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 ...

The traveling exhibit, “Samurai,” is a stretch for the Denver Art Museum; its massive array of vintage Japanese armor and various implements of death and oppression more the stuff of history museums ...

DENVER (CBS4) - The Denver Art Museum is celebrating a new exhibit that will show off ancient samurai armor and objects. Drummers demonstrated Taiko -- the ancient Japanese form of percussion at the ...

“Throne of Blood,” Akira Kurosawa’s eloquently stylized 1957 reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” as a 16th century Japanese samurai saga, hovers in the flushed, rosy atmosphere of a new exhibition ...

The North Carolina Museum of Art’s Samurai: Making of a Warrior exhibit blends art, culture and religion. With artifacts sourced largely from the Triangle, the exhibit explores the samurai world.

DALLAS – Gabriel Barbier-Mueller bought his first samurai armor about 20 years ago from an antiques dealer in Paris, sparking a fascination that helped him create one of the most significant private ...

We don’t pay enough attention to armor. This is probably because it’s the part of the museum you visit to placate your bored nephew, because look at all those cool swords! But if fashion has revealed ...

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 ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Gabriel Barbier-Mueller bought his first samurai armor about 20 years ago from an antiques dealer in Paris, sparking a fascination that helped him create one of the most ...

From left, Preliminary Cove (Raphael and Foot Soldier), Mirage Tales, No. 36, 2007, Paul Harmon, no media listed, Elias Derby Collection. Suit of Armor, 16th century, Moichin Family, steel covered ...

DALLAS - Gabriel Barbier-Mueller bought his first samurai armor about 20 years ago from an antiques dealer in Paris, sparking a fascination that helped him create one of the most significant private ...