This module focuses on Japan’s medieval period, including the Kamakura (1185-1333), the Muromachi (1336-1573), and the Momoyama (1573-1603) shogunates. Photograph ...

Even the samurai's understanding of art and poetry can be traced to stories of the Gempei War. As infighting increased through the following century, so did the need to defend Japan from foreign ...

The samurai ... Japan. It has only traveled 17 times in the last 15 years. "It is the first time this has actually been shown in this region," said Kalyn Fay Barnoski, the Assistant Curator of ...

Five online modules each provide a case study in the role of art in capturing and conveying human experience. The samurai warrior has come to symbolize Japan’s medieval period of social and political ...

The Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture features a samurai collection among its many other art exhibits to enjoy this spring ...

Thai police have arrested the leader of a Japanese fraud gang and, in cooperation with the Japanese embassy, rescued two ...