Kusari was typically made with rings that were much smaller than their European counterparts, and patches of kusari were used to link together plates and to drape over vulnerable areas such as the underarm.

Riveted kusari was known and used in Japan.

Links were either butted together meaning that the ends touched each other and were not riveted, or the kusari was constructed with links where the wire was turned or twisted two or more times, these split links are similar to the modern split ring commonly used on keychains.

Very few examples of historic butted mail have been found and it is generally accepted that butted mail was never in wide use historically except in Japan where mail ( kusari ) was commonly made from butted links.

In Japan, a form of hauberk called kusari katabira ( chain jacket ) was commonly worn by the samurai class and their retainers.

Tatami kabuto were made from articulated lames, karuta, kikko or kusari armours. Tatami kabuto did not use rivets in their construction ; instead, lacing ( odoshi ) or chain armor ( kusari ) was used to connect the various types of armour to each other.

According to George Cameron Stone, " Entire suits of mail kusari gusoku were worn on occasions, sometimes under the ordinary clothing ".

Antique Japanese gappa ( travel cape ) and cloth zukin ( hood ) with kusari ( chain armour ) concealed underneath.

There were lightweight concealable types of armour made with kusari ( chain armour ) and small armor plates such as karuta that could have been worn by ninja including katabira ( jackets ) made with armour hidden between layers of cloth.

Simple munition quality ( okashi or lent ) chest armours ( dou or dō ) and helmets ( kabuto ) were massed produced including tatami armours which could be folded or were collapsible. Tatami armours were made from small rectangular ( karuta ) or hexagon ( kikko ) armour plates that were usually connected to each other by chain armour ( kusari ) and sewn to a cloth backing.

The shikoro could also be made from panels of cloth with kusari sewn to the cloth ( kusari shikoro ).

In Japan mail is called kusari which means chain.

When the word kusari is used in conjunction with an armoured item it usually means that the kusari makes up the majority of the armour defence.

An example of this would be kusari gusoku which means chain armour.

Kusari jackets, hoods, gloves, vests, shin, shoulder, thigh guards, and other armoured clothing were produced, even kusari tabi socks.

this quote from the translated reference of Sakakibara Kozan's 1800 book, The Manufacture of Armour and Helmets in Sixteenth Century Japan, shows that the Japanese not only knew of and used riveted kusari but that they manufactured it as well.

Butted and or split ( twisted ) links made up the majority of kusari links used by the Japanese.

Ian Bottomley in his book " Arms and Armor of the Samurai: The History of Weaponry in Ancient Japan " shows a picture of a kusari armour and mentions kusari katabira ( chain jackets ) with detachable arms being worn by samurai police officials during the Edo period.

File: Kusari tabi. JPG | Edo period 1800s Japanese ( samurai ) chain socks or kusari tabi

File: Kusari katabira 6. JPG | Japanese Edo period mail jacket kusari katabira.

File: Kusari kote. JPG | Edo period Japanese ( samurai ) mail gauntlets kusari han kote.

File: Rriveted kusari kote. jpg | A rare example of Japanese riveted mail.

File: Kusari examples. JPG | Examples of Edo period Japanese ( samurai ) mail kusari.

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