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WELCOME TO SHOGUN ART Our main gallery website is located at WWW.SHOGUNART.COM Shogun Art was established in order to provide high quality and historically important Japanese Fine Art and Armor to discriminating collectors around the world. Our goal is to maintain the highest standards of authenticity. You can be assured that each piece has been researched and accurately described to the best of our ability. Most of our select pieces of Samurai Fine Art come directly from Japan. We take great pride in providing the best possible items. If you have any specific needs or are searching for that special Kabuto, Menpo or complete set of Samurai Armor let us know. We work with some of the best and most experienced sources in the world. Our goal is to ensure that our customers are proud to own the items they obtain from Shogun Armory and obtain a lifetime of aesthetic pleasure from the beauty of these items. We are always in the market for various types of antique Samurai Armor. If you have a piece of armor or a whole collection let us know. We would be happy to arrange for a free appraisal.

THE SAMURAI Make way for the samurai. Eyes drop, and crowds step aside as a warrior strides haughtily down a congested lane in Edo, the future Tokyo. The time is the early 18th century, but it could be a hundred years earlier or later: The scene would remain the same in a Japan frozen in feudal ways. On the street there is no mistaking a samurai. Two swords, a long one and a short one, protrude from his waist. As a member of Japan's highest class, that of the warrior, only a samurai may carry both swords, lethal symbols of his authority. The samurai and the knight would have recognized each other in battle. They both wore armor, attacked on horseback, fought with swords and lances, besieged castles, and lived by a code of honor. But where the samurai and the knights differed was in their longevity. The Japanese warrior class enjoyed an amazing run of dominance that ended only when American warships sailed into Japan's harbors, exposing the inability of the shogun to defend the country. Forces rallied around a new emperor and easily overthrew the shogun's army. The Samurai's reign had ended. CLICK HERE TO VISIT OUR GALLERY. WWW.SHOGUNART.COM Recommended Links Page