About    Inventory    Exhibitions    Publications  

   Contact 

Specialists in Fine Japanese Arms and Armour

suji kabuto

FULL SUIT OF JAPANESE ARMOUR

Age: Edo period. 18th century. 江戸時代 koki 後期

Japan: Iron, lacquer, silk, copper, gold

Provenance: Private collection in Japan

Status: Available 

Description:
A russet iron eight-plate suji kabuto with a silver zongan bonji inlay of fudō-myōō the deity of immovable wisdom and wraith. Silver gilded tehen-no-kanamono.  Shikoro [neck guard] of five iron lames lacquered in black urushi-nuri.  Fukigaeshi [turn backs] and kata-zuri-no-ita [lowest lame] are decorated in a red and black tataki urushi-nuri. Laced in blue silk on the sugake [spaced] odoshi style.

Inventory Number:
KAB-010