kyrass
Kyrass, tilhører japansk rustning i eske med lokk.
Per Terje Norheim juli 2019
Do: (cuirass) mogami do hinged at the left side.
Kusazuri: (tassets) in four parts at the front, two on the side and two on the back, leather thongs, laced in green.
Kote: (sleeves) in plates and chain mail on brocade,
Sode: (shoulder guards) of laquered plates, green lacing, now mounted fixed to the do
Suneate: (leg guards) in 4 + 2 iron bands, fabric -matches the lower arms of the kote
Haidate: (skirt) of 4 lammelles with 9 plates in each, laquered brown
The armour is of munition quality, now with laquer peeling and generally in worn condition. It appears that all parts belong together with the possible exception of the mask. This is, however, something very often seen, a part which was damaged was replaced with another part without attention paid to details.
With the armour an armour box, gusoku bitsu, with a mon, a familiy badge of three rings set in a triangle with two stylised hawk’s feathers (takaha) in each. One ring with two such feathers is used by different families, the combination of three such rings seems unrecorded.
As the armour itself is devoid of any mon it is impossible to tell whether the box and armour belong together. When armour were sold by the thousands by the end of the 19th C dealers would just fill up boxes.