

Lot 59
A copy of a shokatsuki hachi Possibly Meiji Period
11 November 2010, 14:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street£1,300 - £1,500
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Possibly Meiji Period
The iron bowl exactly formed as a shokakutsuki helmet of the Kofun Period (5th century), purposely aged to give the appearance of an excavated example.
The iron bowl exactly formed as a shokakutsuki helmet of the Kofun Period (5th century), purposely aged to give the appearance of an excavated example.
Footnotes
倣衝角付兜 明治時代頃
Original examples of this type of helmet are very rare outside Japan. Another helmet thought to be a similar copy to this one appears in the 1913 Catalogue of the Doctor Mene collection, no.66.