Original Japanese Edo Period Lacquered High-Domed Jingasa Helmet with Liner & Gilt Emblem Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets Serial Number: 103269

Serial Number: 103269

and definitely looks to have seen real service during the war

and leather

The barrel nocks form bears the correct London Proof House markings for the period: CROWN / V "Viewed"

Satere “Pete” Rallis of the 702nd Tank Destroyer Battalion

Original Japanese Edo Period Lacquered High-Domed Jingasa Helmet with Liner & Gilt Emblem Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets Serial Number: 103269Original 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