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For the samurai, the soul rested in the belly. That’s why the ritual suicide known as seppuku 切腹 was thought to release the soul...
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For the samurai, the soul rested in the belly. That’s why the ritual suicide known as seppuku 切腹 was thought to release the soul...
One of the most influential traditional tattoo styles is Irezumi—the full-body tattoos we’ve come to associate with members of Yakuza, the world’s oldest gang,...
Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861) was one of the great masters of Japanese woodblock printing and painting the ukiyo-e style. Some of his best known work...
He was three times nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, an accomplished bodybuilder, a trained soldier, an expert swordsman, a model, an actor,...
I love history of all kinds and I’m also a very visual person. So when I saw these photos of Samurai armor, I was...
It’s hard for me to imagine, in the age of instant information, what it would be like to see one of Felice Beato’s photographs...