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Is such a visor recommended for a Kabuto?
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 2:50 am
by jackchen
Please refer to my scribbling.
Did such face protection existed on a Kabuto?
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 4:59 am
by Jameson
I barely know anything about Japanese armour but there was a face plate seperate from kabutos that looks like that, I think on Effingham's site there is one on there.
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:02 am
by Mykaru
No.
It looks a bit like you've merged a happuri to the mabizashi. Happuri (forehead and cheek protectors) were fairly common but NOT mounted on kabuto.
Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:29 pm
by Ivo
Hello.
I´m not that much into Japanese stuff, but I seem to recall (from Stone´s "Glossary..." and Russell Robinson´s "Oriental armour", that is...my only real sources for oriental stuff) some kind of "folding helmet" with a happuri- like forehead and cheek plate with several lames articulated to it that cover at least the upper skull.
Regards
Ivo