首懸こうがけ

noun

leather strap across a horse's neck

Archaic term for a piece of horse tack; not used in modern Japanese outside historical or specialist contexts.

• 古こ文ぶん書しょには、馬うまの首こう懸がけの記き述じゅつが見みられる。

  Descriptions of a leather strap put across a horse's neck can be found in old documents.