Complete samurai armor, Iwai school - Japan - Edo period (1603-1868) - 17th century

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Complete samurai armor, Iwai school - Japan - Edo period (1603-1868) - 17th century

Name: Complete samurai armor, Iwai school - Japan - Edo period (1603-1868) - 17th century
Brand: Antikeo
SKU: N3K4QPP2LO
Price: 9980 EUR
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9.980 €

Period 17th century

Style Asian Arts

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Complete Samurai Armor, Iwai School
Japan, Edo Period (1603-1868)
17th Century
Iron, lacquer, silk

Suji-bachi-type kabuto, tehen carved with foliate motifs, hachi with thirty-two suji, shikoro with three blades, iron mabizashi covered with beige silk decorated with foliate motifs, crescent-shaped maedate bearing maru ni su-wama, mon of the Tsubo-uchi family.
Ryubu-type mempo, worn by noblemen – unwrinkled, bearing mzru ni mitsu uroko, mon of the Hira-no family; gorget composed of three lacquer lamellae.
Two-part do covered with black lacquer, oshitsuke no ita and wakilta covered with beige silk decorated with floral motifs, closing at the side. Navy blue silk kote decorated with houses, floral, and cloud motifs, with lacquer trim.
Kusazuri in textured lacquer composed of five strips, kanmuri ita covered in beige silk decorated with floral motifs.
Haidate with chikara-gawa in brown silk with geometric patterns, Ieji with foliate and floral motifs, Iyo in lacquer-covered iron.
Suneate in black lacquer.

Founded by the renowned gunsmith Iwai Yozaemon, who lived between the Momoyama period and the early Edo period, the Iwai school is considered one of the oldest gunsmithing schools in Japan.

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