Armor Collar

Bib-like, samurai, neck armor (nodowa). A flat, U-shaped, iron plate protects the sides of the neck. This plate is coated with red lacquer and has a decorative gold rim (fukurin). Orange silk lacing is attached to the ends and would tie to secure the neck armor. A two lame throat guard (tare) is attached to the U-shaped plate with an intermediate band of orange leather (komori-tsuke). Each iron lame is made up of many small, "true scales" (hon kozane) meticulously bound together to form a solid lame, first coated with red lacquer and then finished with gold lacquer. Lames are connected to one another with orange lacing in the kebiki-odoshi style. Aside from the lacing connecting the two lames, each lame is decorated with a row of tweed lacing above two rows of tweed cross knot lacing.