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

The Property of a European Collector

A Yokohagi okegawa-do gusoku [armour] 

Edo period, mid-18^th 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