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Samurai dolls, helmets gain popularity with tourists
As Japan prepares to celebrate Children's Day on May 5, one of its long-standing traditions is taking on a modern twist and ...
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What Was Life Like for a Medieval Japanese Samurai?
For almost 700 years, these disciplined warriors were respected and feared in Japan, and they carved out a path that made ...
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Sandra Yagi’s bewitching ‘The Faerie Realm’ light-heartedly skewers human nature
The meticulously rendered oil-panel paintings of Sandra Yagi ‘s show The Faeire Realm (through May 1 at Modern Eden) combine ...
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A Blockbuster Exhibition on Samurai Reveals How the Warriors Dressed the Part
Samurai “clearly understood the functional requirements of armor,” Gabriel Barbier-Mueller, who with his wife, Ann, is the most important collector of samurai regalia outside Japan ...
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The most interesting facts about samurai that you never knew
Samurai are one of the most popular and recognizable types of warriors from history. Countless books, movies, and TV shows have been made around the hundreds of stories that revolve around the ancient ...