Suit of armour
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1700 - 1900
Materials
Brocade, Gold, Lacquer, Leather, Metal, Silk
Place of origin
Japan
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328772
Summary
A suit of Samurai armour consisting of a Helmet (kabuto), a mask (mempo), missing its nos, attached throatguard (nodowa), two shoulder guards (stode), a pair of sleeves (kote) a curiass (do), two sets of detached tassetts (gessen), thigh armour (haidate), shin guards (suneate) and sandles. Tosei-gusoko (composite).
Full description
Charles Paget Wade notebook number 368 The Green Room (1340945.3; SNO.MISC.959.3): 'Suit of Armour. Iron Helmet of 30 plates. Very wide wings & neck guard (the early tradition) crest & mask (sketch of detail here). HARAMAKI = horns to helmet. Body piece of a dark brown lacquer, horizontal plates with shaped edges. On breast plate a dragon with 3 claws in gold & red. Mail sleeves inset with gold plates pierced (sketch of detail here) apron of mail & rows of plates like buttons. Leg guards vertical plates gilded, linked together. Shoulder guards of gold lacquer. ‘Comb’ pattern (fr.another suit). Light ASAGI-ODOSI indigo braid to suit, green to helmet. Sword. Black lacquer sheath. KATANA = long sword. fr.Cheltenham.
Provenance
Purchased from Cheltenham (possibly one of the suits purchased from a gas fitter's shop). Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.