Noguchi Tachibana "Description of Samurai Armor," 1818

1818. Japanese manuscript scroll illustrating Samurai Armor, pen and ink, on 10 sheets of mulberry paper, joined to form a scroll, , titled at first panel and showing the various accoutrements of armor, with textural annotations, nomenclature. 270 x 4200 mm. The scroll laid down on thin paper in part obscuring the profuse wormholes, rolled. Japanese manuscript scroll illustrating Samurai Armor, pen and ink, on 10 sheets of mulberry paper, joined to form a scroll, , titled at first panel and showing the various accoutrements of armor, with textural annotations, nomenclature. 270 x 4200 mm. "Noguchi was probably a samurai or armorer in the Tachibana Clan one of the feudal warlord clans that established itself around 1330. About 1600 after various feudal wars, they were forced to move to the far north west near Honshu.