A samurai armour

Description:

Japan, 19th c.
H. ca. 160 cm mit Kiste
Hineno-kawari kabuto, iron, with five-layered shikoro, maedate with maru-ni-futatsu mon. Menpô of Nara type, black lacquered iron, with moustache of animal hair.
Yoko-hagi-dô of seven red lacquered plates, the breast with jo-mon maru-ni-futatsu. All plates of the sode, kote, kusasuri, haidate, yodarekake of iron, lacquered black. Armour chest.
Old European private collection - Traces of age and use