Again, thanks to Debbie and Genie. Thank you for your suggestions. I will see if I can contact anyone at the Royal Armouries Museum at Leeds...
However, I have to say that I'm pretty sure we're not dealing with armor, lamellar or any other "formal" kind. And "we" aren't the Japanese pirates. For the military "grunts" of the time there seems to be a trend for padded/quilted cotton twill protective clothing. None of the pictures in General Qi's manual shows obvious armor on the infantrymen. The manual's title is Jixiao Xinshu (also Ji Xiao Xin Shu) or New Book for Effective Discipline (1561). I still haven't been able to get the pictures scanned. Again, thank. --Leslie Leslie Mundy, DCC Office Hours: M-W-F Noon-5:00 John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University Providence, RI Just think... "Somewhere a butterfly, dreaming that it is Chuang Chou, flutters its wings and creates a distant hurricane." http://NewMoon2000.tripod.com/oneway/indexnavigator.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
