Ichimai Nerikawa kabuto Samurai Edo period 1603-1868 Origin Japan, antique artefacts : Samurai arts This is a superb kabuto is made traditionaly with one plates of nerikawa/ leather A single-plate boiled then black lacquered and gilded partially A kabuto with a detailed gilded hiramaki-e dragon in the clouds with two kamon on the mabisashi / visor. The shikoro protecting the neck is composed of five iron black lacquered innami-gaeshi shape with blue kebiki odoshi lacing. Note the folded fukigaeshi, it can move easier for use a long yumi bow. With A decorative horsehair on the tehen no kanamono . The owner of this kabuto was certainly an ARCHER in the last part of the Jidai period . Associated with a hanpo made in iron ,edo period, with lines yasurime . The yodare-kake is composed of three plates made in iron forged then black lacquered . New blue odoshi lacing in sugake . Good condition and patina with few cracks , according age . This is an antique kabuto Samurai . An ensemble with a rare nerikawa light kabuto with maki-e and hanpo . . . ( free worldwide shipping ). import taxes outside Europe are the responsability of the buyer