Helmet with Phoenix and Battle-Axe Ornaments

1825-1875 (late Edo)

44.5 cm 54.8 cm 49 cm

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This helmet has an iron "hachi" of thirty-three riveted laminations, a "shikoro" of five plates laced in "kebiki" (spread hair) style with navy blue "ito doshi" laces, and axes as "yokodate" made from whale baleen. A Phoenix ("Ho o") serves as a "maedate;" one tail feather is...

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Bunkio Matsuki Sale, A. A. Gallery, New York, February 10, 1906, no. 257; Henry Walters, Baltimore, February 10, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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