Description
28 plates russet iron Hoshi style helmet.
Signed Nanto ju Ienori saku.
The names of two owners of the helmet, Takatsuna Kamedashi and Takatsuna Moritomo are inscribed next to the signature.
Ienori: armor maker of the Haruta school influenced by the Kojima school of Kaga.
This helmet was exhibited in 1987 in the Art Museum of the Nara prefecture for the exhibition Nara Kachushiten (armor makers of Nara). Then it was acquired by the Nishimura Art and History Museum of the Yamaguchi prefecture (currently the Iwakuni Rekishi Museum of Art).
Publications:
– Shin Kachushi Meikan, Sasama Yohiiko.
– Nara Kachushiten, Musée d’art de Nara, 1987.
- Period
- Middle of Edo
- Signed
- Ienori
- Height
- 33 cm
