Armor (<i>Gusoku</i>)
18th century
Medium
Iron, lacquer, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), silver, silk, horse hair, ivory
Dimensions
as mounted, H. 58 5/8 in. (148.8 cm); W. 18 3/4 in. (47.6 cm)
Classification
Armor for Man
Culture
Japanese, Toyohara, Echizen province
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Etsuko O. Morris and John H. Morris Jr., in memory of Dr. Frederick M. Pedersen, 2001
Accession Number
2001.642
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Bamen Tomotsugu · 1701–1800
**Bamen Tomotsugu** (1701–1800) was a distinguished Japanese armorer and the last great master of the Bamen School, active in the Echizen province at Toyohara (present-day Fukui Prefecture) during the eighteenth century. The Bamen School itself traced its origins to the turbulent late sixteenth century, with a legendary connection to the Honda clan, for whom early masters reportedly crafted except...