An eboshi-nari (Court cap-shaped) kabuto


Edo period (1615-1868), 18th centuryConstructed from four iron plates riveted together and hammered into the form of a courtier's cap, the mabizashi with eyebrows hammered in uchidashi, the exterior surface lacquered russet brown, the bowl fitted with a five-lame shikoro ending in small fukigaeshi applied with gilt-copper hollyhock crests, the lowest lame trimmed in boar's fur, the front of the helmet mounted with gold-lacquer crescent-moon maedate