japanese armor

Any type of traditional Japanese armor, typically worn by samurai.

Examples

Related tags

• Kabuto (helmet)
• Shikoro (suspended neck guard on kabuto)
• Menpoo (half-mask)
• Nodowa (crescent-shaped gorget)
• Dou (breastplate or cuirass)
• Horo (balloon-shaped cloak attached to the back)
• Sode (pauldrons)
• Kote (vambraces)
• Kurokote (black kote)
• Kusazuri (faulds)
• Haidate (thigh guards under kusazuri/cuisses)
• Suneate (shin guards/greaves)

See also

• Japanese clothes
• Jinbaori (sleeveless jacket/vest typically worn over armor)
• Kataginu (similar to jinbaori but tapers over the shoulders, typically worn over a kimono)
• Waraji (straw sandals)
• List of armor
• Samurai

External links

• Touken World (JP): What is Japanese armor
• Wikipedia: Japanese armour
• Wikipedia (JP): Japanese armour

The following tags are aliased to this tag: japanese_armour and samurai_armor (learn more).

This tag implicates armor (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: dou, kabuto_(helmet), kote, kusazuri, menpoo, shikoro, sode, and suneate (learn more).