sode
Other names: 袖, 当世袖
Sode (袖) or tousei sode (当世袖) are the samurai armor's equivalent of pauldrons. They are are large, rectangular shoulder pieces made from overlapping iron and/or leather plates, tied together by leather cord.
Sode can be constructed to be relatively flexible or rigid and may cover the just the shoulders or most of the arm down to the elbow.
Examples
- !post #10973680
See also
- single sode
- pauldrons
- kusazuri, a similarly constructed skirt of lamellar plates covering the upper legs.
- samurai
- Japanese armor
- List of armor
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