Kenboro - Kakeboro

Japanese: 懸保呂 - かけぼろ
Kenboro - Kakeboro

...A bag-like cloth worn over the back of armor to protect against stray arrows or as decoration. Also written as "horo" or "horo", there are different types of horoginu (horoginu), kakeboro (kakeboro), horosashimono (horosashimono), and yahoro. Horoginu is a battle robe, and the Sandai Jitsuroku (Chronicles of Three Generations) tells us that in 870 (the 12th year of the Jōgan era), 1,000 lands of horoginu were prepared by taxation.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Kenborō" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…鎧(よろい)の背にかけて流れ矢を防ぎ,あるいは装飾にした袋状の布。〈母衣〉〈保侶〉とも書き,保呂衣(ほろぎぬ),懸保呂(かけぼろ),保呂指物(ほろさしもの),矢保呂の別がある。保呂衣は戦袍(せんぽう)であり,《三代実録》には870年(貞観12)に調布をもって保呂衣1000領を調製したことが伝えられている。…

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