Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Yoroi 9
As for the skull, the board called Hagi-ita is joined with a rivet together. The shape of the rivet and size change by the age. There are the ika-boshi, the o-boshi, the arare-boshi, the nuka-boshi, the iga-boshi and so on. A rivet is exaggerated, and it comes to be called Ika-boshi-no-kabuto in the Heian Period middle (11th century).
Ornament in front of the skull is said as kuwagata. It looks like a shape of the hoe. Or, it is said that it is the shape of the plant of a kuwai, too. Early the kuwagata were parallel. It became a type V letter like a leaf of the kuwai from about the Kamakura Period end(14th century). It is fixed on the part which it is called Mabisashi. The part called kuwagata-dai is fixed first. Then, the kuwagata is fixed. It seems that generals liked this form.
