Subject: 侍 samurai warrior
Culture: Japanese
Setting: Tokugawa shogunate, Japan 17th-mid 19thc
Object: 陣笠 jingasa 'war hat'
Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor *
"Hat (Jingasa) Lacquered papier-mâché, copper, silver, gold Edo period, late 18th-early 19th century
The samurai's hat (jingasa), usually made of lightweight material, was worn when traveling or in camp." ...
* Harwood 10
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