An Iron Ryubu-men Face Mask

LATE MUROMACHI PERIOD (16TH CENTURY), SIGNED GITSU

细节

An Iron Ryubu-men Face Mask
Late Muromachi period (16th century), signed Gitsu
The russet-iron mask forged in two sections and applied with vertical standing flanges on the cheeks, the nose plate hinged, chin with one cord peg
With a Koshu Tokubetsu Kicho Shiryo (First Grade Especially Important Material) certificate issued by the Nihon Kacchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozonkai (Society for the Study and Preservation of Japanese Arms and Armor), dated 1985.3.24

来源

Asano Seiichi, Tokyo

拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
Iida Kazuo, Kacchu men, mononofu no kaso (Armorer's masks, guise of the Samurai) (Tokyo: Token Shunshu shibunsha, 1991), no. 43.