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Peculiar Helmet in the Shape of Bowl and Domaru type Armor Laced with Black Threads
Used by Kuroda Josui and Kuroda Mitsuyuki1688
Fukuoka City Museum
福岡市早良区百道浜3-1-1, Japan
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.
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- Title: Peculiar Helmet in the Shape of Bowl and Domaru type Armor Laced with Black Threads
- Creator: Used by Kuroda Josui and Kuroda Mitsuyuki
- Date: 1688
- Physical Dimensions: w33.6 x h33.6 x d19 cm(Helmet）
- Type: Armor
- External Link: http://museum.city.fukuoka.jp/
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