JAPON, PÉRIODE EDO

COMPLETE NIMAI-DÔ TOSEI GUSOKU TYPE WEAPON comprising: . two-part dô breastplate, seven-panel kusazuri skirt and sode shoulder pads, all in black lacquered kiritsukekozane and laced in midnight-blue kebiki-odoshi, the sode with kanmuri-ita and accented with gold kanamono openwork with flowers and chrysanthemum leaves; . shinogote-type kote handles, with black plates and iron mesh on brocade; . Iyo-haidate haidate, gold-lacquered on a silk brocade background; . shino-suneate leggings . suji-bachi-kabuto helmet with twenty-eight brown-lacquered iron plates, crowned with a five-tiered tehenkanamono; shikoro with four black-lacquered plates, undulating edge, laced in sugakeodoshi, the upper plate bearing two large fukigaeshi; . Mempô reissei type in brown lacquered iron, red on reverse, with yodarekake with four straight strips. (not completely en suite; accidents, lacquer gaps, wear, dirt, missing mempô whiskers).