Armor (Gusoku), early–mid-19th century, Japanese and European, Iron, silk, copper, gold, Armor for Man, This armor reflects several waves of Western influence in Japan. The helmet, modeled on a late sixteenth-century Dutch cabasset, is by the Japanese armorer Saotome Iyetada, whose signature is found inside the bowl
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