An impressive Yukinoshita-style samurai armor dating: 18th/19th Century provenance: Japan Iron, 24-plate suji bachi kabuto in black lacquer with Tehen Kanamono consisting of embossed and finished copper sectors. Mabezashi covered in light leather with embossed vine-shoots, beautiful, disc-shaped, gilded Maedate engraved with the Mon of the Tokugawa clan. Five-plate Shikoro in rippled black lacquer, laced with partly faded ribbons, smooth Fukigaeshi. Menpo of beautiful shape with removable nose-piece and mustachios only partly preserved, four-plate Yodarekake. Conspicuous red Do with riveted sides and back-piece consisting of vertical plates finished in black lacquer, gilded Agemaki no Kan and Gyoyo with Mon. Large, five-plate Sode with gilded and chiselled copper Kanamono decorations. Kote with mail and black lacquered iron plates with red cloth support. Kusazuri with five black-lacquered plate featuring Kon ito Sugake odoshi lacing like all the other parts of the armour. Haidate with plates, inside a small pocket which usually contained a spare string for the yumi (bow), black-lacquered iron Tsubo Suneate. Stand non included. A visually striking and captivating armor. height as shown circa 155 cm.