Property From a Private West Coast Collection

A purple laced okegawa torikoshi do gusoku
Edo period (17th-18th century)
The dark brown-lacquered two-plate momonari type helmet with two gilt-wood wakidate (side crests) of warabi (edible fern), the expansive mabizashi (brim) covered with dyed leather and with gilt fukurin, two-tiered itakozane shikoro (neck guard), the odoshi-sage type fukigaeshi with chuwa (circle) or janome (snake's eye) mon, iron hanbo (lower face guard) with lateral striations and applied umebachi mon, three-tier yodaregake (bib) of itakozane, the cuirass a black-lacquered iron yokohagi-type nimai okegawa do (two-piece cuirass formed of joined horizontal bands), mune-ita and torikoshi section (lower part with laced kozane) with purple kebiki odoshi kozane, seven-sectioned nine-tiered kusazuri (skirt) with purple lacing and red hishinui (cross-knotted edge lacing), shino-gote (splinted sleeves) with chuwa mon, gold-lacquered chu-sode, Etchu haidate, shino suneate (splinted leg guards)