For almost 700 years, these disciplined warriors were respected and feared in Japan, and they carved out a path that made ...

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 ...

The term "samurai" comes from the Japanese ... of the European arquebus and its armor-piercing bullets caused a revolution in warfare. The Japanese soon began producing their own firearms.

The samurai belonged to the intellectual elite of Japanese society and practiced ... has one of the most expansive collections of Samurai armor outside of Japan. It has only traveled 17 times ...

Medieval Japan may call to mind honorable sword-wielding samurai and stealthy ... In exchange, the Japanese sold raw materials including lumber and sulfur, some finished art objects such as ...

Kyushu is a region where the traditional skills of kenjutsu – Japanese ... of the samurai. He tries his hand at yabusame (horseback archery), visits a workshop of traditional samurai armor ...