Needing kabuto help

[atm]

Like others before me, I am looking for assistance with selecting a kabuto to display alongside my sword collection. I don’t know a lot about kabuto, and I don’t want to shift my focus of study away from nihonto to learn a lot about them. I’ll probably buy one kabuto and be done (famous last words). I’d buy yoroi but I don’t have room to display it. So, I’m looking for a solid example that will be for my enjoyment—not to please experts. Would this be a viable option: Iron 62 plate kabuto? I like its look, its condition, that it has a maedate, and it is papered. It is in my budget but I don’t want to overpay due to ignorance. Any guidance from the experts here is greatly appreciated.

[Bugyotsuji]

Assuming you prefer suji kabuto to koboshi kabuto, this looks like a good choice to me, seeing your parameters, and with papers, and not too expensive either. 

PS Ask them to throw in a kabuto stand for you.

[uwe]

Good kabuto, nice maedate! 
One of the two holes at the back is quite strange, though…

[kissakai]

Are the two holes missing their studs?

 

[Bugyotsuji]

One could be for an agemaki no kan... (?)

[Shogun8]

Agree with Uwe and Piers - decent kabuto.

[uwe]

8 hours ago, Bugyotsuji said:

One could be for an agemaki no kan... (?)

Or “kasa jirushi no kan” 

Sometimes they popping up at Yahoo, so shouldn’t be a problem to complete!

The second one is a mystery…

[Bugyotsuji]

Uwe, of course you are correct.

 

I needed to go back and check this and see why I used the expression 'agemaki' and discovered that although it originally meant the central fitment at the back of an old O-yoroi, in time it came to mean a metal fitment with a ring and hanging decoration anywhere on an armo(u)r.

 

'Kasa-jirushi' though is much more specific, indicating an attachment for an identfication flag to the kabuto. Thank you!

 

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[uwe]

Over time, this ring lost its purpose and later on you can find smaller agemaki attached to it every now and then. So nowadays actually a “agemaki no kan”, Piers