Full samurai armor
Japan, Edo Period (1603-1868)
Iron, lacquer, silk, horsehair, iron
(Past accidents)

Nanban type kabuto engraved with two eyebrows and forehead wrinkles, shikoro with four blades, having presumably received a shock following the fight.
Mempo in black lacquered iron; gorget composed of three strips, moustache in horsehair.
Do in two parts covered with black lacquer, wakiita covered with red lacquer.
Kote with blue silk kusari, covered with iron mesh, iron hyôtan-gane.
Teko covered in black lacquer and decorated with Maru ni ki-kyô, secondary crest of the Ao-yama of Sasa-yama; the Hana-bishi, main crest of the Mi-yoshi and secondary crest of the Yanahosawa of Kôri-yama; the Kata-bami, main crest of the Fuji-tani, Iri-yé Matsu-bayashi, Ré-zé and secondary crest of the Shima-zu of Sado-wara; the Sakura crest of the Koide, Yamagata and Yoshida and another clan Mon.
Haidate in brown silk chikara-gawa, Ieji in green silk, Iyo in lacquer-covered iron.
Shino Suneate in silk, iron and leather.

As it stands.

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