saku (Made by Norikuni) with attestation Edo no ju Osumi no kami Munemasa (Munemasa, Lord of Osumi, living in Edo) and with a kao, the mabizashi and fukigaeshi applied with stenciled leather, the front of the bowl fitted with lacquered leather kuwagata-style maedate in a gilt-metal and shakudo kuwagata-dai, with a large shikoro of hon kozane wrapped in leather, the fukigaeshi applied with circular crests 5 1/2in (14cm) high (helmet bowl) Fußnoten Provenance Kyoto Arashiyama Museum Collection Published Kyoto Arashiyama Bijutsukan, Tetsu to urushi no geijitsu, Kyoto Arashiyama Bijitsukan zo hinshu (Iron and lacquer artworks from the collection of the Kyoto Arashiyama Museum), Kyoto: 1986
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