From Japan to the NGA: The World of the Daimyo

The Washington Post | October 25, 1988| | Copyright

It is easy to imagine warriors of old in this now-peaceful coastal town, where samurai homes hide behind whitewashed walls on narrow streets and the ruins of a once-grand castle rise above a stone-banked moat.

Finely honed swords and ceremonial battle gear are carefully preserved in a local museum, as are intricately drawn depictions of heroic struggles between warrior clans that today still figure in Japanese lore.

But here, too, are signs of the other side of Japan's warrior-filled Middle Ages: the serene teahouses where feudal military lords, or daimyo as they are called in Japanese, ...

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