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The helmet of a silver suji-bachi (ridged bowl) with the hachimanza (decorative fixture at the central aperture) of six tiers, and with three shinodare (arrow-shaped decorative components placed between the plates) with gold edging, to the rear an agemaki-no-kan (ring to hold a decorative bow), wide mabisashi (brim) decorated with clouds in silver and chrysanthemum flowers in gilt, fukigaeshi (turnbacks) with gilt mitsu-aoi mon (triple ginger-leaf badges of the Tokugawa family), the maedate (fore-crest) of metal mitsu-aoi mon
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

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