Six Pieces of Armour Underwear Handed Down by The Uesugi Family (Part I): Report on Costume Used by Uesugi Kenshin and Uesugi Kagekatsu (Part VI)

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  • 上杉家伝来鎧下着・着込み・頭巾等四領二個　上―伝上杉謙信・上杉景勝所用服飾類調査報告　六―

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Very little is known about actual examples of war costumes in the Muromachi and Momoyama Periods. A fortunate recovery in relation to this problem was that of a group of costumes in 1955 at Uesugi Shrine in Yonezawa. The group included eight jimbaori (formal coats worn on the battlefield), four shirts worn under the armour and two caps worn under the helmet. One of the shirts and one of the caps are made of ramie cloth and are covered with chain-mail. All the pieces are well preserved, offering valuable material for the study of war costumes of the period. The author has already made a report on the eight jimbaori in No. 259 of this journal and in the present number discusses the other six pieces. Two of the shirts, namely the blue ramie shirt with stencil-patterned design (Pls. I, II and IIIa) and the red crape shirt (Pl. IIIb; fig. 1), according to tradition, were used by Kagekatsu UESUGI (1555-1623), and the others are said to have been used by Kenshin UESUGI (1530–1578). The former two are a boy's size and therefore, if the tradition is right, they date back to the period from about 1567 to about 1572.

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