ō-yoroi
Sign in to saveAlso known as o-yoroi, oyoroi, o yoroi, ōyoroi, ō yoroi
thumb|A samurai wearing an ō-yoroi; two of the large skirt-like Commons:Category:Kusazuri|kusazuri can be seen—Ō-Yoroi had four kusazuri, unlike other armour of the era, which usually had seven kusazuri.
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Vinony's link graph records 178 inbound references to ō-yoroi, and connects out to plate armour, lamellar armour and Japanese armor.
It is catalogued under the topic Samurai armour.
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- Japanese armor
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thumb|A samurai wearing an ō-yoroi; two of the large skirt-like Commons:Category:Kusazuri|kusazuri can be seen—Ō-Yoroi had four kusazuri, unlike other armour of the era, which usually had seven kusazuri.
The is a prominent example of early Japanese armor worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan. The term ō-yoroi means "great armor".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ō-yoroi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.