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A COLLECTION OF SAMURAI ART: THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
A KOBOSHI KABUTO [HELMET]
EDO PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY
SIGNED JOSHU JU SAOTOME IESADA
the sixteen plate
hoshi bachi, eight gilt
shinodare, riveted
mabisashi [peak]
, six-tier
itazane shikoro [neckguard] with
sugake-odoshi lacing, the
fukigaeshi [turnbacks] with applied
kikyo mon all lacquered black
Accompanied by a certificate of registration Juyo Token [Important Armour] by the Nihon Kacchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozon-kai [the Association for the Research and Preservation of Japanese Helmets and Armour].
Estimate
10,000
—
15,000
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