An important partly gilded ōyoroi-style suit-of-armour with orange cords (kin’urushinuri odoshi yoroi)

An important partly gilded ōyoroi-style suit-of-armour with orange cords (kin’urushinuri odoshi yoroi). A thirty-two piece sujibachikabuto-helmet with large fukikaeshi with a small diamond shaped crest (yotsuwaribishi mon) of warlord Takeda Shingen over decorative ‘smoked leather’ and large kuwagata-antlers. Four-piece large neck-guards (shikoro). A black facial mask with separate nose piece (resseibō) with a five piece gorget (nodowa). Seven-piece shoulder-guards with orange cords (sode). The arm-guards are completely covered with small gilded metal strips and Japanese mail over brocade (koshinokote). A two-piece bucket shaped gilded cuirass with horizontal metal strips laced with orange cords (kirizuke kozanedō) and at the back a large orange tassel. From the cuirass hang six five-piece kusazuri. The cuisses (haidate) have gilded metal strips (above) and squares (below) with Japanese mail over brocade. The greaves have gilded vertical metal strips and mail (shinosuneate). In a box for a suit-of-armour (yoroibako).