A gold-lacquer armor with a kawari kabuto


Edo period (1615-1868), 18th centuryThe suit laced in white and green and the component parts lacquered gold or black and comprising a zunari kabuto covered with black boar's fur and fitted with a black-lacquer mabizashi decorated with a gold-lacquer simulated rope trim, the small fukigaeshi lacquered gold, the bowl fitted with a four-lame solid shikoro, the bowl mounted with a simple gilt-bronze chrysanthemum maedate; the menpo lacquered black and applied with a thick boar's-fur moustache, the lips lacquered red and the teeth silvered, fitted with a four-lame yodarekake; the ni-mai okegawa do lacquered black at the top and trimmed with gold-lacquer simulated rope trim and fitted with six sections of five-lame kusazuri; chu-sode; chain mail and gourd-plate gote; chain-mail and plate haidate; shino suneate; holder for a flag; one storage box; one armor stand