Shoulderguard, part of a suit of Japanese armour. [El.B 12/4/2007]

Collection type: Object
Description: Shoulderguard, part of a suit of Japanese armour. [El.B 12/4/2007]
Long description: Consists of gold lamellae with white silk lacing. Backed with a triple layer of textile, sacking-like material between two layers of blue textile. [El.B 12/4/2007]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector Edbert Ansgar Hewett; PRM source Hereford City Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1850
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Metal, Material Lacquer Varnish, Material Silk Yarn Animal, Material Textile, Process Lacquered Varnished, Process Braided, Process Perforated, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Length: max 280 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.1.376.8
Research and responses: The following notes are drawn from research compiled by Andy Mills as part of the DCF Cutting Edge project in 2006-2007. This is a partially complete armour that is showy and modern. It is probably parade armour of the early Tokugawa period. A gold-lacquered maru ni-mai-do (clamshell armour of kozane lamellar construction) hinged in two pieces, and laced in white high-quality kebiki-odoshi. The kusazuri, however, are cut and lacquered from a number of kiritsuke kozane - large single plates that mimic this construction, as are the sode. [SM 09/05/2008]

Search