Oki-Tenugui Kabuto

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This is an interesting helmet type whose top plate extended rearward into a tail. There was a slight gap between the rear skull plates and the top plate which allowed some ventilation-very important in the humid climate of Japan.

The helmet shown is embellished with a number of design options, including 5-lame shikoro (skirt), 3-lame nodawa (throat defense), barred hoate menpo that is removeable via a hitch pin/spring snap arrangement, a removeable tengu "mask", flanged edges to the shikoro and nodawa plates, lacing holes, lacing (synthetic), removeable fukigayeshi (temple wings), embossed "eyebrows", decorative "rising sun" washers under the rivet heads, and Mirror Black powder coating.

See the kabuto Before Powder Coating











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