Scholars agree that Japanese armour first appeared in the 4th century, with the discovery of the cuirass and basic helmets in graves. During the Heian...

hexagon shaped armour plates used in the construction of Japanese armor worn by samurai and ashigaru (foot soldiers) of feudal Japan. Kikkō refers to...

gusoku, "full suit of armour"), was a type of lightweight portable folding Japanese armour worn during the feudal era of Japan by the samurai class and...

Plate armour is a historical type of personal body armour made from bronze, iron, or steel plates, culminating in the iconic suit of armour entirely encasing...

Kusari katabira (Japanese: 鎖帷子; "chain + single-layer robe") is the Japanese term for mail armour. Kusari is a type of armour used by the samurai class...

Auxiliary armour in a set of Japanese armour are optional pieces worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan in addition to the traditional six armour components...

samurai armour. By the late Heian period Japanese lamellar armour developed into full-fledged samurai armour called Ō-yoroi. Japanese lamellar armour was...

chainmail). The part of armour on the hand is called the gauntlet, which is based on a French word. The following components of Japanese armour roughly match the...

reached Japan around the 5th century. These early Japanese lamellar armours took the form of a sleeveless jacket, leggings and a helmet. Armour did not...

of early Japanese cuirass constructed from iron plates connected by leather thongs. At the beginning of the Sengoku period Japanese armour typically...

components of Japanese armour worn by the samurai and ashigaru or foot soldiers of feudal Japan. The predecessor of the dō was manufactured in Japan as early...

mengu (面具), are various types of facial armour that were worn by the samurai class and their retainers in feudal Japan. These include the sōmen, menpō, hanbō...

History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan" p.88 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Japanese karuta armor. Anthony Bryant's online Japanese armour manual...

armour are mentioned in the ancient Chinese book of poetry, Shi Jing. Japanese (samurai) individual scales are called kozane. Japanese scale armour constructed...

term for the three armour components that protected the extremities of the samurai class of feudal Japan. Traditional Japanese armour had six main components...

Japanese riveted mail, round riveted rings. Examples of Edo period Japanese (samurai) mail kusari. Riveted mail and plate coat zirah bagtar. Armour of...

resembling laminar armour (e.g. Roman lorica segmentata) Kalantar (Russian: Калантарь): square plates embedded in mail, very similar to the Japanese karuta tatami-do...

for protection. Lamellar armour was supplemented by scale armour since the Warring States period or earlier. Partial plate armour was popular from the Eastern...

including naval armour, body armour, and vehicle armour. The first major application of armour-piercing projectiles was to defeat the thick armour carried on...

Munition armour (also "munitions-grade armour", "munition quality armour") was mass-produced armour stockpiled in armouries to equip both foot soldiers...

helmet first used by ancient Japanese warriors that, in later periods, became an important part of the traditional Japanese armour worn by the samurai class...

Generation and Deep Space Nine Keiko (film), a 1979 Japanese film Keiko, a kind of Japanese armour Keiko Fujimori, Peruvian politician and daughter of...

armored. Naval armour consists of many different designs, depending on what the armour is meant to protect against. Sloped armour and belt armour are designed...

Splint armour (also splinted armour, splint armor, or splinted armor) is armour consisting of strips of metal ("splints") attached to a cloth or leather...

body heat retention during the winter. Japanese armour Samurai, warfare and the state in early medieval Japan (Google eBook), Karl Friday, Psychology...

Property, Tokyo National Museum. Japanese attack ships Mongol soldiers, second version Mongol ships, second version Japanese armour ō-yoroi, National Treasure...

the resulting Japanese defeat prompted a series of complaints by the Imperial Army to incorporate improvements in future Japanese armour. This is the primary...

heavily armoured as later Japanese capital ships. Nevertheless, the Kongō class possessed significant quantities of armour, and were heavily upgraded...

Bōgu (防具, "armour"), properly called kendōgu (剣道具, "kendo equipment"), is training armour used primarily in the Japanese martial art of kendo, with variants...

Korean armour is armour that was traditionally used in ancient times by Koreans, those fighting in and on behalf of Korea, or Koreans fighting overseas...