atm Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 Like others before me, I am looking for assistance with selecting a kabuto to display alongside my sword collection. I don’t know a lot about kabuto, and I don’t want to shift my focus of study away from nihonto to learn a lot about them. I’ll probably buy one kabuto and be done (famous last words). I’d buy yoroi but I don’t have room to display it. So, I’m looking for a solid example that will be for my enjoyment—not to please experts. Would this be a viable option: Iron 62 plate kabuto? I like its look, its condition, that it has a maedate, and it is papered. It is in my budget but I don’t want to overpay due to ignorance. Any guidance from the experts here is greatly appreciated. 1 Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 Assuming you prefer suji kabuto to koboshi kabuto, this looks like a good choice to me, seeing your parameters, and with papers, and not too expensive either. PS Ask them to throw in a kabuto stand for you. 2 Quote
uwe Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 Good kabuto, nice maedate! One of the two holes at the back is quite strange, though… 3 Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 One could be for an agemaki no kan... (?) 3 Quote
Shogun8 Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 Agree with Uwe and Piers - decent kabuto. 1 Quote
uwe Posted February 11 Report Posted February 11 On 2/11/2025 at 7:36 AM, Bugyotsuji said: One could be for an agemaki no kan... (?) Expand Or “kasa jirushi no kan” Sometimes they popping up at Yahoo, so shouldn’t be a problem to complete! The second one is a mystery… 3 Quote
Bugyotsuji Posted February 12 Report Posted February 12 Uwe, of course you are correct. I needed to go back and check this and see why I used the expression 'agemaki' and discovered that although it originally meant the central fitment at the back of an old O-yoroi, in time it came to mean a metal fitment with a ring and hanging decoration anywhere on an armo(u)r. 'Kasa-jirushi' though is much more specific, indicating an attachment for an identfication flag to the kabuto. Thank you! 具足櫓 －ぐそくやぐら－ 甲冑・鎧・兜・当世具足・戦国武将フィギュアのページ 1 Quote
uwe Posted February 12 Report Posted February 12 Over time, this ring lost its purpose and later on you can find smaller agemaki attached to it every now and then. So nowadays actually a “agemaki no kan”, Piers 1 1 Quote
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