Original Japanese Edo Period Lacquered High-Domed Jingasa Helmet with Detached Maeda & Painted Triple Tomoe Mon Family Crest IMA Merchandise which now no longer has

which now no longer has its shoulder strap

JUNE 24TH 1862

Tropical [NSN 8465-00-935-6673]

Year of Manufacture: Circa 1600 - 1610

this certificate is one of very few surviving items referencing Gruver

Original Japanese Edo Period Lacquered High-Domed Jingasa Helmet with Detached Maeda & Painted Triple Tomoe Mon Family Crest IMA Merchandise which now no longer hasOriginal Item: Only One Available. A KASA () is any one of several sorts of traditional Japanese hats. Some types are amigasa, jingasa, sandogasa, sugegasa, and takuhatsugasa. Note that rendaku ("sequential voicing") causes kasa to change to gasa when it is preceded by another word specifying the type of hat: thus, JINGASA ( "camp hat"; helmet). These were issued to the lowliest soldiers of the Japanese War Lords (The Samurai). They were used by