The British Museum’s wildly anticipated Samurai exhibition is now underway. And we are, safe to say, obsessed… While everyone ...
MISATO, Japan — Sparks illuminate the soot-covered studio of Japanese swordsmith Akihira Kawasaki as his apprentice hammers red-hot steel, showcasing a millennium-old craft now enjoying a resurgence ...
The Museum of Applied Arts and Design (Arsenalo St 3A, Vilnius) of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art opened an exhibition ...
The Okayama Prefecture city of Setouchi is famous for its olives, oysters, and Mediterranean climate, and the surrounding waters have come to be known as "the Aegean of Japan." Just look at 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 ...
: 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 ...
Click to open image viewer. “Shin gunto,” means “new military sword,” is an example of a mass-produced wartime ceremonial sword designed for general issue to Japanese officers and non-commissioned ...
Fittingly, The Japan Sword Museum sits amid the Kyu Yasuda Garden, a public park that once belonged to an 18th-century Samurai estate. Famous warriors during the country’s pre-Modern era, Samurai were ...
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 ...