Though their meticulously crafted battle armor and elaborate helmets shaped into utterly frightening countenances could fill ...

Awed by the West's military prowess, the Japanese went on to modernize their forces and did away with many of the samurai's special rights. Thus, the sword-slashing warrior of yore abandoned his ...

At HiSui Tokyo we offer instruction on the dignity, conduct and movement of the samurai. "The Sword of Doom" (1966) A ronin is walking through a pine forest. He shuffles forward using suriashi ...

NARA--Some of the finest swords of Japan’s feudal age are now on show ... to be the prototype of “katana” swords worn by samurai warriors at the waist during the Edo Period.

The character “katana" (Japanese samurai sword), in orange ... her “to play each and every shot for keeps like a samurai warrior in a fight.” He made the second stroke of the character ...

sword-wielding warriors often come to mind. This makes sense based on most Western popular culture, which equates samurai with warriors. In reality, however, the role of samurai in Japanese ...

Countless books, movies, and TV shows have been made around the hundreds of stories that revolve around the ancient warriors of Japan. While everyone knows about the samurai code, the swords ...

More about the life of Musashi and other samurai can be discovered at Shimada Museum of Arts, which houses exhibits on the history of Kumamoto’s warrior culture. In addition to being a sword ...