Medieval Japan may call to mind honorable sword-wielding samurai and stealthy ninja assassins. These figures, often seen in popular movies and games about pre-modern Japan, are only loosely based on ...

NARA--Some of the finest swords of Japan’s feudal age are now on show at the Kasuga Taisha shrine here. Many of them are national treasures. What sets the blades apart is that they were ...

KOKA, Shiga Prefecture--A European-style rapier owned by a feudal-era warlord was actually ... board examined the rapier and found that Japanese sword-producing techniques were used in the ...

This lesson is designed to challenge the view of sword-wielding samurai of U.S. movies. Rather than focusing on one particular art form, this lesson uses a variety of images from scrolls, screens, and ...

This discovery sheds light on medieval burial customs and ... a sword discovered in a cellar turned out to be a Japanese wakizashi from the Edo period. The sword, featuring motifs of Daikoku, ...