Saotome Iyechika armor

[Tengu1957]

Edo period armor circa 1700
Papered Tokubetsu kisho
Saotome Iyechika , a highly regarded Saotome armor maker
62 plate Kabuto 
The armor is tetsu sabiji or russet iron
Came with two matching bitsu or armor boxes with leather cover 

Many thanks to Nick at Nihontoart.com for selling this to me

[kissakai]

That looks a splendid set of armour

 

[Anthony de Vos]

Exellent!

[YOJIMBO]

that's great, wow, beautiful. I have no words.    

[Gakusee]

Fully matched, kamons in place, great kabuto smith, in great state of preservation, koshu tokubetsu kicho paper - what more to wish for  Well done

[Anthony de Vos]

Hi!

 

What a coincidence! My brother Eric got a beautiful Gosoku in burgundy odoshi. The kabuto is also Saotome Iechika. The armor is papered by NKBKHK.  He is emigrating and plans to sell it.

 

Anthony

[uwe]

Are you running out of space Anthony 😉

[Anthony de Vos]

Hi Uwe!

 

I have no space but that is not the problem here. The armor belongs to my brother Eric He plans to emigrate and because of that sell the armor along with around ten Saotome kabuto and masks. I just posted it because just as Gary’s beautiful armor it’s crowned with an Iechika kabuto.

 

Anthony

 

[Luc T]

Iechika is a big name!   There is an Iechika on the cover of our Saitome book.    Fine & nice armor Gary!

[FrenchBreadPrime]

I really love the Maedate, the huge ears and horns always do it for me. Also, always good to see armors with Hanakami-bukuro, I feel like we don't see those that often despite the likely added utility. Even today, being able to pack the most things with you is so useful.

Great set!