Armor from the Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller" is on view Through Aug. 3 at Tulsa's Philbrook Museum of Art.

To depict a well-rounded image of the samurai, the Edo-Tokyo Museum is hosting a special exhibition, which reviews their life and work through 200 exhibits including genre paintings, old ...

During the Edo period, male servants of the samurai wore the jackets. Gradually, merchants and wealthy farmers adopted the jackets, adding decorations and motifs that identified their occupations.

During the Edo period, married women dyed their teeth black to indicate their status as wives. An articulated dragon made of iron bends at almost every possible juncture. It’s dated 1713, and ...

Japan's Samurai art on show. Published 15 years ago. 2min. New York - The world's most comprehensive collection of armour, ... The collection from the Edo period (1615-1868) ...

These delicate yet powerfully evocative images are the fullest expression of the Edo period (1603 to 1868), when the Japanese aesthetic focus on art and natural beauty achieved full flower.

This Tengu armor from 1854 is made of iron, lacquer, fiber, bear fur, leather and feathers. An exhibition of some of the world’s finest samurai armor and weapons is at the Kimbell Art Museum in ...

ITAMI, Hyogo -- Haiku poems, correspondence and artwork by Edo period poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) have been newly discovered in several areas across ...

Warning: this article includes spoilers for Blue Eye Samurai. Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai is an anime series set during the opening decades of Japan’s Edo period (1603–1867), also known as the Tokugawa ...