Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Yoroi 8
The skull
The skull is equipped with the shikoro. The shikoro defends a warrior's neck. It is composed by the sane. The shikoro grows big toward the bottom. The technology of the odoshi is being used for this, too. Both ends of the shikoro are open in the outside. This is said as fukikaeshi. The leather that a pattern was drawn is mounted that front. Metal for the decoration were fixed on that.This is said as suemon-kanamono. Ornament was put on in front of the skull. This is said as maedate. The leather that a pattern was drawn is said as kawa-dokoro. That pattern has many kinds. That is mounted many parts of the yoroi. Leather is mounted the tsurubashiri, the fukikaeshi, the reverse of the yoroi, the part of the metal for the decoration , and so on.
