Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Yoroi 17
Yoritomo Minamoto established a military family administration in 1192. 140 years are said as the Kamakura Period from 1192. The form of the Heian Period held good in the armor at the beginning of Kamakura shogunate opening. When an administration becomes stable, decoration is pursued with an armor gradually like industrial arts. And, rationality was pursued with an armor from the experience of the actual fighting to the details. The flower of the tree peony and a lion, Fudo-myo-ou, thunder God ,wind God or a dragon and so on was liked in the leather pattern as the characteristics of the Kamakura Period.
