著者

北野 信彦 本多 貴之

雑誌

保存科学 = Science for conservation

巻号頁・発行日

no.53, pp.1-18, 2014-03-26

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Nio-do style suit of armor was a novel design suit of armor in the Momoyama cultural period(from the end of the 16th to the first half of the 17th century). Characteristics of this suit of armor are the appearance of a naked male body and flesh(skin)-colored coating. The present paper is a report on the observation and analysis of this flesh(skin)- colored coating and makie technique used to make the Nio-do suit of armor owned by Ichinomiya City Museum. Several elemental analyses including those using a microscope,PY-GC/MS and X-ray diffraction pattern,as well as cross-section analysis by observation were conducted on small pieces of coating layers. As a result,it was found that the flesh(skin)-coloredcoating is a mixture of white lead(2PbCO3・Pb(OH)2)and vermillion(HgS)to which dried oil was blended. As for the makie,small gold(Au)grains were used in the technique of hiramakie (Kodaiji makie)with harigaki and kakiwari, characteristic of makie of theMomoyama cultural period. In Japan,dried oil paint was first used in the Asuka-Nara period(from the end of the 7th to the first half of the 8th century),but its use was discontinued until the Momoyama cultural period when,according to old documents,oil painting technique was importedfrom Europe. Then,in the Edo cultural period,dried oil paint such as mitsuda and chang paint appeared. It is assumed that this oil painting material and technique was applied in making the flesh(skin)-colored coating of the Nio-do style suit of armor and that the makie technique was one that is characteristic of the Momoyama cultural period.