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Shoulder Guards, Kyo-Kinko
Two menuki in solid gold, each a large shoulder guard, an osode. The plates are drawn as rows of small scales held by lacing. A crossed band runs over the top, and a cord curls away at either end. There is no warrior. The armor lies on its own, slightly folded, as if just taken off.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art notes that large square sode are the earliest form of shoulder guard used in Japan. On a sword of the Edo period they point back to an older armor than its owner would have worn.
The NBTHK attributes the pair to Kyo-kinko, the metalworkers of the capital, names the subject osode and gives no maker.
Menuki. Mumei, Kyo-Kinko. Kin-muku, katachi-bori. Osode-zu. Edo-Zeit. NBTHK Hozon. Privatsammlung, erworben in Europa, zuvor in einer europäischen Sammlung.
In the collection
- Type
- Tosogu › Menuki
- School
- Kyo-Kinko
- Period
- Edo-Zeit
- Material
- Kin
- Motif
- Gegenstände
