Display, Stands and Banners

Everything that surrounds the armor. Stands and storage boxes, back banners, war fans, and the objects that turn a suit from a thing you own into a thing a room is arranged around.

Most of what is here solves a problem people only discover after the armor arrives. A full suit weighs twenty-five kilograms and does not stand up by itself. A helmet on a shelf looks like a helmet on a shelf until it is on a proper stand, at which point it looks like a helmet. And a sashimono banner takes up almost no floor space while doing more to change the character of a room than anything else we sell.

The banners in particular deserve a second look if you are not ready to commit to a full suit. A sashimono was how a commander read his own army — colour and crest identifying a unit across a field where nothing else could be told apart. Mounted on its stand, it is the least expensive way to put something unmistakably samurai into a space, and it reads correctly from the doorway.

Storage matters more than people expect. Lacquer dislikes direct sun and dry heat; laced cord dislikes damp. A closed box in a stable room will keep a suit looking as it did on arrival for decades.