Bamen Tomonari (active 18th century)


An iron hoshi kabutoEdo period (1615-1869), 18th centuryConstructed of eight russet-iron plates, each with seven rounded rivets, the helmet profile swelling slightly at the rear of the crown and with a medial ridge at the top of the front plate, the three-stage gilt-metal tehen kanamomo formed as a chrysanthemum, the wide mabizashi with two large standing rivets, signed horizontally across the front interior of the bowl Echizen no kuni Toyohara no ju Bamen Tomonari saku, fitted with a five-stage Hineno-style shikoro lacquered black and laced in blue, the bottom edge of the lowest lame trimmed in doe-skinWith Tokubetsu kicho shiryo (Especially Important Material) certificate no. 1672, issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozonkai (Society for the Preservation of Japanese Armor) dated November 12, 2017
|The front edges of each plate are scalloped, visible only on the interior of the bowl.