S eattle Art Museum's exhibit Gentleman Warrior: Art of the Samurai features a display of the armor of an 18th-century samurai. Though the function of this military equipment was to protect the ...

"Throne of Blood,” Akira Kurosawa’s eloquently stylized 1957 reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” as a 16th century Japanese samurai saga, hovers in the flushed, rosy atmosphere of a ...

Centuries ago, when swords and lances were the weapons of choice, no respectable warrior wore camouflage fatigues to blend in with his surroundings. Stealth wasn't in his vocabulary. In dueling ...

This Tengu armor from 1854 is made of iron, lacquer, fiber, bear fur, leather and feathers. An exhibition of some of the world’s finest samurai armor and weapons is at the Kimbell Art Museum in ...

Sotheby's London presents The Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armour on 11/2/2021 . View all auction details, and browse Sotheby's London lots on artnet. Price Database. 16 June 2024. Artists. Auctions ...

The post caption says Yasuke became a samurai — an elite class of warriors existing between the 10th and 19th centuries, according to PBS — within a year of arriving to Japan. Kollege Kidd is ...

Today, I got out my sons' miniature samurai armor (鎧 or yoroi) and helmet ... The unusual helmets started in the 16th century and were used to help high-ranking officials stand out in the fray.

Two pieces of 16th-century armor have been returned to the Louvre museum in Paris almost 40 years after they were stolen.. The Renaissance-era helmet and body armor were made in Milan and ...

Two pieces of 16th-century armor have been returned to the Louvre museum in Paris almost 40 years after they were stolen.. The Renaissance-era helmet and body armor were made in Milan and ...

Two pieces of 16th-century armor have been returned to the Louvre museum in Paris almost 40 years after they were stolen.. The Renaissance-era helmet and body armor were made in Milan and ...