Kawari Kabuto Tengu

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About US:

Our photographs are taken without retouching or photoshop to ensure that the customer can judge the reality of the object.

Thanks to a constant work directly with the best collectors, museums and galleries in Japan and friendship with them, along with a profit margin much lower than the European competition we can offer objects so that many people can choose to have authentic pieces with hundreds of years at more than competitive prices. After all, samurai art is our passion and we want to share it with the world.

About the Kabuto:

Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th century

Amazing piece of art worthly of the best museums in the word. The iron helmet bowl of exceptional quality and very rare representing a legendary animal, a Tengu, half bird half human.

These strange helmets called kawari were created for the great feudal lords and the most powerful daimyos to give fear to the opponents, undoubtedly this helmet was made for a member of very high class given the high cost that could represent to make it.. These pieces are almost impossible to get, even with a lot of money and much less in Europe, as they are usually kept by great collectors. This piece is a work of art from the middle of the Edo period. You can see the gilded interior with its headbands, a very rare leather work. also the details of the Tengu are spectacular. Eyes also with gold and a cross symbol in bronze. The shikoro is a traditional style nerikawa with some minor damage but overall the condition of this helmet makes it a great museum piece, undoubtedly one of the best pieces we have had.