katchu Dou Help

[cglog254]

Hi all, I am back again with more questions! While working with the dou of this suit of armor, I noticed that the interior was lacquered with red byakudan-nuri and a number of spots appeared to have a much stronger gold lacquer, with some appearing more yellow and a couple sections which look like gold foil. Most of the armor components have byakudan-nuri on the inside, but the exterior is all black lacquer. I am wondering if anyone has any insights into why they would have put byakudan-nuri, and more importantly, kin-urushi (I think this is the correct term, please correct me if I am wrong!) onto only the interior of the armor. There were sections of the kote that had concealed gold foil. Is there significance in having gold on the inside of the armor or in certain places, or were there sumptuary laws or customs which prevented samurai of certain statuses from displaying their wealth? I believe the dou is Edo period from the kusazuri.

Please provide info on the interior decoration or the dou as a whole if possible! We are trying to figure out as much about it as possible.

[Yoshimune]

Personnaly i saw this on restored parts 

On your Edo period do .

may be restored too

Just my opinion

Edited March 16 by Yoshimune

[Yoshimune]

2 other possibilities  : byakudan-nuri is used so covered with lacquer (therefore reddish): on the kuzasuri plate the urushi layer being partially flaked the previous owner preferred to remove the entire upper one to make it cleaner therefore revealing the gold layer. or the entire top layer is simply completely gone naturally...