- XVI

AA-4

ferro, crine, pelle, seta, tessuti

Hotoke-do type armor. A large gold-colored dragon stands out on the armor; there is a helmet and neck guard, a mask with hair and protective elements for the legs and arms. The helmet is a Hoshi Suji kabuto with maedate mitsu kuwagata. A bowl (hachi) made of riveted segment-shaped plates with ribbed edges and spherical bosses, with rivets (shiten no byō) on the cap. On the top of the bowl there is a hole (tehen no ana or hachimanza) with a related ornamental ring (tehen no kanamono) with a floral brass decoration. On the back there is a flat plate decorated with a golden edge and a hook (agemaki no kan) with a related decorative knot (agemaki). There are shinobi no o, rope laces used to secure the helmet to the chin. The visor (maebashi) has five small pointed rivets and three larger flower rivets (sanko no byō). There is an iris petal motif decoration (shobu-gawa) with a worked leather insert and a blue, green, white and gold silk thread as a border and a twisted gold metal border (fukurin). Inserted into a kuwagatadai, riveted to the gilded metal visor to support the flat kuwagata horns with a vertical sword, gilded in the center of which is a tsunomoto (the additional maedate is missing). There are large fukigaeshi with an iris petal motif (shobu gawa) decoration, pointed decorative rivets, suede inserts and a crest (mon) of seven concentric circles within a larger circle (maru ni shichō丸に七曜), a crest that represents a five-pointed star in the form of a circle. Shikoro composed of three large lacquered lamellae, held together by red laces. The mask is a me no shita men, protecting the lower part of the face, with a horsehair moustache. Throat guard (yodare kake or tare) formed by four wavy lamellae held together by dark blue laces.