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Nanban-dō
Uesugi Kenshin Nanban Armor: Heaven and Earth Model
- Armor Type
- Nanban-dō
- Attributed To
- Uesugi Kenshin Nanban Armor: Heaven and Earth Model
Source & Attribution
- Reproduction
- 甲冑工房 丸武
- Product ID
- [Y-003]
- Image Usage
- Used with permission
- Source
- 甲冑工房 丸武
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About This Armor Type
The nanban-dō (南蛮胴, "southern barbarian cuirass") adapts the European-style plate cuirass introduced to Japan through Nanban trade in the late sixteenth century. Its solid, often bullet-tested one- or two-piece iron breastplate was lighter and far more shot-resistant than laced kozane construction, and was typically mounted with Japanese sode, kote, kusazuri, and a kabuto. It represents the technical and cultural exchange at the close of the Sengoku period.
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