"Japanese samurai armor mask "mempo",
with five-lame "yodarekake" (throat protection),
Edo City (now Tokyo) origin, 17th century."
2007
Dimensions: 45 x 43 x 48 mm
Materials:  Boxwood,black buffalo horn(Oryx gazella) inlay
USA, private collection.

 

 

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