Original Japanese Edo Period Lacquered High-Domed Jingasa Helmet with Detached Maeda & Painted Triple Tomoe Mon Family Crest IMA Merchandise and membership endured for the

and membership endured for the remaining lifetime of the recipient

JUNE 24TH 1862

Year of Manufacture: Circa 1600 - 1610

which now no longer has its shoulder strap

Original Japanese Edo Period Lacquered High-Domed Jingasa Helmet with Detached Maeda & Painted Triple Tomoe Mon Family Crest IMA Merchandise and membership endured for theOriginal 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