Armor Japanese
Posted in Asian Antiques on 02/08/2010 12:37 am by admin
Let's have a duel hypothetical?
The year is 1450 AD and the duel between a European knight and the Japanese samurai. The knight's armor door Gothic Plate and is armed with a long sword. The samurai samurai armor is complete and has a katana. Who do you think would win? So who would win the same game, but this time the two sides are not armor?
There is an excellent essay on this precise question here:
JAPANESE SAMURAI ARMOR
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Men’s Male Guy Furniture Room Divider – 6ft. Samurai Warrior Japanese Art Print Shoji Folding Privacy Floor Screen $129.00 Finely crafted Edo period style large pane 100% kiln dried Spruce shoji with Japanese woodblock art Samurai design- printed on fiber reinforced pressed pulp rice paper. Note lattice and art design on front only. Two way lacquered brass hinges. Ships in 48 hours professionally packed fully insured from our Massachusetts warehouse via FedEx – expedited delivery available…. |
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6 x 4 Greetings Birthday Card Japanese Art Utagawa Hiroshige Armor-Hanging Pine, Hakkeizaka $3.49 Printed on to a luxury card. Somerset Enhanced is one of the very few digital fine art papers made from original 100% pure cotton fibre and we are pleased to offer digital fine art cards using the Somerset Enhanced 225gsm qualities. The card has a pleasing textured finish to give an “art paper” feel to the finished product…. |
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8 x 6 Mounted Art Print Japanese Art Utagawa Hiroshige Armor-Hanging Pine, Hakkeizaka $7.99 Printed on to a luxury card. Somerset Enhanced is one of the very few digital fine art papers made from original 100% pure cotton fibre and we are pleased to offer digital fine art cards using the Somerset Enhanced 225gsm qualities. The card has a pleasing textured finish to give an “art paper” feel to the finished product…. |
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Guyver the Bioboosted Armor $46.00 … |
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This Armor $52.98 … |
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Guyver: The Complete Series (Viridian Collection) $29.82 GUYVER:COMPLETE BOX SET (VIRIDIAN COL – DVD Movie… |
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Escaflowne – The Movie (Anime Movie Classics) $10.94 Studio: Infinity Resources Inc Release Date: 02/06/2007… |
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Escaflowne – The Movie (Ultimate Edition 3-Disc Set) $54.98 Escaflowne is a sprawling adventure saga that infuses sword-and-sorcery and mecha elements into the popular “magical girl” anime genre. The girl is Hitomi Kanzaki (voice by Kelly Sheridan), a withdrawn teenager who wishes she could just leave everything behind and vanish. When she’s magically transported to the alternate world of Gaia, she gets her wish–in spades. The dashing Van (Kirby Morrow) o… |
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1/700 IJN 1/400 Japanese Submarine, Easy Model $13.09 … |
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Fire Emblem Trading Figure – Vol 1 – Eltshan (8 Figure) $11.49 A character from the anime/video games Fire Emblem: “Exceed a Generation”, featured as a Trading Figure (Japanese blind-box figure). This figure stands 8″ (20 cm) tall figure, with a 3″ in diameter base. Packaged in a color box, with Japanese text. Requires assembly. It includes a textured, circular base, with an English label of the game “Fire Emblem” on the front…. |
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H.G.C.O.R.E. Ultraman Figure – Part 6 – Ultraman $5.29 A Gashapon (Japanese capsule figure) of an Ultraman heroe/monster. Figures stand about 3″ (7 cm) in height. Sealed in a clear plastic bag, with a Japanese text insert…. |
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Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) $40.95 Samurai arms and equipment are widely recognized as masterpieces in steel, silk, and lacquer. This extensively illustrated volume is published in conjunction with the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai. It includes the finest examples of swords—the spirit of the samurai—as well as sword mountings and fittings, armor and helmets, saddles, banners, and painti… |
