A JAPANESE VERMILLION RED LACQUERED OYOROI SUIT OF ARMOUR WITH WHITE CORDS
A vermillion-red lacquered ōyoroi suit-of-armour with white cords (hi’urushinuri shiro’ito odoshi yoroi)
in the style of the Japanese Middle Ages (Heian-Muromachi Period).
Large eight plate sujikabuto-helmet with large back bending fukikaeshi, kuwagata-antlers and between
the antlers a gilded round maedate with the Oda'uri crest (a stylized musk melon flower) used by warlord
Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582). The fukikaeshi are decorated with ‘smoked leather’. The helmet has two
large neck-guards (shikoro). A red lacquered facial mask of an old man face with a separate noose piece
and a white moustache (resseibō) from which hangs a four-piece gorget (nodowa). Large eight-piece

ōsode with white cords and a red hem and yellow tassels protect the shoulders and Japanese mail (kusari)
together with vertical metal pieces over brocade the arms (shinokote).
A two-piece cuirass with horizontal itazane-metal lamellae (mogamidō). In front of the cuirass hang two
tassels and below a kusazuri-skirt in six parts, each consisting of five-pieces with white cords. The cuirass

has in front a large gold lacquered Oda'uri crest. Large haidate with laced red lacquered metal karuta-
plates protect the upper legs. The lower legs are protected with red lacquered three-piece tube-shaped

dōsuneate. With an bright coloured brocate waist-band. In a suit-of-armour chest decorated with the gold
lacquer Oda'uri crest.

Origin: Japan

Period: Taisho-Showa Period