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, Modernist Manicures, Bombing Memorials—Best Art of 2013. Updated ... Shen offered to paint miniature copies of abstract paintings by star mid-20th century artists—Mark ...

"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 ...

Visitors to Durham University's Oriental Museum view the Japanese samurai armour. ... Firstly, we have a growing collection relating to Japanese 20th Century films, including posters and memorabilia.

Armor from the Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller" is on view Through Aug. 3 at Tulsa's Philbrook Museum of Art.

According to the seller, the armor hailed from around 1800-50 and was primarily used for ceremonial applications by the nineteenth-century equivalent of my favorite stock character, Hypothetical ...

In the 10th century samurai guarding the emperor and aristocrats began to wear colorful armor, reflecting the capital's elegance. High-ranking samurai practiced mounted warfare, shooting arrows ...