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Samurai Exhibit: Philbrook Museum showcases 9 centuries of Japanese warrior armor

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 ...
Business Wire

EA Ships Samurai Warriors Videogame; Draw Your Kunai and Prepare to Fight in Some of the Fiercest Battles in Japanese History

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2004--Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS) announced today that the Samurai Warriors(TM) videogame is now shipping to retail stores. Inspired by the acclaimed ...
Wall Street Journal

The Samurai Way

Japanese samurai were known for their self-discipline and devotion—and they were also “Dressed to Kill,” the name of a new exhibit at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The show, running from Feb. 11 to May 7 ...
The Boston Globe

MFA’s ‘Samurai!’ captures the eternal warrior spirit

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, ...