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A BLUE LACED OKEGAWA NIMAI-DO GUSOKU (ARMOR)

Lot 110
20.09.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
Starting price
$ 50 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 813524
Lot 110 | A BLUE LACED OKEGAWA NIMAI-DO GUSOKU (ARMOR)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 70 000
A BLUE LACED OKEGAWA NIMAI-DO GUSOKU (ARMOR)

EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), HELMET SIGNED NAGAMICHI

Helmet [kabuto]:

The helmet of a sixty-two-plate iron koboshi-bachi (helmet bowl with small standing rivets), with shibuichi, shakudo, gilt and copper six-tier hachimanza (decorative surround to the aperture at the crown), the shakudo kuwagata-dai (fixture for two gilt horns) pierced with chrysanthemum and support for the gilt maedate (fore-crest) of janome-mon (family crest of snake eye), wide mabisashi (brim) and fukigaeshi decorated with six shibuichi yahazu-mon (family crest of arrow), with shibuichi nawame (barleycorn twist edging); the bowl signed Nagamichi



Neck guard [shikoro]:

A two-tiers iron shitsuke-zane (laced plates simulating individual lamellae) manju-jikoro (rounded neck guard)



Face mask [menpo]:

The black lacquered iron ressei-men (fierced expression type face mask) with mustache, applied with two odayori no kugi (cord hooks) and a asenagashi-no-ana (drain) beneath the chin,, red lacquered interior, with three-tier lacquered iron yodare-kake (bib)



Cuirass [do]:

The lacquered iron yokohagi okegawa nimai-do with seven five-tier lacquered leather kusazuri (skirt), two hinged gyoyo (breast pendants) with matching family crests, applied with gold lacquer rims and shibuichi mounts



Sleeves and shoulder guards [kote and sode]:

The iron gaku-sode (shoulder guards) with inlaid silver bishamon kikko pattern with two-tier shitsuke-zane (laced-plates simulating individual lamellae), applied with shibuichi mounts, with hyotan-kote (sleeves with gourds) with iron kusari (chain) and matching family crests



Thigh protector and lower leg guards [haidate and sune-ate]:

The itazane haidate (thigh protector) with lacquer plates, the lacquered iron sanmai-zutsu sune-ate (lower leg guard), tateage in blue kikko (turtle shell) lacing with iron plates inside



Accessories:

A wood armor storage box

Accompanied by a certificate of registration as Juyo bunka shiryo (Important cultural material) no. 396 issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozon Kai (Japanese Armor Preservation Society), dated 1992.3.8





Provenance

Mori Family of Saiki Clan, Oita Prefecture, by repute



Literature

Katchu bugu juyo bunka shiryo zuroku henshu iinkai, ed., Katchu bugu juyo bunka shiryo zuroku: dai yonshu (Armor as important cultural material: volume 4) (Tokyo: Nihon katchu bugu kenkyu hozon kai, 2004), ill. p. 23.



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Historical era:Edo period
Place of origin:Eastern Asia, Japan
Auction house category:Armour
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