Samurai Exhibit

perkinke
perkinke Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,562
The Portland Art Museum has a large display of authentic samurai armor and a few swords and muskets. Some absolutely amaziing pieces from the 10th to 18th centuries along with some of their art and poetry. I have always been fascinated by the samurai and drawn to the warrior-artist ethos that is so at odds with the European model of "big dumb brute" for soldiers. If y'all are in the area it is WELL worth the price of admission, PM me if you want to see more pictures, I took quite a few.

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  • big chunks
    big chunks Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,607
    That's awesome
  • perkinke
    perkinke Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,562
    The craftsmanship and ornateness of the armor and helmets was just astounding. There was one set where you could see scoring from a blade slash and three dents where the wearer had been hit by musket balls. Dented the armor but did not damage the decorative facing.
  • big chunks
    big chunks Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,607
    I picture the art of war, especially the poetic beauty of it, the honor of fighting and the respect of defeat even though they died it was honor of family/clan of it
  • onestrangeone
    onestrangeone Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,423
    I am fascinated with this kind of stuff and history in general.
  • LiquidChaos66
    LiquidChaos66 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,603
    I am jealous!!!! I wanna see that exhibit so bad!
  • perkinke
    perkinke Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,562
    onestrangeone:
    I am fascinated with this kind of stuff and history in general.
    Me, too, my undergraduate degree is in history and I have always been fascinated by military history.

    Chris, it's running until Jan 12 so you've got some time.
  • clearlysuspect
    clearlysuspect Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,750
    Love the bunny slippers!!!
  • BigM60
    BigM60 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 6
    Thanks, Perkinke for the Samurai Exhibit post, Purchase (Art/Armor) Book at the on-line Museum Gift Shop, Please (pm) me photo's.......Thank-You
  • Amos Umwhat
    Amos Umwhat Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,523
    Nice exhibit! I read Bushido, and The Sword and The Mind while I was laid up last summer, very interesting history. Makes one wonder, the famous tale Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, could Gawain have met a wandering Samurai while out questing?
  • raisindot
    raisindot Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 936
    Oh, great. Now I'm going to have to watch Kurosawa's Seven Sumarai for the tenth time.
  • perkinke
    perkinke Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 1,562
    I caught a a play re-adapted from Kurosawa's film adaptation of MacBeth a few years ago at the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR, it was the first adaptation of Shakespeare that I truly loved.