**A JAPANESE ARMOUR (TOSEI GUSOKU), EDO PERIOD comprising associated fourteen-plate iron kabuto fitted with mabizashi inlaid in soft metal with the moon and clouds on the outside and lacquered red on the underside, moulded gilt tehen, shikoro of three lacquered iron lames, the uppermost with broad fukigaeshi, well modelled lacquered iron mempo fitted with a pair of pierced stylised ears, teeth, moustache, detachable nose and yodarekake of four lacquered iron lames, lacquered iron lamellar dô, kusazuri of five lames, a pair of ko-sode each of six lames, a pair of lacquered iron and mail kote, iron and mail haidate, and a pair of suneate (areas of wear and disarticulation) See note at front of catalogue for information concerning stands Provenance The kabuto, Mrs. Anna Matheson Wood, Miami, Florida, donated 3 April, 1952 JWHA Inv. Nos. 2989 and 3096