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

Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch ...

Hisyo Ishida is looking at me with undisguised disappointment. I cannot blame him. His movements are sharp where mine are clumsy. His hair is pulled into a neat topknot where mine is flapping in my ...

The samurai are taking center stage in London, as the British Museum unveils its first major exhibition dedicated entirely to ...

Samurai at the British Museum: A triumph of style, sophistication and sword porn - 4/5 Samurai is a blockbuster show which ...

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.

Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa ‘s (“Wife of a Spy”) very first period film and most ambitious feature to date, “Kokurojo: ...

The sport of Yabusame dates back over 800 years, when samurai would practice it. KAMAKURA, Japan, May 13, 2010 — -- Mounted on galloping horses, archers race full speed down a narrow dirt path.

One of the most influential character archetypes in film history is adapting to contemporary social mores and finding new life on Japan’s screens big and small. By Gavin Blair By the time the samurai ...