Samurai Armor at LACMA + FOOD: Making Sushi Made Easy

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Samurai Armor
at LACMA

LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) presents an exhibition of samurai armor on loan from the collection of the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum in Dallas. The Barbier-Mueller has one of the largest and most important collections of its kind in the world. It is composed of nearly three hundred objects, several of which are considered masterpieces, including suits of armor, helmets, masks, horse armor, and weaponry. The objects date from the 12th to the 19th century, with a particularly strong focus on Edo-period armor.



Travel back in time and discover remarkable objects that illuminate the life, culture, and pageantry of the samurai, the revered and feared warriors of Japan. The Samurai Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller, one of the finest and most comprehensive collections in the world, presents a treasure trove of battle gear made for high-ranking warriors and daimyo (provincial governors) of the 14th through 19th centuries. The exhibition illustrates the evolution of samurai equipment through the centuries, featuring more than 140 objects of warrior regalia, with full suits of armor, helmets and face guards, weapons, horse trappings, and other battle gear.

During the centuries covered by the exhibition, warfare evolved from combat between small bands of equestrian archers to the clash of vast armies of infantry and cavalry equipped with swords, spears, and even matchlock guns. Arms and armor were needed in unprecedented quantities, and craftsmen responded with an astonishingly varied array of armor that was both functional and visually spectacular, a celebration of the warrior’s prowess. Even after 1615, when the Tokugawa military dictatorship brought an end to battle, samurai families continued to commission splendid arms and armor for ceremonial purposes. Because the social rank, income, and prestige of a samurai family were strictly determined by the battlefield valor of their ancestors, armor became ever more sumptuous as the embodiment of an elite warrior family’s heritage.

ITEMS BELOW AVAILABLE AT THE LACMA SHOP

http://thelacmastore.org/collections/exh-samurai

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue, 

with essays by leading Japanese samurai armor experts.

Art of Armor: Samurai Armor

from the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection

Hardbound $65.00 USD Member Price $58.50

Samurai Armor Poster  $10.00 USD  Member Price $9.00

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 'Warrior' Kerchief $18.00 USD Member Price $16.20

This is adapted from a rare sketch, Finished Drawing of a Warrior from around 1878 that would have been used by a craftsman to create a woodblock print. LACMA's permanent collection includes over 400 additional works by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 

Below: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi 16" x 20" Reproduction Prints $40.00 USD Member Price $36.00

Tsukiioka Yoshitoshi: 'Kibi Daijin' Journal $12.95 USD Member Price $11.65

Samurai 500 Piece Puzzle $16.95 USD Member Price $15.26

Secrets of the Samurai: The Martial Arts of Feudal Japan$34.95 USD Member Price $31.45

Secrets of the Samurai: The Martial Arts of Feudal Japan

$34.95 USD Member Price $31.45

(Source: LACMA website & press department)


The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Japanese Armor
in their permanent collection (NYC)

(Source: All photos int he above Met Museum section taken by ARTSnFOOD staff, with permission of The Met. Museum of Art)

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Until later,

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