Armor (Yoroi), Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and Armor
Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Iron, leather, lacquer, silk, copper, gold, pigments
Armor (Yoroi), Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and Armor
Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Iron, lacquer, leather, silk
An 18th century Japanese suit of armor includes small overlapping iron
plates that are held together by laces. It was made in imitation of
Japanese armor from the 12th–13th centuries.
Armor (Yoroi), Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arms and Armor
Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Iron, lacquer, leather, silk
An 18th century Japanese suit of armor includes small overlapping iron
plates that are held together by laces. It was made in imitation of
Japanese armor from the 12th–13th centuries.