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 ...

Two swords once carried by samurai have been found ... the center of the nation’s art and culture, which had been home to the emperor of Japan and the imperial court since a.d. 794.

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 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 ...

It’s almost worth buying a new Mac to enjoy Shadow’s state-of-the-art graphics ... moving to Japan for the first time, during a civil war in 1579 as the warlord Oda Nobunaga attempts to ...