A samurai armour

Description:

Japan, Edo period
Rüstung: H. 75 cm o. S. (119 cm m. S.), Helm: H. 20 cm
Kabuto: 62-plate suji-bashi, iron, signed Myochin Yoshi…, five-layered shikoro with binding in beige and red on a gold lacquer ground, mabezashi and fukigaeshi with fukurin, maedate in shape of a round metal disc.
Menpô of Nara type, russet iron, with moustache of animal hair.
Ni-mai yokohagi-okegawa dô of five plates with decorative rivets, attached four-layered kusazuri, odoshi: blue, kote of Shino type.
From an old Württemberg private collection, assembled between the 1950s and 2000 - Partly slightly chipped, traces of age and use