The Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armour
25 October - 2 November 2021 • London
1 A rare lacquer box | Signed Tamura Hisahide | Edo period, 19th century
2 A suzuribako [writing box] | Edo period, 18th - 19th century
3 A zaboshi kabuto [helmet with seated rivets] | Edo Period 17th - 18th century
4 A hoshi-bachi [helmet with standing rivets] and mempo [face mask] | Edo period, 17th century
5 An Iwai school daienzan suji-bachi [hemispherical-shaped helmet] | Edo period, 18th century
6 A hoshi-bachi [helmet with standing rivets] | Signed Munetsugu saku (made by Munetsugu) | Edo period, 18th century
7 An akoda-nari suji-bachi [helmet with raised ridges] | Edo period, 17th - 18th century
8 A suji-bach [helmet with raised ridges] | Signed Saotome Iesada | Edo period, 17th century
9 A hoshi-bachi [helmet with standing rivets] | Momoyama - Edo period, 16th - 17th century
10 A momonari kabuto [peach shaped helmet] | The helmet bowl Momoyama -Edo period, late 16th - early 17th century
11 A nimai-do gusoku [armour] | Edo period, 18th – 19th century
12 A hotoke-do gusoku [armour] | Edo period, 18th century, the helmet 17th century
13 A nerikawa nimai-do gusoku [armour] | Edo period, 18th-19th century
14 A nanban-do gusoku [armour] | The kabuto signed Saotome | Momoyama - Edo period, late 16th - early 17th century
15 A nimai-do gusoku [armour] | Momoyama - Edo period, late 16th - early 17th century
16 A nimai-do gusoku [armour] | Edo period, 17th - 18th century
17 A nimai-do gusoku [armour] | Edo period, 17th-18th century
18 A fine honkozane tachi-do gusoku [true lamellae armour with two-plate cuirass] | Edo period, 17th century
19 A nanban-do gusoku [armour] | The helmet signed Saotome Ienari | Edo period, 17th century
20 A Mori okegawa nimai-do gusoku [armour] | The helmet signed Joshu-ju Saotome Ietada (Saotome Ietada, a resident of Hitachi Province) | Edo period, late 17th century
21 A honkozane do-maru gusoku [armour] | The kabuto signed Yamato no Kami Nagakuni saku (made by Nagakuni from Yamaoto Province) | Edo period, 17th - 18th century
22 A nimai-do gusoku [armour] with a rare kazaori eboshi kabuto [helmet in the form of a wind-swept court cap] | Edo period, 17th century
23 A gusoku [armour] | The helmet signed Myochin Muneyuki | Edo period, 17th - 18th century
24 An iroiro-odoshi nimai-do gusoku [armour with variegated lacing] | The helmet signed by Myochin Nobuie (circa 1504-54) | Edo period, 16th century
25 A honkozane munatori do-maru gusoku [armour] | The mempo signed moto Munesuke shinzu Myochin Munetaka (Myochin Munetaka, based on a design by Munesuke) | Edo period, 18th century
26 A happuri [solid plate face guard] | 19th -20th century
27 A tengu men [face mask formed as a tengu] | Edo period, 17th century
28 A mempo [face mask] | Edo period, 18th century
29 A mempo [face mask] | Edo period, 17th century
30 A fine somen [full face mask] Signed Myochin Munesada Edo period, 19th century
31 A jingasa [war hat] | Edo period, 17th century
32 A jingasa [war hat] | Edo Period, 19th Century
33 A fine umiari suikan-gura [riding saddle with double register pommel] Signed Ise Suruga no kami Sadamasa saku (made by Ise Suruga no kami Sadamasa) and with kao Muromachi period, dated Kanoto hitsuji sangatsu hi (a day in March 1451)
34 A lacquer kura [saddle], the frame with a date of Koji ninen (1556) and a kao, and abumi [stirrups] ensuite | Edo period, 19th century
35 A pair of abumi [stirrups] | Signed Kashu Ju Kunihira saku (made by Kunihira, a resident of Kashu Province) | Edo period, 17th century
36 A yari [spear] | Signed Yashu ju Hosokawa Masanori saku (made by Hosokawa Masanori from Shimotsuke Province) | Meiji peiord, dated 1881
37 A sasaho yari [young bamboo leaf-shaped spear] | Signed Kanefusa | Muromachi period, 16th century, the koshirae 19th century
38 An Umetada yari [spear] | Edo period, 19th century
39 A tanto | Edo period, 19th century
40 A tanto | Edo period, 19th century
41 A tanto | Signed Izumi no kami Kunisada | Edo period, 17th century | the koshirae | Meiji period, late 19th century
42 A fine tanto | Edo - Meiji period, 19th century
43 An aikuchi tanto with ebi-kizami koshirae [sword mount in the form of a crayfish] | Signed Iwato Minamoto Kiyotaka | Edo period, 19th century
44 A tanto with cloisonne enamel saya [scabbard] | Meiji period, late 19th century
45 A tachi with cloisonné enamel scabbard | With signature Sadamune | Meiji period, late 19th century
46 A tanto | Edo period, 19th century
47 An Uda School tanto | Attributed to Uda Kuniyoshi and with kinzogan [gold inlay] inscription | Unotsu Muromachi period, circa 1430, the koshirae 19th century
48 A katana | Signed Tenmangu ni oite rokujunichi kyoku seishin kitae Yukihira kore o tsukru (made by Yukihira and forged to the most extreme purity for sixty days in Tenmangu) | Edo period, dated Genroku go mizunoe-saru nigatsu saijobi (an auspicious day in February 1692)