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A kawari kabuto (exotic helmet)
- EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

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A kawari kabuto (exotic helmet)
EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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    $20,000 - $30,000

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Sale 2296
Japanese & Korean Art
24 March 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





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A kawari kabuto (exotic helmet)
Edo period (18th century)
A ten-plate silver-splashed iron kawari kabuto, the back rising in a form reminiscent of a tokan (Chinese crown-style helmet) into two pieces of warabi (edible young fern shoots), the front with embossed swirling eyebrows, with a narrow brim, the top plate of the shikoro of iron cut into a row of linked cloud shapes, with small fukigaeshi of cloud profile, the shikoro (neck guard) of five black-lacquered iron plates, a large gilt wood yokodate (side crest) of flames, and the gilt wood maedate (forecrest) in the shape of a drifting cloud with the Sanskrit character for Marishi ten (Skt. Marici), a guardian deity for the samurai

The helmet accompanied by a certificate of registration as Tokubetsu kicho shiryo (Especially important object) no. 1499 issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozon Kai (Japanese Armor Preservation Society), 2007.11.18

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