Armour
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1850 - 1899
Materials
Iron, lacquer, silk, shakudō
Place of origin
Japan
Collection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328750.1
Summary
Neck guard of wide, rounded shape (manjū shikoro), Japanese, consisting of three continuous plates of ‘cut-and-attached Iyo-style plates’ (kiritsuke Iyozane), i.e. made to look like a series of separate plates attached to each other with full lacing (kebiki odoshi) in blue, with two rows of cross-knots and variegated braid on the lowest row, finished in black lacquer with vertically striated texturing, with turned-back sections at the front (fukikaeshi) riveted to the upper plate, finished in the same textured lacquer and with a rim of shakudō (alloy of copper and gold), mounted with high-relief shakudō ornaments (kanamono) representing Buddhist lions (shishi).
Provenance
Purchased by Charles Paget Wade (1883–1956) from Wyndham Payne, 29 Portland Street, Cheltenham, 31 March 1943 (£6 for four dressed figures); given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor, 1951.