{"title":"Taishō Series — Elite Class","description":"\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003etaishō\u003c\/em\u003e commanded. His armor had to be recognisable across a field — a banner as much as a defence — while still doing everything the professional's suit did. That double duty is the design problem this class inherits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaishō sets are our elite grade. Hand-forged scales (\u003cem\u003ekozane\u003c\/em\u003e) rather than pressed plate. Genuine lacquer. Silk lacing. The helmet becomes the centrepiece: a properly raised bowl, a crest mounted so it reads correctly from the front and from three-quarters, a neck guard that flares with intent rather than by default. Fittings are cast rather than stamped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe visible difference is symmetry and rhythm. Lacing rows land where the eye expects them, plate spacing repeats cleanly down the body, and the silhouette resolves from any angle. These are the things that reward close inspection, and they are why this class costs what it does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost sets here are modelled on a named commander — Oda Nobunaga, Yamamoto Kansuke, Sanada Yukimura, Mori Ranmaru. Full measured dimensions appear on every listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTypical delivery:\u003c\/strong\u003e about four weeks. Custom sizing adds roughly four weeks. \u003cstrong\u003eIntended use:\u003c\/strong\u003e display, ceremony, exhibition, photography, and respectful non-contact wear.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hojo-ujiyasu-samurai-armor-indigo-laced-full-life-size-set","title":"Hōjō Ujiyasu Samurai Armor — Indigo Laced, Full Life-Size Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eHōjō Ujiyasu ruled the Kantō plain from Odawara Castle and was known as the Lion of Sagami. In 1546 he broke a besieging army roughly ten times the size of his own with a night attack at Kawagoe — one of the three great surprise attacks of Japanese military history — and he spent the next twenty-five years holding the eastern provinces against Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is said to have carried scars only on the front of his body. Odawara did not fall in his lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe armor is built for a defensive commander rather than a cavalry charge: a dark lacquered cuirass with dense blue and white lacing, understated gilt at the edges, and a helmet with a laced neck guard that flares wide. There is nothing decorative here that does not also make the silhouette read at distance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKabuto with maedate crest and laced shikoro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMenpō face mask, red lacquered interior\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDō (cuirass) with kusazuri skirt panels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSode, kote, haidate and suneate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack lacquered storage box that doubles as a display stand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFit\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilt to fit wearers between 170 cm and 184 cm. Seated display height is 170 cm; the piece occupies roughly 70 cm across and 60 cm deep on its stand. If you fall outside that range, write to us before ordering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduction and delivery\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted to order and delivered in approximately four weeks. Comparable warlord reproductions from Japanese armories are quoted at four to sixteen weeks. Custom sizing adds roughly four weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIntended use\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisplay, ceremony, cosplay, photography, and respectful non-contact wear. This is a handcrafted reproduction, not protective equipment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARMOURBUY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53561171280012,"sku":"SWT-UJIYASU","price":5040.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/0889\/9980\/files\/hojo-ujiyasu-white-01.jpg?v=1787442373"},{"product_id":"oda-nobunaga-samurai-armor-black-lacquer-full-life-size-set","title":"Oda Nobunaga Samurai Armor — Black Lacquer, Full Life-Size Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe standard Oda Nobunaga set, and the one most people are actually picturing: black lacquer throughout, blue lacing, a tall forked crest at the brow, and none of the gilt of the premium configuration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobunaga's reputation rests on impatience. He adopted matchlock firearms in volume when older houses still considered them dishonourable, and at Nagashino in 1575 he used them to destroy the Takeda cavalry that had been the most feared force in the country. He was dead seven years later, betrayed by his own general.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack-lacquered plate, blue lacing across the skirt and sleeves, white horsehair at the neck. This is the working version of a famous man's armor rather than the ceremonial one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKabuto with kuwagata crest and laced shikoro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMenpō face mask, red lacquered interior\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDō (cuirass) with kusazuri skirt panels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSode, kote, haidate and suneate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack lacquered storage box that doubles as a display stand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduction and delivery\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted to order and delivered in approximately four weeks. Comparable warlord reproductions from Japanese armories are quoted at four to sixteen weeks. Custom sizing adds roughly four weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIntended use\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisplay, ceremony, cosplay, photography, and respectful non-contact wear. This is a handcrafted reproduction, not protective equipment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARMOURBUY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53561171312780,"sku":"JPA0001BJ0014","price":5440.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/0889\/9980\/files\/oda-nobunaga-white-01.jpg?v=1787442404"},{"product_id":"oda-nobutaka-samurai-armor-indigo-and-black-full-life-size-set","title":"Oda Nobutaka Samurai Armor — Indigo and Black, Full Life-Size Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eOda Nobutaka was Nobunaga's third son, and his life is a short lesson in what happened to the family after Honnō-ji. When his father was killed in 1582 the succession fell apart; Nobutaka backed Shibata Katsuie against Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Katsuie lost at Shizugatake, and Nobutaka was forced to take his own life the following year. He was twenty-five.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe armor is built in the Oda house style but in blue rather than the black of his father's sets — a distinction that would have read clearly on a field where everyone knew whose son he was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack lacquered plate through the cuirass with deep blue lacing at the skirt and sleeves, a forked crest at the brow, and white horsehair at the neck.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKabuto with kuwagata crest and laced shikoro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMenpō face mask, red lacquered interior\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDō (cuirass) with blue lacing and kusazuri skirt panels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSode, kote, haidate and suneate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack lacquered storage box that doubles as a display stand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduction and delivery\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted to order and delivered in approximately four weeks. Comparable warlord reproductions from Japanese armories are quoted at four to sixteen weeks. Custom sizing adds roughly four weeks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIntended use\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisplay, ceremony, cosplay, photography, and respectful non-contact wear. This is a handcrafted reproduction, not protective equipment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARMOURBUY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53561171345548,"sku":"JPA0001BJ0012","price":4740.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0787\/0889\/9980\/files\/oda-nobutaka-white-01.jpg?v=1787442439"},{"product_id":"sanada-yukimura-samurai-armor-crimson-red-full-life-size-set","title":"Sanada Yukimura Samurai Armor — Crimson Red, Full Life-Size Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eSanada Yukimura is the most popular loser in Japanese history. He held Osaka Castle against the Tokugawa in 1614 and 1615, built the fortification called Sanada-maru that broke assault after assault, and in the final battle drove a charge that reached Ieyasu's own command position before he was killed. The enemy chronicles call him the finest warrior in Japan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis colour was red — the whole Sanada contingent wore it, so that a unit charging out of Osaka was visible as a single moving mass. His crest was the rokumonsen, six coins, the fare traditionally placed with the dead to cross the river into the afterlife. It was not a subtle statement about how the campaign was expected to end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis set is red throughout: red lacquered cuirass, red lacing, black plate at the sleeves and skirt, and antlers at the brow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you receive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKabuto with deer antler crest and laced shikoro\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMenpō face mask, red lacquered interior\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRed lacquered dō (cuirass) with kusazuri skirt panels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSode, kote, haidate and suneate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack lacquered storage box that doubles as a display stand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eProduction and delivery\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHandcrafted to order and delivered in approximately four weeks. Comparable warlord reproductions from Japanese armories are quoted at four to sixteen weeks. 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