samurai armors

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120 plate suji bachi kabuto. (ridged bowl) 1700 - 1800, 120 russet iron plates riveted vertically. Inscribed ‘Joshu (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture) Suifu ju Yoshihide Saku’. The armourer is not recorded, but was likely to be of the Myochin school, one of three main schools of armourers who worked in Joshu province. The fukigaeshi has round decoration in shakudo of stylised hollyhock leaves, the family crest of Tokugawa family, the samurai clan who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868. V&A Museum.
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ldmcphee: “Rare photograph of a true samurai, circa 1866. A year or two after this photograph was taken, the samurai were abolished, and with it the Japanese feudal system. Photograph by Felice Beato”
朧月象ヲ也 Oboro Tsukiyou o Nari
jibadojo: “ The Samurai Archer - 弓道 ”
Kusakabe Kimbei, pionnier de la photo au Japon
kusakabe kimbei, artiste photographe japonais
La FEMME SAMOURAI
VINTAGE PHOTO OF A FEMALE SAMURAI OR ONNA BUGEISHA
62 plate suji bachi kabuto with a rare construction method. The edges of the suji (raised ridges) have been doubled over and bent in an upside down u shape increasing the strength of each individual plate, this is the work of an unknown master armor maker, mixed-metal tehen kanamono, mabisashi and fukigaeshi edged with roped gilt fukurin, the five-lame Hineno jikoro of iron kiritsuke kozane russet lacquered and laced in dark-blue kebiki odoshi, and a gilt-copper nadeshiko (pink) mon.
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