Hat

Camp hat (jingasa) used by soldiers. This wooden hat is in the shape of a tall, rounded cone that gently flattens into a circular rim. The surface is covered in paper mache and the exterior is coated with black lacquer while the interior is coated with red lacquer. The interior is also spattered with gold lacquer. The edge of the rim is painted gold. A four-stage metal fixture (tehen-no-kanamono) sits atop the hat, each layer designed to look like chrysanthemum petals. A tan hat lining (ukebari) is intact. A simplistic, gold-painted crest of gentian flowers appears three times around the hat, likely the crest of the Minamoto family although it was also originally used by the Taira clan.