ranging from film screenings to classes on Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e (black ink painting). "I don't think there has ever been a samurai show in Spokane," says Wesley Jessup, executive ...

Photograph By The Met, Rogers Fund 1904 The heavily armored samurai, the warrior class of feudal Japan, wore distinctive ... skilled at martial arts, poetry, calligraphy, and other cultural ...

Conversations about the work of Akira Kurosawa often center around his Western-inspired samurai films ... of the Japanese government and the passivity of his life, Kanji navigates new ...

“Samurai, Sunrise, Sunset” has been more ... Decorative Arts in the Campbell House (March 1 and April 5), Japanese Calligraphy and Sumi-e: The Art of Black Ink (March 26), Rare Courage ...

The samurai belonged to the intellectual elite of Japanese society and practiced creative disciplines like calligraphy and poetry that often contrasted with the violent nature of battle.

A panel of experts under Japan's Cultural Affairs Agency on Tuesday selected Japanese calligraphy again as a candidate for UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list. The government is expected to ...

It features three Japanese calligraphy artists, Bisei Fukushima Koshu, Michiko Hamasaki and Sogen Hirano, using giant brushes and buckets of ink to create spontaneous larger-than-life compositions ...

The 12th-century hand scroll is on display in “Words of Wisdom: Buddhist Calligraphy from Japan” at the Freer Gallery. (Colleen J. Dugan/National Museum of Asian Art, Freer Collection/Charles ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — When Japanese calligraphy artist Chiyo Sanada paints, there's more going onto the canvas than ink. She expresses herself when she creates — each brush stroke is a feeling.