In London, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in day 21th October 2009 start an special exhibition about: ''The art of Samurai'' and ends on 10th January 2010. This is the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai. Arms and armor is the principal focus, bringing together the fines examples of armor, swords and sword mounting, archery equipment and firearms, equestrian equipment, banners, surcoats, and related accessories of rank such as fans and batons. Drawn entirely from public and private collections in Japan, the majority of objects date from the rise of the samurai in the late Heian period, ca. 1156, through the early modern Edo period, ending in 1868, when samurai culture was abolished. The martial skills and daily life of the samurai, their governing lords, the daimyo, and the ruling shoguns will also be evoked through the presence of painted scrolls and screens depicting battles and martial sports, castles, and portraits of individual warriors. The exhibition concludes with a related exhibition documenting the recent restoration in Japan of a selection of arms and armor from the Metropolitan Museum’s permanent collection. This is the first exhibition ever devoted to the subject of Japanese arms and armor conservation.Accompanied by a catalogue.
This exibhition is made possible by the Yomiuri Shimbun.
I hope that they have become a vested interest to readers because they do not always hear it in art museums.
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