Ô boshi suji bachi kabuto, Japan, mid-Edo period, 18th century Suji bachi helmet in natural iron with eighteen riveted blades. Hachimanza in patinated copper, probably yamagane. The kasa-jikoro shikoro consists of three dark nuri sabi-lacquered iron slats, laced with black sugake odoshi. Wide fukigaeshi covered with egawa (inden or printed buckskin) and adorned with a gilded copper mon of the maru ni katabami type (oxalis flower in a circle) Jomon of the Morikawa clan and kamon of the Tôdô clan. Myochin school. Height: 23 cm; width: 40 cm Missing ukebari (inner cap), recent shinobi no o (helmet cord).