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Other Types

  • Tatami-gusoku — Folding portable armour made from karuta armour (small square or rectangular plates)or kikko armour (small hexagon plates). Kusari gusoku (chain armour) is another form of tatami armour. Chochin kabuto (collapsible helmets) and hachi gane ( forehead protectors) that folded were also tatami armour.
  • Tameshi-gusoku — bullet tested armour
  • Okasi-gusoku — lending or borrowing armour or munition armour, usually made for ashigaru (it might be Tatami-do or any plain basic armour) often marked with clan insignia (mon).
  • Uma yoroi, horse armour used in the Edo period for parades.
  • Kusari gusoku Chain armour, armour made entirely of or the majority of the armour being made from kusari (chain mail) sewn to cloth.
  • Kigote, a general term for several varieties of kote extended or completed by the addition of erisuwari (padded collar), kara-ate (shoulder pads) and wakibiki (armpit protectors). Examples of the kigote are the kote haramaki (kote which covers the belly), tominaga kote (kote that connect to each other in the front and back), sashinuki kote (kote made in the form of a short jacket).
  • Katabira, armored jackets of various styles and sizes. Katabira were armored with kikko, hexagon armor plates, karuta, square or rectangular armor plates, or kusari, chain armor, or a combination of these armors.

  • Antique Japanese (samurai) Edo period karuta sashinuki style kote. Kote made in one piece in the form of a short Jacket.

  • Kusari and karuta katabira. An armored jacket made with over 2000 leather (nerigawa) armor squares connected to each other by chain armor (kusari) .

  • Karuta tatami gusoku.

  • Full composite suit of Edo period samurai chain armour kusari gusoku from the Return of the Samurai exhibit. The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 2010 Victoria BC Canada

  • Zunari kabuto with bullet marks from being tested (tameshi).

  • Uma yoroi/bagai, horse armor.

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