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 ...

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.

The exquisite armor on display in "The Samurai Collection ... twill scarf featuring a design by artist Aline Honor that pays homage to samurai warrior adornments from the 14th and 18th century.

The armor, also in a seated posture, was a faithful replica made in 1829 of the 14th century battle dress worn by the founder of the Hosokawa clan. It was a fitting launch for an exhibition ...

Late Muromachi to mid-Edo period, 16th–mid-18th century, iron, lacing, fur, gold, shakudō ... Samurai: Armor from the Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller is on view at the High Museum ...

"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 ...

A pair of 13th-century Samurai swords by master maker Bizen Nagamitsu (or, "Nagamitsu from Bizen province," active 1264-1287) is estimated to sell for between $150,000 and $200,000 at Bonhams ...

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.

Samurai armor is believed to have emerged from the dynastic culture which flourished during the 10th century. 02:21 Aoi Matsuri is held annually at Kamigamo Jinja, a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...

Way of the Samurai Warrior. Posted 10.09.07; NOVA; The samurai bible is an 18th-century book known as The Hagakure (Behind the Leaves). Scholars believe that a samurai-turned-Zen-monk named ...

Way of the Warrior. The samurai bible is an 18th-century book known as The Hagakure (Behind the Leaves). Scholars believe that a samurai-turned-Zen-monk named Yamamoto Tsunetomo dictated its ...