Beschreibung:

A Mogami Do Suit of Armor with a Nanban Helmet The helmet Momoyama period (early 17th century), the armor Edo period (18th century) Laced entirely in purple with the cuirass lacquered black and the other components lacquered gold with the lower lames all trimmed in animal fur, with a russet-iron eboshi (bowl resembling a court cap) fitted with a narrow, flat brim running around the bottom decorated with applied iron scroll, plum blossoms and "rope" edging over the peak and around the brim, the sides decorated with Chinese lions in flush-inlaid silver, the front hammered with eyebrows below the peak, the bowl fitted with a five-lame solid-plate neck guard of false scales, mounted with a gold lacquer crescent-moon maedate ; the russet-iron face mask with deep wrinkles and lips lacquered red and teeth silver, fitted with a five-lame solid-plate throat guard; the cuirass a two-plate mogami do (constructed of hinged plates) with a raised medial ridge and with eight sections of five-lame solid-plate gourd-shaped tassets; chu-sode of solid-plate false scales laced in purple, white and orange; chain mail sleeves with splints and gourd-shaped forearm plates; chain mail and plate thigh guards; splint shin guards of russet iron; one storage box; no armor stand