A munetori okegawa do tosei gusoku armour with an associated helmet
The helmet by Myochin Munenori, dated 1853, the do by Munetani, late Edo Period, 19th century
A twelve-plate low rounded suji kabuto signed Myochin Ki Munenori saku and dated Kaei rokunen mizunoto ushi hachigatu kichijitsu (a lucky day in the eighth month of the sixth year of Kaei [1853]), fitted with a modern three-lame komanju jikoro, the lower plate painted silver, the mabisashi and fukigaeshi covered in brown leather, mounted with silver-plated mon on the fukigaeshi, tehen kanamono and haraidate, on the front a silver-painted wood maedate with a gilt kirimon on the front, russet-iron hoate with yadome and a four-lame yodarekake russet-lacquered with the lower plate covered in leather and lacquered in silver and gold, the munetori okegawa do has the upper three plates on the front laced, the lower riveted and lacquered in russet with alternate bands of silver, signed on the inside Munetani, the black-lacquered iron kosode ikada gote karutagane haidate in leather, lacquered in alternate bands of silver and black and shino suneate, laced overall in white kebiki odoshi; with an armour box and a wood stand. The armour box 43.5cm x 43.5cm x 56cm (17 1/8in x 17 1/8in x 22in).
FOOTNOTES
白糸威桶川胴具足　銘「宗谷」　江戸時代後期（19世紀）
十二間筋兜　銘「明珍紀宗則作」「嘉永六年癸丑八月吉日」　1853年