Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• costume • armor • Asian
art
*Work
Type [link]: •
armor (protective wear) • yoroi •
costume
*Title: Armor
(Yoroi)
*Creator
Display: unknown Japanese
*Role
[link]: creator [link]:
unknown Japanese
*Role
[link]: patron Qualifier:
attributed to [link]: Ashikaga Takauji
(Japanese shogun, 1305-1358)
*Creation
Date: yoroi: early 14th century; helmet:
mid-14th century
Extent [controlled]:
yoroi [controlled]: • Earliest:
1300 • Latest:
1330
Extent [controlled]:
helmet [controlled]: • Earliest:
1330 • Latest:
1370
*Subject
[links]: •
apparel • Fudo Myo-o (Buddhist deity)
• warrior • armor •
ceremonial object
Style [link]:
• Late Kamakura
Culture [link]:
• Japanese
*Current
Location [link]: Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York, New York, United States)
• ID:
14.100.121
Former Location
[link]: Shinomura Hachimangu (Kameoka, Kyoto
prefecture, Japan)
*Measurements:
95.3 x 55.88 cm (37 ½ x 22 inches); 17.3 kg (weight)
(38 lb. 3 oz.)
[controlled]: •
Value: 95.3 Unit:
cm Type: height
| • Value: 55.88
Unit: cm
Type: width | •
Value: 17.3 Unit:
cm Type: weight
*Materials
and Techniques: lacquered iron and leather,
silk, stenciled leather, copper-gilt
Material [links]: •
leather • iron • copper •
silk • lacquer Technique
[links]: • stenciling • gilding
Description: This
rare example of a medieval yoroi is characterized
by a cuirass that wraps around the body and is closed
by a separate panel (waidate) on the right
side and by a deep four-sided skirt. In use from
around the tenth to the fourteenth century, yoroi
were generally worn by warriors on horseback. This
armor was originally laced in white silk and had
diagonal bands of multicolored lacings at the edges
of the skirt and the now-missing sode (shoulder
guards). The colored lacings symbolized the rainbow,
which represented both good fortune and fleeting
beauty. The breastplate is covered with stenciled
leather bearing the image of the powerful Buddhist
deity Fudo Myo-o, whose fierce mien and attributes
of calmness and inner strength were highly prized
by samurai. The helmet, long associated with this
armor, dates from the mid-fourteenth century. This
yoroi is traditionally believed to have been
donated to the Shinomura Hachimangu, a shrine near
Kyoto, by Ashikaga Takauji (1305-1358), founder
of the Ashikaga shogunate.
Description Source
[link]: Metropolitan Museum of Art online.
www.metmuseum.org
(accessed 02 July 2004)
Required and recommended elements
are marked with an asterisk.
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