Samurai Exhibit

perkinke

big chunks

That's awesome

perkinke

The craftsmanship and ornateness of the armor and helmets was just astounding. There was one set where you could see scoring from a blade slash and three dents where the wearer had been hit by musket balls. Dented the armor but did not damage the decorative facing.

big chunks

I picture the art of war, especially the poetic beauty of it, the honor of fighting and the respect of defeat even though they died it was honor of family/clan of it

onestrangeone

I am fascinated with this kind of stuff and history in general.

LiquidChaos66

I am jealous!!!! I wanna see that exhibit so bad!

perkinke

clearlysuspect

Love the bunny slippers!!!

BigM60

Thanks, Perkinke for the Samurai Exhibit post, Purchase (Art/Armor) Book at the on-line Museum Gift Shop, Please (pm) me photo's.......Thank-You

Amos Umwhat

Nice exhibit! I read Bushido, and The Sword and The Mind while I was laid up last summer, very interesting history. Makes one wonder, the famous tale Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, could Gawain have met a wandering Samurai while out questing?

raisindot

Oh, great. Now I'm going to have to watch Kurosawa's Seven Sumarai for the tenth time.

perkinke

I caught a a play re-adapted from Kurosawa's film adaptation of MacBeth a few years ago at the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR, it was the first adaptation of Shakespeare that I truly loved.