APPRAISER: This is a Japanese russet iron helmet, a kabuto, called a southern barbarian helmet or Namban helmet. GUEST: Mm-hmm. APPRAISER: Made in Japan in the late 18th or early 19th century.

Baseball star Shohei Ohtani, wearing his signature samurai “kabuto” helmet, made the nine-member ... Ohtani, who became the first Japanese player to win the American League home run crown ...