Peculiar Helmet in the Shape of Bowl and Domaru type Armor Laced with Black Threads

A replica of che helmet made in 1688 and used by Jyosui Kuroda ，the founder of Fukuoka Clan. Its humorous shape of a vermilion-lacquered cup represents a cup used in a tea ceremony to throw away used water and it is said to have scared people as "Jyosui's red cup" on battlefields.