Armor (Gusoku) armor, 18th century; helmet, 16th century; restorations, 2015 Helmet crest and restorations by Hiromichi Miura The breastplate of this armor is overlaid with a tooled, gilded, and painted piece of leather likely imported from Holland, reflecting the growing interest in European culture and goods in Japan in the eighteenth century, and the creative ways in which this interest was manifested in armorers’ art. Decorative European leather, often originally intended as a wall covering, was used to embellish a range of equipment, including sword mountings and equestrian Armor

Armor (Gusoku) armor, 18th century; helmet, 16th century; restorations, 2015 Helmet crest and restorations by Hiromichi Miura The breastplate of this armor is overlaid with a tooled, gilded, and painted piece of leather likely imported from Holland, reflecting the growing interest in European culture and goods in Japan in the eighteenth century, and the creative ways in which this interest was manifested in armorers’ art. Decorative European leather, often originally intended as a wall covering, was used to embellish a range of equipment, including sword mountings and equestrian Armor (Gusoku). Japanese. armor, 18th century; helmet, 16th century; restorations, 2015. Iron, copper, copper-gold alloy (shakud?), gold, lacquer, silk, linen, felt, leather, horsehair, doeskin. Armor for Man

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