A Blue-Laced Yokohagi Tosei Gusoku Suit of Armor
Edo period (18th century)
Decorated in brown lacquer and laced in blue and comprising a thirty-two plate russet-iron suji-bachi with a four-stage chrysanthemum teen kanamono and shakudo shinodare, the peak and turnbacks fitted with shakudo nanako-ji fukurin carved with vines, five-stage neck guard, the forecrest a gold-lacquer shogi game piece with the character kyosha, with a removable top and hollow interior laquered black; iron two-piece face mask with a hinged nose plate lacquered russet-brown and fitted with a boar's hair moustache and chin tuft, with a five-lame throat guard; the two-plate yokohagi okegawa do decorated with shakudo hardware carved with family crests against scrolling vines in sukashi-bori and mounted with seven sections of five-lame tassets lacquered russet-brown; chu-sode; shino-gote; shino haidate; shin-suneate; one wood storage box; no armor stand
A Blue-Laced Yokohagi Tosei Gusoku Suit of Armor
Edo period (18th century)
Decorated in brown lacquer and laced in blue and comprising a thirty-two plate russet-iron suji-bachi with a four-stage chrysanthemum teen kanamono and shakudo shinodare, the peak and turnbacks fitted with shakudo nanako-ji fukurin carved with vines, five-stage neck guard, the forecrest a gold-lacquer shogi game piece with the character kyosha, with a removable top and hollow interior laquered black; iron two-piece face mask with a hinged nose plate lacquered russet-brown and fitted with a boar's hair moustache and chin tuft, with a five-lame throat guard; the two-plate yokohagi okegawa do decorated with shakudo hardware carved with family crests against scrolling vines in sukashi-bori and mounted with seven sections of five-lame tassets lacquered russet-brown; chu-sode; shino-gote; shino haidate; shin-suneate; one wood storage box; no armor stand
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