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Extra layer of plate armour initially covering the belly. Often decorated. Worn as part of a cuirass. Faulds: Bands to protect the front waist and hips, attached to cuirass. Culet: Small, horizontal lames that protect the small of the back or the buttocks, attached to a backplate or cuirass. Arm: Couter or cowter: Plate that guards the elbow.
By the end of the Heian period, the Japanese cuirass had arrived at the shape recognized as part of iconic samurai armour. Scales of iron and leather, bound together by silk lace, were used to construct samurai armour. [6] The introduction of firearms to Japan in 1543 resulted in the development of a cuirass constructed of solid iron plates.
The Japanese cuirass evolved into the more familiar style of body armour worn by the samurai known as the dou or dō, with the use of leather straps (nerigawa), and lacquer for weatherproofing. Leather and/or iron scales were also used to construct samurai armours, with leather and eventually silk lace used to connect the individual scales ...
Tankō, worn by foot soldiers, and keikō, worn by horsemen, were both pre-samurai types of early Japanese cuirass constructed from iron plates connected by leather thongs. During the Heian period (794 to 1185), the cuirass evolved into the more familiar style of armour worn by the samurai known as the dō. Japanese armourers started to use ...
Cuirassiers (/ ˌ k w ɪr ə ˈ s ɪər / KWIRR-ə-SEER; from French cuirassier [1], 'wearing a cuirass') were cavalry equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols. Cuirassiers first appeared in mid-to-late 16th century Europe as a result of armoured cavalry, such as men-at-arms and demi-lancers discarding their lances and adopting pistols as ...
Pteruges of leather or stiffened linen are depicted at the shoulders and hips, emerging from beneath his cuirass. Detail of the Alexander Mosaic , a Roman copy of a Hellenistic painting. Pteruges (also spelled pteryges ; from Ancient Greek πτέρυγες ( ptéruges ) 'feathers') are strip-like defences for the upper parts of limbs attached ...
A tatami gusoku (complete suit of folding armor) includes a tatami dō or tatami katabira (jacket) and a tatami kabuto (helmet) chochin kabuto, [3] or tatami zukin (hood) or similar type of head protection along with the other related parts of a full suit of Japanese armour.
A typical 18th–century cuirassier wearing a cuirass.He might wear an iron skull cap under his tricorne.. Armour in the 18th century was minimalist and restricted almost entirely to cavalry, primarily to cuirassiers and, to a lesser degree, carabiniers and dragoons.