High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A kabuto is a helmet used with traditional Japanese armour as worn by samurai. It features a strong bowl, the "hachi", which protects the crown of the head, a suspended series of articulated plates to protect the neck, and often a crest of the clan. A kabuto was usually constructed from three to over a hundred metal plates, riveted together. The plates are usually arranged vertically, and radiate from an opening in the top called the "tehen" or "hachiman- za". The original purpose of the tehen was for the warrior to pass his top knot through. Although this usage was largely abandoned after the Kamakura- Muromachi period, the tehen remained as a feature of most helmets, and was decorated with a "tehen kanamono", or ring of intricately-worked, soft metal bands surrounding the opening of the tehen. The rivets that secure the metal plates of the kabuto to each other could be raised, creating a form known as "hoshi-bachi", or hammered flat, leaving only the flanges of the plates protruding, a form known as "suji-bachi

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