Heroic legends collide with funky contemporary art in “Samurai!’’ a bravura exhibition at Worcester Art Museum that transports the fierce warriors into the 21st century of comic books, anime ...

Royal Ontario Museum researchers say that the 19th-century Samurai armor is made of lacquered iron, silk lacing, doeskin and engraved gilt copper. The decorations are colorful and carefully made.

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 ...