Even the samurai's understanding of art and poetry can be traced to stories of the Gempei War. As infighting increased through the following century, so did the need to defend Japan from foreign ...

Seven Samurai tells the story of a village struggling with the imminent threat of bandits hellbent on stealing their harvest.

Shigemi Ikeda, the art director behind dozens of anime titles including My Hero Academia, has died at the age of 69.

Five online modules each provide a case study in the role of art in capturing and conveying human experience. The samurai warrior has come to symbolize Japan’s medieval period of social and political ...

Cover art for Lupe Fiasco's 9th studio album, 'Samurai.' In the case of Samurai, it is a portraiture of Amy Winehouse and a unique insistence that glares of the late artist’s unfeigned hip-hop ...