KYOTO--Suits of samurai armor given to Malta as diplomatic gifts in the 19th century returned to Japan for repair work ahead of their exhibition at the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo.

This 19th-century Samurai armor contains a mempo, a face mask that, in addition to being decorative, would potentially have had a strong psychological effect on any would-be opponent.

A training text, used by a martial arts school to teach members of the bushi (samurai) class, has been deciphered, revealing the rules samurai were expected to follow and what it took to truly ...

Plus, there’s the nature of the works themselves — pieces of primarily ceremonial armor from the 19th century, when the samurai phenomenon was at the end of its roughly 700-year run.

Cincinnati Art Museum's "Dressed to Kill," on display through May 7, offers an up-close look at samurai armor, weapons and culture -- some pieces of which have never been displayed.

End of the Samurai: Stunning portraits of Japan’s warrior class captures men at the height of their power before 19th century demise The portraits are thought to have been taken in the late 1860s ...

Everett Kennedy Brown photographed descendents of samurai using 19th-century techniques. ... made of deer skin, silk or cotton that could be draped over clothes or armor. Video Ad Feedback.

"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 ...

If your primary familiarity with ancient Japan comes from popular culture, you probably associate it with the age of the samurai—a warrior elite class. While samurai's place at the top of society is ...

The Worcester Art Museum mixes historical artifacts with bizarre and beautiful modern takes on the samurai legacy in their new exhibit 'Samurai!' Find It / Boston. Doctors; Dentists; ...

19th-century samurai training text deciphered. By LiveScience. Published August 29, 2013 10 ... Print; Email; A photograph taken around 1860 showing a Samurai in full armor with sword.