Saturday, May 18, 2013

Japanese Sode armour

I am currently working on a test sode (shoulder) armour. Many sode are made with horizontal plates laced together. I am doing what is called a Karuta tatami style. Karuta means small rectangular plates, and tatami means folding often seen with chain maille. Below is a pic showing the parts of a typical samurai armour from the time period of Tokugawa (1600's).




A typical sode. 



Here is a typical Karuta tatami dou (chest armour).



Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Japanese Happrui face armour

I finally finished my version of the Japanese Happrui face armour.

Here is a screen cap from seven samurai..



And here is my version..



My version prior to paint..