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 ...

Starting Oct. 24, familiar drawings and paintings in six of the Georgia Museum of Art’s galleries will become overrun with armor and strong visual pieces that represent Japanese culture during the age ...

The North Carolina Museum of Art’s Samurai: Making of a Warrior exhibit blends art, culture and religion. With artifacts sourced largely from the Triangle, the exhibit explores the samurai world.

Faced with economic headwinds and changing visitor habits, London’s museums are reinventing themselves for new — and paying — ...

CINCINNATI -- "Dressed to Kill," the latest exhibit at Cincinnati Art Museum, offers an up-close look at samurai armor, weapons and culture -- and a good dose of Cincinnati history and trivia. The ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has announced that Commonwealth employees, as well as preschool and K-12 teachers of public and private schools will receive free ...

DENVER (CBS4) - The Denver Art Museum is celebrating a new exhibit that will show off ancient samurai armor and objects. Drummers demonstrated Taiko -- the ancient Japanese form of percussion at the ...

We don’t pay enough attention to armor. This is probably because it’s the part of the museum you visit to placate your bored nephew, because look at all those cool swords! But if fashion has revealed ...

“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 ...

Opening on Saturday, a new exhibition at the VMFA brings one of the world’s largest collections of Japanese samurai armor to town. “Samurai Armor from the Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller ...

In the popular imagination, Japanese samurai are sometimes portrayed as masterless wanderers. But even for them, 29,127 miles seems like a lot. That’s the distance that “Samurai: Armor from the Ann ...