A JAPANESE ARMOUR (TOSEI GUSOKU), EDO PERIOD comprising twenty four plate hoshi-sujikabuto profusely studded over its outer surface, fitted with mabizashi lacquered red on its underside, engraved brass maedate in the form of a vajra and decorated with flowers and foliage, shikoro of three lacquered iron lames, the uppermost with fukigaeshi, finely modelled russet iron ressei style mempo lacquered red on the inside, fitted with a pair of pierced ears, detachable nose and with traces of a moustache, yodarekake of three lames, russet iron lamellar dô lacquered on the inside, kusazuri of five lames, a pair of ko-sode each of seven lames, the middle lames applied with an engraved gilt-brass plaque (one with four detached lames, a pair of russet iron and mail kote, lacquered iron haidate, suneate and kogake Provenance JWHA Inv. No. 2032 See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Literature Stephen V. Grancsay, The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1961, p. 124 (ill.)
A JAPANESE ARMOUR (TOSEI GUSOKU), EDO PERIOD comprising twenty four plate hoshi-sujikabuto profusely studded over its outer surface, fitted with mabizashi lacquered red on its underside, engraved brass maedate in the form of a vajra and decorated with flowers and foliage, shikoro of three lacquered iron lames, the uppermost with fukigaeshi, finely modelled russet iron ressei style mempo lacquered red on the inside, fitted with a pair of pierced ears, detachable nose and with traces of a moustache, yodarekake of three lames, russet iron lamellar dô lacquered on the inside, kusazuri of five lames, a pair of ko-sode each of seven lames, the middle lames applied with an engraved gilt-brass plaque (one with four detached lames, a pair of russet iron and mail kote, lacquered iron haidate, suneate and kogake Provenance JWHA Inv. No. 2032 See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Literature Stephen V. Grancsay, The John Woodman Higgins Armory, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1961, p. 124 (ill.)
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