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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker;
Production Place: Japan; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1899; Classification(s): armour, helmet [HEN.M.468.1933]
Description: Sixteen plate skull of russet iron with small rivets with chrysanthemum washers (zaboshi) and roped flanges to the plates. The front, side and rear plates are broad, and have applied sword blades three at the front, one at the rear and sides, in copper alloy. At the front is a peak covered in stencilled leather bordered with a gilt copper fukurin. There is a chiselled brass holder for a maedate and kuwagata, with horns of gilt iron. At the sides are sprung lugs for further crest fittings. There is a shikoro of four plates, the top one of iron, the lower three of leather, lacquered black, kebiki laced with blue silk. At the front at either side the upper plate of the shikoro widens into a fukigayeshi, covered in stencilled leather, with a hishi mon of three diamons in blackened silver. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | armour Unknown helmet | Temporal: | name=19th century; start=1800; end=1899 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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