Scarlet & Burgundy & Black

Scarlet is the samurai lacing cord — the vivid brilliant red of the most immediately specific Japanese samurai armor element. Odoshi lacing: the odoshi (from Japanese: 威し — 'to overawe' or 'to threaten' — the most immediately specific and the most comprehensively Japanese-samurai-armor-lamellar-scale-connecting-silk-lacing-tradition-specific of any Japanese armament technique — the most specifically and the most immediately kozane-and-kikko-lamellar-scale-piercing-and-threading and the most comprehensively entire-samurai-armor-structural-integrity-silk-lacing-providing of any Japanese armament technique — the most directly and the most immediately colors-of-lacing-tradition-in-Japanese-samurai-armor: including the most immediately famous hi-odoshi — scarlet lacing — and the most specifically most-iconic and the most comprehensively most-traditionally-illustrious-samurai-armor-color of any Japanese armament lacing color tradition — with the most immediately famous examples: the most immediately 'Uesugi Kenshin red lacing armor' and the most comprehensively Takeda Shingen red armor traditionally-associated scarlet-lacing tradition) is the most immediately traditionally prestigious and the most comprehensively Japanese-samurai-armor-international-museum-collection-most-recognized of any Japanese armament decorative element — the specific vivid brilliant scarlet of the most precisely hi-odoshi — scarlet silk — lacing and the most immediately most-brilliantly-scarlet-specifically of any Japanese samurai armor lacing tradition being simultaneously the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively Japanese-samurai-armor-tradition-internationally-associated of any Japanese armament lacing color. Burgundy is the dō breastplate — the deep dark burgundy of the most immediately famous Japanese samurai armor element. Dō construction: the dō (from Japanese: 胴 — 'torso' — the most immediately specific and the most comprehensively Japanese-samurai-armor-torso-breastplate-tradition-specific of any Japanese armament element — the most specifically kozane — small scales — or kikko — hexagonal plate — lamellar construction and the most comprehensively urushi-lacquer-finishing-tradition-specific of any Japanese armor dō type — the most directly and the most immediately bengara — iron-oxide-red — and shu — vermilion-cinnabar — and most immediately kuromi — glossy black — urushi-lacquering-tradition-specific of any Japanese samurai armor dō surface finishing tradition — with the most immediately internationally famous dō examples in: the most immediately Tokyo National Museum collection; the Metropolitan Museum of Art Arms and Armor collection; and the most specifically Philadelphia Museum of Art samurai armor collection — the most comprehensively internationally most-important and the most immediately most-museum-collected of any Japanese armament type). Black is the kabuto helmet — the pure intense black of the most immediately famous Japanese samurai armor element. Kabuto helmet tradition: the kabuto (from Japanese: 兜 — 'helmet' — the most immediately specific and the most comprehensively Japanese-samurai-armor-head-protection-and-symbolic-identity-element-tradition-specific of any Japanese armament element — the most specifically hachi — bowl — and shikoro — neck guard — and the most comprehensively mabizashi — brow plate — construction-specific of any Japanese traditional helmet — the most directly and the most immediately most-elaborately-decorated-samurai-armor-element and the most specifically kuwagata — crescent-shaped-horn-front-crest — and maedate — front crest — tradition-specific of any Japanese samurai armor element — with the most immediately famous kabuto examples: the most immediately Uesugi Kenshin kabuto — Yonezawa City Uesugi Museum; the most specifically Date Masamune-crescent-moon-kabuto; and the most comprehensively Tokugawa-Ieyasu-kabuto-tradition-specific of any Japanese samurai armor helmet) is the most immediately powerful and the most comprehensively Japanese-samurai-identity-expressing of any Japanese armament element — the specific pure intense black of the most precisely multiple-coat-jet-black-urushi-lacquered and the most immediately most-brilliantly-polished-lacquer kabuto helmet being simultaneously the most immediately dramatically beautiful and the most comprehensively Japanese-samurai-armor-tradition-internationally-associated of any Japanese armament element color.