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Kikko (Japanese armour)
are small iron or hardened leather, hexagon shaped armour plates used in the construction of Japanese armor worn by samurai and ashigaru (foot soldiers) of feudal Japan.
==Description and use==
''Kikkō'' refers to the shell of the tortoise or turtle which is formed from small hexagon plates.〔(''Sashiko: blue and white quilt art of Japan'', Kazuko Mende, Reiko Morishige, Shufunotomo, 1991, pages 22 and 30 )〕 Individual ''kikko'' armour plates were attached to armour by sewing the ''kikko'' to a cloth lining through holes drilled in the center or edges of the ''kikko''. ''Kikko'' could be sewn between two layers of cloth and hidden from sight. The kikko could be attached to each other by links of chainmail holes drilled in the edges of the ''kikko''. Kikko armor was made for every class of samurai or soldier, high or low.
George Cameron Stone〔George Cameron Stones, "A Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor: in All Countries and in All Times" p.150〕 referred to kikko as "brigandine" when he said "in Japan brigandines were often used". He further described this "brigandine" as "small hexagons", "the plates () of steel or hard leather", and that "occasionally they covered the whole body".
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