The Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armour

The Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armour

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The Property of a European Collector

A Yokohagi okegawa-do gusoku [armour] | Edo period, mid-18th century

VAT reduced rateUK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

May 11, 02:33 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Property of a European Collector

A Yokohagi okegawa-do gusoku [armour] 

Edo period, mid-18th century 


the sixty-eight plate russet iron suji bachi kabuto [helmet with raised ridges] with a copper-gilt five-stage tehen kanamono, black lacquer fukugaeshi [turnbacks], the four tier shikoro [neck guard] black lacquer with closely laced iro-iro odoshi [variegated lacing], the maedate [forecrest] a gilt kuwagata pierced to each end with a boar's eyes (inome) opening, the iron russet mempo with detachable nose, yak bristle moustache, the lips in red lacquer and teeth in gilt, red lacquer interior, the do [cuirass] of horizontal black lacquer honkozane plates, gold lacquer rim, decorated throughout with suhama mon [stylised inlet], the black lacquered kosode [small shoulder guards] laced to match the shikoro and kusazuri [skirt], seven tassets of five tiered kusazuri, with shinosunaete [shin guards], contained in a black lacquer hasamibako, the armour box in the above lot is for illustration only and not included in the lot 

Guiseppe Piva, Samurai: Opere della Collezione Koelliker e delle Raccolte Extraeuropee del Castello Sforzesco, (Milan, 2009), no. 1, pg. 44.
Palazo Reale, Milan, Samurai: Opere della Collezione Koelliker e delle Raccolte Extraeuropee del Castello Sforzesco, 2009. 
The variant of this suhama crest that appears on this armour is ascribable to the Konuki clan of Mutsu Province.