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Steel. Craft. History. Every object has a history.

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Japanese Sengoku Tosei-Gusoku

Examines late sixteenth-century bullet-resistant modern plates (tosei-gusoku) influenced by firearms and European trade.

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A NOTE FROM THE ARCHIVE

Legendary objects deserve
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We study materials, makers and surviving evidence. Legends open the question; history guides the answer.

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