A MYŌCHIN MUNETSUGU ARMOR WITH A TATEHAGI DŌ Edo period (1615-1868), 18th centuryProperty of various ownersA MYŌCHIN MUNETSUGU ARMOR WITH A TATEHAGI DŌEdo period (1615-1868), 18th centuryThe component parts lacquered black and laced in blue with orange highlights, the helmet a 32-plate russet-iron suji kabuto with a five-stage gilt-metal and copper chrysanthemum tehen kanamono, the three-lame shikoro laced in sugake style ending in large fukigaeshi decorated with printed leather, fusegumi, shakudō fukurin, star-shaped rivets, and gilt-metal heraldic crests of the Goshima clan, the mabizashi similarly decorated, the front adorned with a gold-lacquer maedate formed as a crescent moon; the Ryūbu menpō with a hinged nose plate and applied with flanges on the cheeks, fitted with a three-lame yodarekake; the cuirass a gomai tatehagi okegawa dō of russet iron with a medial ridge bordered by eight standing rivets, applied with ornamental rings below a section of printed leather on the munaita banded with a shakudō fukurin chiseled with scrolling vines, the straps protected by a pair of gyōyō, signed on the interior of the cuirass Ichiguchi Izumo Munetsugu and with a kaō, fitted with seven sections of five-lame kusazuri; chūsode with shakudō fukurin on the kanmuri ita; shinogote with gilt-metal Goshima crests on the tekkō; Iyo haidate; shino suneate and kōgetsu of leather and horse hair; with a purple wool jinbaori (surcoat) decorated on the reverse with the Goshima crest; with a large armor storage box; no armor standWith a Tokubetsu Kichō Shiryō (Important Armor Material) certificate # 1512 issued by the Nihon Katchū Bugu Kenkyū Hozon Kai (Society for the Study and Preservation of Armor), dated November 23, 2000None