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Japanese suit of armor with 'Nanban' (European) style breastplate, 16th-17th century AD
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The great Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga is often depicted in fiction as wearing one of these nanban-style breastplates because of his interest in European trade and artifacts. I don't know that there's any contemporary evidence for him wearing one, but it's an interesting bit of media trivia!