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

and they describe how the samurai carried out ritual samurai beheadings known as Seppuku during the Edo period, which took place from 1603 to 1868. Many depictions of samurai self-sacrifice ...

Although samurai duties may have included combat, they were, for the most part, civil servants. By the Edo period (1603-1868), samurai had become the highest of the four social classes.

A prequel to the story of the legendary samurai and one cat In Edo era there was a legendary samurai named Kyutaro Madarame who are feared as a Madara the Devil He was somehow hired for killing a ...

The chonmage is the distinctive hairstyle of the samurai. Yet much about it remains ... We put it to the test. By the Edo period, various styles were worn and served as indicators of status ...

On the Rakurakuen grounds, the Goshoin building, dating back to the Edo Period, and Ochayashiki hall ... will be awarded with a scroll-shaped “samurai certificate.” Chris Glenn, 56, an ...

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: in a handcrafted Sendai Tansu (Photo: Business Wire) ...

KAGOSHIMA -- Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668-1714) landed on southwestern Japan's island of Yakushima in 1708, when the country was closed to foreigners in its "sakoku" period.