Seattle Art Museum's exhibit Gentleman Warrior: Art of the Samurai features a display of the armor of an 18th-century samurai. Though the function of this military equipment was to protect the vital ...

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 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Samurai Warriors 5 is out in a few months, and much like every other game in the series that began in 2004 on the PS2, the trademark action of a lone ...

CINCINNATI -- "Dressed to Kill," the latest exhibit at Cincinnati Art Museum, offers an up-close look at samurai armor, weapons and culture -- and a good dose of Cincinnati history and trivia. The ...

: Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, UAB. Japanese prints of the 1960s and '70s. Some swords can have up to 40,000 layers of folded steel and take months to make, said Wood. "You start out ...

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.

ou enter the main chamber in the Ann and Graham Gund Gallery at Boston's Museum of Fine Art, and you feel as if you should get ready for war. To your right, a trio of fierce-looking, heavily armored ...

At first, they served the nobles. Then, they rose to become the nobility, with a style and culture that the rest of Japan emulated for centuries. The samurai created armor and weaponry that struck ...

Samurai Warriors 5 has just been announced, and it's not what we were expecting. Koei Tecmo is looking to refresh the hack and slash franchise, describing it as a "re-imagining". Despite having a '5' ...

In his late poem “Thermopylae,” the writer Raymond Carver tells of the Spartan soldiers who prepared to hold a mountain pass against the great Persian army of Xerxes. Before the battle these soldiers, ...

It's been seven whole years since the last mainline instalment in the Samurai Warriors series, and as far as we're concerned, 2014's Samurai Warriors 4 is still one of the best Warriors games on the ...