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Samurai Exhibit: Philbrook Museum showcases 9 centuries of Japanese warrior armor

The samurai belonged to the intellectual elite of Japanese society and practiced creative disciplines like calligraphy and poetry that often contrasted with the violent nature of battle. The warrior ...

The British Museum’s Samurai show proves the brush is mightier than the sword

A magnificent exhibition reveals how these fearsome warriors lived on, long after their fighting days were over ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This New Samurai Exhibition Will Challenge Your Understanding of the Japanese Warrior Class

Silk screens, women's firefighting robes and a Darth Vader costume are among the more than 280 unexpected items that are on ...

The British Museum’s enthralling samurai exhibition blew my mind

What does “samurai” conjure up for you? A virtuous Japanese warrior in immaculate armour, who’s scarily handy with a sword? That’s certainly what I think of, having lapped up Shōgun, the recent ...
The Stranger

Anatomy of a Samurai Warrior

Seattle 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 vital ...

Inside the British museum’s groundbreaking new samurai exhibition

Half of Japan’s samurai were women, groundbreaking new exhibition at British Museum says - ‘Samurai’ explores over a thousand ...

Samurai: A ‘blockbuster’ display of Japan’s legendary warriors

British Museum show offers a ‘scintillating journey’ through ‘a world of gore, power and artistic beauty’ ...
Los Angeles Times

Stunning samurai armor, bathed in red, on exhibit at LACMA

“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 new exhibition ...
KTLA

Samurai: Japanese Armor From the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Gayle Anderson was live in Los Angeles at ...
Gizmodo

And now, historical samurai armor built for a dog

Dogs have been used in military operations for centuries, but this outlandish suit of canine samurai armor from the Edo period is truly something special. Historically, there’s a loose precedent for ...
The Guardian

Samurai review: Japan’s lethal warrior class are shown in all their sexy, demonic glory

Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch Japan’s pre-modern warrior elite ...
The Northern Echo

The armour of fearsome elite Samurai warriors is on display in Durham

Today, Object of the Week visits the Far East for an item worn by warriors of an elite military class. OF all the icons of the Far East to have passed into Western popular culture, the samurai is ...