Helmet
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Appearance | random |
Slot | helm |
AC | 1 |
Special | (none) |
Base price | 10 zm |
Weight | 30 |
Material | iron |
- For helmets in general, see helm.
A helmet is the least interesting of the four randomized helms.
This can be identified in a shop as it is cheaper than the other randomized helms.
Kabuto
Kabuto is the word that samurai use for the helmet. Samurai start off the game with this item identified.
Encyclopedia entry
The kabuto is the helmet worn by the samurai. It was characterized by a prominent beaked front which jutted out over the brow to protect the wearer's face; a feature that gives rise to their modern Japanese name of 'shokaku tsuki kabuto' (battering-ram helmet). Their main constructional element was an oval plate, the shokaku bo, slightly domed for the head with a narrow prolongation in front that curved forwards and downwards where it developed a pronounced central fold. Two horizontal strips encircling the head were riveted to this frontal strip: the lower one, the koshimaki (hip wrap), formed the lower edge of the helmet bowl; the other, the do maki (body wrap), was set at about the level of the temples. Filling the gaps between these strips and the shokaku bo were small plates, sometimes triangular but more commonly rectangular in shape. Because the front projected so far from the head, the triangular gap beneath was filled by a small plate, the shoshaku tei ita, whose rear edge bent downwards into a flange that rested against the forehead. [ Arms & Armour of the Samurai, by Bottomley & Hopson ]
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