A SO-FUKURIN SUJIBACHI KABUTO WITH MITSUDOMOE MON

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A SO-FUKURIN SUJIBACHI KABUTO WITH MITSUDOMOE MON Japan, 18th century, Edo period (1615-1868) The brown-lacquered fifty-two-plate iron bowl with raised ridges adorned with gilded copper applications (so-fukurin), topped by a five-stage gilt-copper chrysanthemum-form tehen kanamono, fitted with an agemaki-no-kan to the back, the mabisashi decorated with copper fukurin and below the copper kuwagata dai incised with scrolling foliage and pierced with an inome design at the top, framing the ken (sword) issuing from a vajra head, all flanked by gently upturned and pierced fukigaeshi centered by mitsu-domoe mon in lacquered gilt, all above the lacquer four-lame jikoro. HEIGHT 37 cm WEIGHT 2.5 kg This type of ridged helmet, called a suji-kabuto, was worn by upper-class samurai beginning in the Muromachi period (1392–1573). Bulbous at the back and dipping downward around the central opening at the top of the bowl, its overall shape is known as akoda-nari due to its resemblance to the akoda, a squash-like fruit. The ridges are covered with brass, a relatively uncommon embellishment. Museum comparison: Compare a closely related suji-kabuto, dated to the 18th century, 43.2 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 2018.833.12a–f.

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