JAPAN, 19th century

JAPAN, 19th century Armor (mounted on a padded mannequin) consisting of: a kabuto (helmet) with hoshi-bashi (protruding rivets) made of black-lacquered iron in a truncated cone shape (placed upside down on the mannequin), its two-tiered shikoro, a two-piece menpo (half-mask) with a horsehair mustache, two remaining (unbraided) plates from the gorget, a pair of six-tiered sode, black-lacquered and blue-braided, partial kote made of lacquered iron and chain mail, a breastplate (do) with large ir

Category

Asian art

Location

Lyon