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2006AM6396-01

Sword guard. Japan, 18th-19th century

$2006AN1542-01 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Festival banner from a Buddhist temple showing a samurai warrior, detail. Japan, 19th century$

2006AN1542-01

Festival banner from a Buddhist temple showing a samurai warrior, detail. Japan, 19th century

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A samurai wearing Japanese traditional costume. Japan, 19th century

2006AM4708-01

Sword, by Tamomitsu. Bizen, Japan, 1335

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Scene from Proposals played at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, photo Douglas H. Jeffery. Leeds, England, 1998

2006AF4318-01

Samurai jacket and trousers. Japan, 19th century

2006AM9584-01

Decorated sword showing a battle scene with two Samurai, by Kubota Minamoto Muneaka. Japan, 19th century

2006AN6406-01

Ceremonial costume for Samurai. Kakegawa, Japan, 18th-19th century

2006BC9292-01

Shibata Kazuie, by Ichiwaka Yoshikazu. Japan, 1856

2006BC9293-01

Print depicting a japanese scene, by Kawanabe Kyosai. Japan, 19th century

2006BC9307-01

Page from the Ehon Musashi Abumi showing the warrior Musashi, by Katsushika Hokusai. Japan, 1836

2006BC9309-01

Japanese watercolour representing the incident known as Fording the Uji River . Japan, 18th-19th century

2006BC9328-01

Night attack of the 47 Ronin, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Japan, Edo period, 19 century

2007BL5000-01

The Battle of the Uji River, detail, by Tosa Mitsuyoshi (1539-1613). Japan, 17th century

2007BL5001-01

The Battle of the Uji River, detail, by Tosa Mitsuyoshi. Japan, 17th century

2008BT2223-01

Figure of a samurai dressed in a kimono. Arita, Japan, Edo period, 17th-18th century

2008BT2232-01

Figure of a samurai dressed in a kimono. Arita, Japan, Edo period, 17th-18th century

2006BC9331-01

Short sword, scabbard and scabbard-knife. Japan, 19th century

2010EE3171-01

Scene showing a battle in the middle of the sea. Japan.

2006AN0529-01

Kinkizan Temple on Enoshima Island in Sagami province, by Utagawa Hiroshige I (1797-1858). Japan, mid-19th century.

2006AU4960-01

Warrior Ichikawa Kodanji IV as Fox-Genkuro, by Utagawa Kunisada. Japan, 19th century

2007BL8825-01

Benkei on a Boat, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Japan, 19th century

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A samurai wearing Japanese traditional costume. Japan, 19th century

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A samurai wearing Japanese traditional costume. Japan, 19th century

2006AM9588-01

Sword Ito maki no tachi, by Morimitsu. Osafune, Japan, 14th century

2006BD0836-01

Sanjô Munechika forging the famous blade little fox, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Japan, mid-19th century

2006BD6668-01

The Akita Armour. Japan, 18th century

2006AY2220-01

The Doi Armour. Japan, early 19th century

2006BC9829-01

Minamoto-no-Yorimitsu's defeat of Shuten-doji. Japan, 17th century

2006BE9954-01

Samurai warrior below Mount Fuji, by Toshinobu Okumura. Japan, mid-18th century

2006AM6398-01

Sword guard, by Michitoshi. Japan, 19th century

2006AN9711-01

Samurai sword, by Tomomitsu. Bizen, Japan, 19th century

2006AM3865-01

Inro depicting Aridoshi, by Koma Kansai. Japan, 18th-19th century

2006BE9193-01

Spider Monster attacks Minamoto-no-Yorimitsu, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Japan, 1843

2006AL5496-01

Okimono, by Nagamitsu. Japan, early 19th Century

2006BD1127-01

Lin Chong Killing Lu Qian, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Japan, 19th century

2006AU2138-01

The chronicles of the battle of Ichinotani. Japan, 1900

2006BE7635-01

Helmet and Neck-guard. Japan, 16th century

2006AG1460-01

Engelbert Kaempfer visiting the shogun in the Hall of Audience, from Kaempfer's Japan. London, England, 1727

2006BF4569-01

Actor as the Priest Saigyottoshi, by Utagawa Kunimasa. Japan, 20th century