. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . een firmly riveted down. Thebody armour consists of lames of lacquerediron, 2in. wide, laced together back (se-ita), with its tasset, isarranged to overlap the sides of the cuirassto allow of the armour being worn by astout man. At the neck is a plate oflacquered iron bearing an oblong copperplate, on which are set two small buttonsbearing a cross-shaped device, the Chinesefigure 10, possibly the sign of a Samuraifamily. The pauldrons bear the samebadge repeated several times. Thebrassards (kote) are formed of sm
. Inventory and survey of the armouries of the Tower of London . een firmly riveted down. Thebody armour consists of lames of lacquerediron, 2in. wide, laced together back (se-ita), with its tasset, isarranged to overlap the sides of the cuirassto allow of the armour being worn by astout man. At the neck is a plate oflacquered iron bearing an oblong copperplate, on which are set two small buttonsbearing a cross-shaped device, the Chinesefigure 10, possibly the sign of a Samuraifamily. The pauldrons bear the samebadge repeated several times. Thebrassards (kote) are formed of small,oblong plates, 2|in. by lin., joined together by links, thewhole mounted on a green velvet sleeve of recent date. Theback of the hand has the knuckles simulated in the metal,and the badge, which appears on the cuirass, is set in largersize on the left hand ; that on the right is missing. InHewitts time there was a tradition that this armour had beenworn by the Moors of Granada, and that it had come from the RoyalArmoury at Segovia. Hewitt, The Tower, JAPANESE ARMOUR (II, 128).
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