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EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY), SIGNED MYOCHIN MUNESUKE A russet iron somen (full face mask) boldly modelled and made in three main pieces, a brow plate with bold crisp eyebrows and wrinkles hinged to the mask, the nose attached with turning pins, chin and cheeks well defined, applied with two odayori no kugi (cord hooks) beneath the chin, red lacquered interior, with two-tier yodare-kake (bib) of matching kittsukezane 8 ? x 6 ? in. (21 x 16.5 cm.) without bib
Michael Hogarth, Los Angeles, CA
Myochin Munesuke (1642-c. 1735), whose name appears on the lot here, aggrandized his lineage with the Myochin rekidai zofuku, a list of supposed ancestors tracing back several centuries. The Myochin flourished, founding branch schools in the provinces. By the middle Edo period, the Myochin were confident enough to style themselves as”On katchu no kiwame-dokoro, Nippon yuitsu no katchu no ryoko,” or “official appraisers of armour, the best in Japan.” There were successive generations of skilled armourers using the name Munesuke, though the work attributed to the first of that line may be considered the finest.