“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 ...
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 ...
ou enter the main chamber in the Ann and Graham Gund Gallery at Boston's Museum of Fine Art, and you feel as if you should get ready for war. To your right, a trio of fierce-looking, heavily armored ...
From the moment visitors enter the new samurai exhibition in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Resnick Pavilion, they’re overwhelmed by fanciful armor-clad warlords on horseback. “It’s like the ...
DALLAS - Gabriel Barbier-Mueller bought his first samurai armor about 20 years ago from an antiques dealer in Paris, sparking a fascination that helped him create one of the most significant private ...
Samurai at the British Museum: A triumph of style, sophistication and sword porn - 4/5 Samurai is a blockbuster show which ...
Silk screens, women's firefighting robes and a Darth Vader costume are among the more than 280 unexpected items that are on ...
A new genre in contemporary art, usually called "institutional critique," got started in the 1960s. It often takes dry, strident forms, as the term may suggest. But not in the case of "Lord It's the ...
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Rare samurai armor being auctioned off
Items from Japan’s warrior culture will feature in The Brush and the Sword: Lacquer and Samurai Art auction. The post Rare samurai armor being auctioned off appeared first on Talker.
Ancient Japanese warriors live and relive in front of people's eyes in films like The Twilight Samurai, The Last Samurai, 47 Ronin or even a more modern interpretation like Kill Bill. But even for the ...
Japanese archers clad in traditional samurai (Japanese warrior) outfits set to shoot at a target during an annual archery ritual (file pic) Dallas: Gabriel Barbier-Mueller bought his first samurai ...
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