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Black
Japanese
Helmet
-
underside
view
Description
H
:
13-1/4
",
W
:
12
"
Helmet
,
black
with
gold
5-petal
flower
emblem
,
red
underside
.
Japanese
helmet
of the
type
called
jingasa
,
Tokugawa
Period
.
Lacquered
wood
in
excellent
condition
.
During
the
Tokugawa
period
, a
key
means
of
social
control
were the
great
parades
of
warlords
and their
retainers
going
to and from the
capital
city
of
Edo
,
where
they were
required
to
spend
every
other
year
in
attendance
upon
the
Shogun
. These
“alternate
attendance”
(sankin
kotai)
processions
,
up
to
4,000
strong
in the
case
of the
Maeda
clan
, had the
effect
of
keeping
the
common
people
of
Japan
in
awe
of the
warriors
.
“Alternate
attendance”
thus
helped
keep
the
peace
,
something
that the
Shogunate
was
so
good
at
doing
that there was
no
war
for the
250
years
of the
Tokugawa
reign
. As the
Pax
Tokugawa
continued
on and on,
however
, the
Shogun
and his
retainers
became
warriors
who
never
went
to
war
. The
actual
ability
to
fight
thus
became
secondary
to
maintaining
a
fearsome
image
. As
Herman
Ooms
puts
it
in his
essay
in
Edo
:
Art
in
Japan
,
1615-1868
,
form
became
norm
, and
image
,
more
important
than
reality
.
It
is
just
this
process
that
transformed
armor
into
Art
.
Armor
in the
late
Tokugawa
Period
is
all
about
image
, a
point
quite
clear
in this
helmet
. The
helmet
purports
to be
covered
with
silk
that
parts
to
reveal
rough
steel
plates
held
together
with
large
,
round
rivets
. In
fact
, the
helmet
is
made
entirely
of a
thin
,
light
wood
covered
with a
layer
of
lacquer
and
gilt
.
Country
Japan
Historical Period
Japan - Edo-Tokugawa 1615 - 1868
Date of Content
18th
century
Related Record
soclaa000423
Type
still
image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
900
w
x
588
h
,
72
ppi
Permissions
Materials
may
be
used
for
educational
,
non-commercial
purposes
only
.
Acknowledgement
to be
given
to the
ASIANetwork-Luce
Asian
Art
in the
Undergraduate
Curriculum
Project
and to the
college
from
whose
collection
the
work
comes
. The
individual
college
retains
copyright
to the
work
.
IDEAS Collection
ASIANetwork-Luce
Asian
Art
in the
Undergraduate
Curriculum
Project
Institution Name
Berea
College
IDEAS Identifier
soclaa000424
Collection Editor
Kucera
,
Karil
Notes
Gift
of
Lucy
Titcomb
,
1973
Image preparator
Sonnichsen
,
Amy
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