30 July 2014

Ming armours from military treatise 'Wu Bei Zhi (《武備志》)'

Ming armour
Lamellar body armour.
Ming Dynasty armour
Lamellar body armour.
Ming Dynasty Mountain Pattern Armour
Body armour in composite "mountain pattern" style.
Ming Chinese Armour
Lamellar body armour.
Chinese Lamellar Armour
Lamellar body armour.
Ming Lamellar Armour
Two lamellar shoulder armours.
Ming Chinese Lamellar Armour
Two lamellar shoulder armours.
Ming Chinese Mountain Pattern Armour
Shoulder armour and breastplate in the 'Mountain pattern' style.
Ming Dynasty Iron Armguard
Segmented metal armguards.
Ming Chinese Iron Armguard
Segmented metal armguards.
Ming Chinese Rattan Armour
Chi Teng Jia (赤藤甲).
Ming Dynasty Lion Armour
Tang Ni Kai (唐猊鎧, 'Lion armour'). A Tang Ni (唐猊) is a Chinese mythological beast similar to lion.
Chinese Hauberk
Gang Si Lian Huan Jia (鋼絲連鐶甲, lit. 'Steel wire chain armour' ) or mail shirt.
Ming Dynasty Paper Armour
Paper armour.
Ming Dynasty Paper Armguard
Paper armguard.
Various Ming Dynasty armours from Wu Bei Zhi (《武備志》), written in 1621. Since Wu Bei Zhi is a military encyclopedia that incorporated/copied from many earlier sources, it recorded a great variety of armour designs, from archaic Song Dynasty-style lamellar armours to the latest design.

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