menpo

[Michel Lavigne]

hello, I'm trying to post a photo ......

and I can't .......

[Michel Lavigne]

the photo of the menpo of my armor on which is attached the label that I posted in photo.

[Luc Taelman]

A fine menpo as we can expect from Yoshiomi.
The label confirms :’Yoshiomi menpo’ and 江戸時代 edo period.

[Michel Lavigne]

hello Luc, thank you for your time. I couldn't find a signature on the metal of the menpo, but there is this label and the quality is there. I will post the photo of the armor on which is the menpo. cordial greetings, Michel

[Piers Dowding]

The label says 水戸 Mito, but that implies Edo Period.

[Michel Lavigne]

Hello, thank you, it dates from the edo period? that's it? because that's what it seemed to me ... my difficulty is that I have to use the machine translation which may not necessarily be very accurate ..., I posted a photo of the armor ...

[Luc Taelman]

Michel, we see no armor?
(on ne voit pas l'armure?)

[Uwe Sacklowski]

Hi and welcome Michel!

Yup, we roughly can put his creative period in the mid 19th century.
He was employed as an armorer by the Mito-Tokugawa in 1844. Beforehand, in 1834, he became “yagura-dōjin” (more or less a policeman in service of the bakufu).

Nice mask!

[Michel Lavigne]

Thank you for these details, UWE, but the menpo is not signed, there is just this label ..... The quality is there ....

[Uwe Sacklowski]

It seems to be a well made ryubu-menpô. Very likely late Myôchin school.....so why not?!