Mid Edo period Edo (1615 - 1867)
18th century
Samurai helmet designed as a court cap
This spectacular helmet is meant to reproduce the cap worn by shinto priests. Of unusual shape, it is built of five iron riveted plates, covered with a textured gold lacquer and embossed with a red “ken” on the back. On the front, a rare triple maedate is supported by three different tsunomoto (supports).
The shikoro is a rare kusari-shikoro made in three sections of chain mail under a wide black-lacquered plate moulded as a lotus flower that forms the fukigaeshi. The family crest (kamon) represents a Rinpo - a buddhist wheel of truth.
SKU: kab-1218
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