Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba presented US President Donald Trump with a golden samurai helmet crafted by a company from his home prefecture in western Japan during his visit to Washington for their first summit on Friday, a Japanese government source said, Report informs via Kyodo News.
The idea stemmed from the popularity of the award-winning US television series Shogun, a Japan-set historical drama about a warlord, the source said. Trump is widely known to like the color gold.
The samurai helmet, measuring 57 centimeters wide, 81 cm high, and 48 cm deep, is priced at 168,000 yen ($1,100), according to its manufacturer, Ningyouno Hanafusa Co., based in Tottori.
Tomoya Hanafusa, the company’s president, said the firm received an order for a golden samurai helmet in November last year from the Japanese Foreign Ministry and was only told that the item would be given to a foreign VIP as a gift.
Hanafusa, who found out only a few days ago that the gift was for Trump, said he felt “extremely grateful and happy” that the present came from a company based in the prime minister’s native prefecture of Tottori.
