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Armor (<i>Gusoku</i>)
Armorer Helmet bowl signed Saotome Ietada
Armorer Breastplate inscribed inside, Myōchin Munesuke
16th and 18th centuries
- Medium
- Iron, lacquer, silk, gilt copper
- Classification
- Armor for Man
- Dimensions
- H. 67 1/2 in. (171.5 cm)
- Culture
- Japanese
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
