Edo period (1615-1868), 17th/18th century The complete matching suit comprising a hood-like helmet, a do with six sections of kusazuri, kote, haidate, and suneate, all of russet-iron plates sewn to indigo-dyed hemp, the plates joined with Nanban gusari (four-way interlinked chain mail), the edges reinforced with stenciled-leather piping along the borders, each plate applied with a floral and geometric family crest of various design, the hardware carved with scrolling vines, the munaita applied with two shakudo heraldic crests, one of mi (three) enclosed in a circle, and the other of Genji guruma, the tengu menpo with a prominent beak lacquered red and black in Negoro style, with silvered-copper fangs, signed on the chin Tomohachi saku, the helmet fitted with a plume of yak hair, the rear of the cuirass mounted with an elaborate sashimono of nine arrows, the shafts bamboo and the fletchings silvered tin With a wood armor storage box, no armor stand