Samurai at the British Museum – 3/2/26-May 2025

“Samurai” opens this week at the British Museum (through to May) – there’s a lot to see and a lot of ideas about Samurai culture, crafts, literature, painting, textiles, Architecture, diplomacy, battle techniques, gender roles, interactions with Portuguese Christians, Samurai at peace, post-abolition concepts of Samurai in film, TV, games, art, ideology etc and….armour of course

1) mounted archer armour
2) armoured helmets
3) child’s ceremonial armour