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12-Plate Hoshi-Kabuto (helmet)
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12-Plate Hoshi-Kabuto (helmet)

Culture
Datelate 1700s–early 1800s
Mediumiron and silk with lacquer and gilding
Dimensions5 lb 7 oz (weight)
ClassificationsArms and Armor
Credit LineThe John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection
Object number2014.713
DescriptionMultilame iron bowl of pronounced akoda-nari form. Spike headed rivets with rosettes; these are purely decorative, the structural rivets being flush (so technically this is a suji kabuto made to look like a hoshi kabuto). Eyebrow or horn motif embossed relief on peak. Peak has engraved brass edging on rim. 5 lame shikoro (nape defense). Brass mon and brass edging on fukigaeshi (wings). Brass tehen. Fabric lining still intact.
ProvenancePurchased by John W. Higgins on January 24, 1930 from Mortimer J. Downing, Upper Stepney, CN. Given to the Museum on July 1, 1954. Collection transfer from Higgins Armory, January 2014.
On View
Not on view
32-Plate Kabuto
Japanese
1500s
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Japanese
probably late 1500s
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Japanese
possibly 1600s
Higgins Photography
Japanese
late 18th–early 19th century
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German
about 1600–1620
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