Kawari hoshi bachi kabuto with previous attribution to the Saiga group of armor makers, 16th century
A heavy helmet bowl in the sabiji style with beautiful cultivated rust is made by riveting eight plates with the absence of tehen. Fukigaeshi are rather smaller in size, the two-piece shikoro is rather austere, without mimi ito, and is laced with dark blue odoshi ito cord. The very nicely dynamically shaped mabizashi is attached with brass rivets with rounded heads. Although the helmet is undecorated, without decorative fittings fukurin etc., it is made of very high-quality iron with a good patina and gives the impression of austere, stoic strength. The only decoration is the frontal maedate made of gilded wood, depicting a stylized Buddhist sword ken. It was not a decoration or a status symbol, but a practical, high-quality helmet from the times when armor was commonly used in real warfare and whose quality determined the life and death of its wearer.
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