Korean leather armor
| Korean leather armor | |
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| Weapon type: | Protective weapon |
| Designations: | Korean leather armor |
| Use: | armor |
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Korea , armory |
| Distribution: | Korea |
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A Korean leather armor ( Kor. Gajuk gap-ot , or Pi-gap ) is a protection weapon from Korea .
description
A Korean leather armor consists of fabrics and leather . Square or rectangular panels made of leather are sewn onto an almost foot-long undergarment made of fabric, or riveted to the undergarment . The plates cover the neck area, shoulders, chest and back. They reach about to the thighs. The helmet belonging to the armor is also made of leather and is shod with metal parts for reinforcement. A neck protection hanging from the underside of the helmet consists of small leather flakes that are connected to one another. The leather that was used for this armor is actually too soft to serve as armor, so it has been hardened . This is done by boiling it in water, which makes it very hard and resilient.
This type of armor was worn exclusively by high officers, especially during the Imjin War ; ordinary soldiers usually had no access to any kind of protective clothing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Cameron Stone, Donald J. LaRocca, A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times, Courier Dover Publications, 1999, page 60, ISBN 978-0-486-40726 -5
- ↑ Turnbull, Stephen: The Samurai Invasion of Korea 1592-1598 , p. 21 u. 87. ISBN 978-1-84603-254-7 .
literature
- Sun Joo Kim, Marginality and subversion in Korea: the Hong Kyŏngnae rebellion of 1812 , University of Washington Press, 2007, p. 130, ISBN 978-0-295-98684-5