Samurai swagger / Creators inspired by ostentatious warlords
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000259925
Tomoko Nishida / The Yomiuri Shimbun
OSAKA--At
the main tower of Osaka
Castle, a crowd gathers
in front of one of the historical site’s most popular displays--five
beautifully crafted kabuto helmets. Kabuto helmets are an essential part of
traditional Japanese armor.
The five at the
castle are faithful replicas of kabuto worn by some of the most famous samurai
who served under Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the late 16th century.
U.S.
art lovers bring Japanese collection home / Edo-period works on show at the
Feinberg exhibition
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0000277519
Robert Reed / Special to The Japan News
“Satogaeri,” or
homecoming exhibitions of overseas collections of Japanese art, are certainly
nothing new, but they invariably hold a special interest for audiences in Japan. That is
certainly the case with The Flowering of Edo Period Painting--Japanese
Masterworks from the Feinberg Collection, on view through mid-July at the Tokyo Metropolitan
Edo-Tokyo Museum
in Ryogoku, Tokyo.
Besides the chance to
see works never before shown publicly in Japan, an exhibition like this affords
visitors the added curiosity of seeing a collection of traditional Japanese
works of art that have caught the interest of a “foreign eye.”