A hoshi-bachi [helmet with standing rivets] | Edo period, 17th century

The Property of a European Collector

A hoshi-bachi [helmet with standing rivets]

Edo period, 17^th century 

the Saotome school sixty-two plate iron bowl with standing rivets, terminating in a five-stage silvered, shakudo and patinated iron tehen kanamono, the iron mabisashi [peak] with hammered brow, small black lacquer fukigaeshi [turnbacks] with copper-gilt fukurin [ornamental border], black lacquered leater five-tiered itamono Hineno-jikoro [solid plate close-fitting neck-guard] with sugake odoshi [spaced lacing] in dark blue braid, the gold and black lacquered maedate [forecrest] in the form of a karashishi, this lot has an accompanying wood stand, but not the one illustrated in the photographs

The bowl to peak: 30 cm., 11⅞ in. 

The shikoro to peak: 37 cm., 14½ in.