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G42: Nanban Dogusoku Samurai Armor
Nanban Yoroi is a hybrid of European and Samurai style armor, introduced to Japan in 1647 by Daimyo Matsudaira Sadayuki of Shikoku. He was gifted a European cuirass by the Portuguese embassy, which arrived in Nagasaki of that year. Sadayuki quickly dispatched the cuirass to his katchû-shi (armorers), ordering them to refurbish it by fusing […]
