From ninja museums to hallowed samurai battlefields, here are the best sites to dive into epic Japan via the hit FX/Hulu series. Shōgun hit its stride right out of the gate when its first two episodes ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The History Museum of Mobile is excited to announce the next major exhibition, SAMURAI: Sunrise, Sunset, on view from September 27, 2024 through January 12, 2025. SAMURAI: ...

About 150 years ago, at the end of Japan’s Edo period, a civil war resulted in the end of the samurai culture and the birth of modern Japan. One rebel clan of samurai chose mass suicide. But in the ...

From 1603 to 1867, Japanese culture flourished and featured a unique and highly controlled system of gender dynamics. Japanese Traditional Theater, or Kabuki (歌舞伎), often exaggerated these dynamics ...

Japan has a proud history of anti-imperialist struggle. Samurai means “to Serve” and belongs to the warrior class of feudal Japan. The classes of Japan were based upon the caste system of India and ...

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 ...

A centuries-old samurai sword taken from Japan at the end of World War II by a Minnesota Army veteran is returning home. Sam Traxler and his girlfriend will return the sword this month to descendants ...

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 ...

LE CENTER — Jeff Traxler has long had collections of World War II and other military memorabilia, but a samurai sword he got decades ago in lieu of payment for construction work and displayed for ...