A Japanese Do-Maru Suit of Armor, Edo Period.
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Comprising an akoda-nari Kabuto (helmet), constructed of 32 vertical plates, an okina menpo (face mask), forged in two sections with a removable nose plate, the cheeks and chin with ori-kuge (hooks and pegs to hold cords), applied with a long animal-hair moustache, fitted with a lame yodarkake laced in the colour blue. The dou (main armor for the torso) with gilt metal mon/heraldic crests, Haidate with text to the front. Suneate with ribbons. kote and sode also laced in blue.
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Provenance
From the Collection of Johan Almqvist (1940-2024). Johan spent his early years in various countries and learned many languages thanks to his father, Karl Fredrik Almqvist (1906-1982), who was a Swedish diplomat. Johan had a passion for art and travel early on. In the early 1960s, as one of his first jobs as a free-lance journalist, he traveled to the Middle East where his interest in Persian ceramics and collecting started.
He then came to be based in Japan, still as a free-lance journalist for all the major Scandinavian Newspapers as well as Springer (Die Welt and Zeitung), Swedish Television, Svensk Radio and Radio Luxembourg. He covered a large part of Asia, including The Philippines, Korea, and Vietnam.
1974 he was hired by Beijer Invest to be based in Japan.
More information
Dō-maru (胴丸), or "body wrap", is a type of chest armour (dou or dō) that was worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. There were quite a number of similar styles and types of Japanese armor; the dō-maru is particularly defined by the fact that a dō-maru opens on the right side as opposed to the haramaki style, which opens in the back.