Japanese samurai armor is a crucial element of Japan’s rich warrior history, symbolizing the discipline, skill, and honor of the Samurai class. Unlike armor in many other cultures, Samurai armor ...

Japanese archery seems as far from Appalachia's intuitive ... I hurry past dozens of picnicking cosmopolitans. Men in full samurai armor are leaning against trees, eating apples.

Kyushu is a region where the traditional skills of kenjutsu – Japanese swordsmanship ... at yabusame (horseback archery), visits a workshop of traditional samurai armor, and learns the ...

Christie’s will auction a selection of Japanese arms and armor later this month, a collecting category the auction house has not ventured into since 2009. Twenty-four lots of centuries-old ...

The samurai belonged to the intellectual elite of Japanese society and practiced ... has one of the most expansive collections of Samurai armor outside of Japan. It has only traveled 17 times ...

Animals also featured heavily in depictions of Japanese samurai, who were required to master archery, swordsmanship ... samurai helmets and armor. The exhibition’s later galleries exemplify ...

In this case, it’s a Japanese identity being swept away by ... of a bow or in the ritual steps an archer takes entering the archery hall. The sound of an arrow hitting a target, the ruffling ...

(How samurai, statesmen, and scholars shaped the Japanese tea ceremony ... he had almost died when a bullet pierced his armor. Ashigaru, or foot soldiers, fire their tanegashima (arquebuses ...

Ten archers dazzled spectators at the Nikko Toshogu shrine during the autumn festival by performing "yabusame," the traditional Japanese horseback archery. Traditional Japanese horseback archery ...