![]() ![]() Artifacts are drawn from the collections of Frankie Banali, Cyrus Chan, Darin S. Furukawa, an artist, educator, and samurai arts specialist, and Michael Yamasaki, founder of Japanese sword dealer and the only non-Japanese national to win the All Japan Sword Appraisal Championship. Jidai is a special display curated by Darin S. Jidai also features blades bearing test-cut inscriptions attesting to their sharpness beautiful and elaborate sword fittings and mountings matchlock firearms and examples of the samurai’s iconic armor. This unique tanto is the only verified artifact of its kind known to exist, and has never before been displayed in a museum. One very special piece was made in the modern era: a tanto (dagger) secretly forged at Manzanar concentration camp by “Kyuhan” Kageyama, a Japanese American who was incarcerated there during World War II. ![]() Jidai contains many notable highlights, including a tsuba (sword guard) made by Japan’s most famous swordsman, the legendary Musashi Miyamoto. Numerous organizations subsequently emerged throughout the country, connecting and educating new generations of samurai artifact enthusiasts. In the 1960s, a group of Nikkei enthusiasts in Los Angeles established Nihon Token Hozon Kai, the first club in America dedicated to the study, celebration, and preservation of the Japanese sword. Sword collecting soon became highly popular in the Japanese American community. At the end of World War II, an estimated three million swords left Japan in the hands of veterans. This was continued in the United States by Japanese immigrants and other collectors. The swords, armor, and other traditional tools and vestments of the samurai have been prized and collected for centuries in Japan. The display also examines ways this facet of Japanese culture has been preserved, embraced, and shared in America. ![]() Assembled from collections in the greater Los Angeles area, Jidai features rare and historically significant samurai artifacts dating as far back as the Kamakura Period (AD 1185–1333) in Japan. Jidai: Timeless Works of Samurai Art looks at the weaponry and armor of the samurai-Japan’s elite warrior class. ![]()
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