Helmet, Kawari kabuto

Helmet, Kawari kabuto six-faceted iron helmet, conical shape called Kaki-nari

Provenance: Christie’s London sale, June 7, 2000, lot 17

Height: 24 cm
Width: 32 cm
Depth: 32 cm

JAPAN, XVIIIth century. Kawari helmet, kabuto with six-plate russet-iron bowl of the conical form usually described as kaki-nari [persimmon shape]the suji [flanges] engraved with a rope effect and a row of zaboshi [rivets with washers at the base] down the center of each plate, with a simple tehen-kanamono [fitting in the top of the bowl] in iron, brow-plate cusped over the eyes with narrow shakudo fukurin, embossed with eyebrows and wrinkles, black-lacquered iron Hineno-jikoro [close-fitting neck-guard] with mid-blue lacing in sugake [spaced] style, to the rear of the bowl a black-lacquered leather ushirodate [crest] now missing