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Description: | Breast plate of Japanese samurai armour. A picture was sent to Thom Richardson, FSA, who is a specialist of Oriental Armour and Weapons at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. His verdict is: "It looks, as far as one can tell from a photo, like the upper three plates of the breastplate of the nuinobe-do from a sugake odoshi tosei gusoku (sparsely laced modern armour). This style of solid plate harness was made from the late 16th century to the late 18th; compare examples in H R Robinson (ed) The manufacture of armour and helmets in sixteenth century Japan, Holland Press, 1963, pl. ix in the Manchester Museum from the Rev Richards collection, made in 1730, and in I Bottomley and J Hopson, Arms and armour of the samurai, London, Defoe, 1988, p. 113. As far as I can see almost all the lacquer is gone, and it is hard to tell what colour the lacing was originally (it looks cha-iro, 'tea coloured', but could well have faded). I would guess at mid Edo period, but it is difficult to be sure."
The finder said that it had more lacquer at first and the back was rusty. After discovery, he took it home, wrapped it in plastic and left in a shed for thirty years. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Boughton, Dot - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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