Ikeda family zunari presentation

[Bugyotsuji]

2019年4月9日（火） 19:10

曹源寺に池田家ゆかりの兜を寄贈

岡山市中区にある岡山藩池田家の菩提寺曹源寺に、個人が所有する、池田家ゆかりの兜が寄贈されました。

岡山市中区円山の曹源寺です。
兜は、室町時代のものとみられ、額に大きく輝く、池田家の備前蝶の家紋は、持ち主がひとかどの人物であったことを表しています。
池田家の家臣の子孫で、個人でゆかりの品を集めている延原正さんが、原田正道住職に目録を手渡しました。
兜はケースに入れられ、曹源寺の本堂に飾られるということです。

http://www.rsk.co.jp/news/news_local.cgi?cat=1&id=20190409_4

Evening news, Sanyo Broadcasting, RSK 9th April 2019.

 

Our teppotai General Nobuhara owned this kabuto and has decided to donate it to the Zen Temple of Sogenji in Okayama. He had it X-rayed and the construction points to Muromachi, possibly connecting to Ikeda Tsuneoki who fought with Oda Nobunaga. In the beautiful gardens can be found some of the Ikeda family graves. He reckons that the temple needs to have a physical link with the Ikeda family, so this kabuto will go on permanent display there. (Sogenji is interesting as the Zen monks there come from all over the world. Worth a visit if you are ever in the area. How a Zen temple should look, really simple and natural, not all touristy and flashy like the ones in Kyoto.)

[Luc T]

Special shaped mabezashi Piers. Do you have better pictures?

[Bugyotsuji]

No, not right now, Luc. I have handled it but it was the sort of social situation where you are really only permitted to say 'ooh' and 'aah', so I did not ask to take shots of it. I expect more footage will come up. When it does I will post it here.

[Bugyotsuji]

Quick translation: 曹源寺に池田家ゆかりの兜を寄贈 Ikeda family memento gifted to Sogenji Temple

 

岡山市中区にある岡山藩池田家の菩提寺曹源寺に、個人が所有する、池田家ゆかりの兜が寄贈されました。
A privately owned artefact related to the Ikeda family has been presented to Sogenji, the family temple and final resting ground for the Ikeda family.
兜は、室町時代のものとみられ、額に大きく輝く、池田家の備前蝶の家紋は、持ち主がひとかどの人物であったことを表しています。

It is thought that this helmet is from the Muromachi Period. Large and shining on the forehead is the Bizen-Cho butterfly Kamon of the Ikeda family, showing that it must have been owned by someone of high rank.
池田家の家臣の子孫で、個人でゆかりの品を集めている延原正さんが、原田正道住職に目録を手渡しました。

Mr Nobuhara, descended from a high retainer of the Ikeda family and a collector of their artefacts, handed it over to the Head Priest Harada Shodo with an explanatory manuscript. 
兜はケースに入れられ、曹源寺の本堂に飾られるということです。

The Kabuto will be placed in a (glass) case and displayed in the main hall of Sogenji Temple.