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Post by Emily Egan on Oct 3, 2013 21:16:32 GMT -6
Heads up re the special exhibit Lethal Beauty: Samurai weapons & Armor now at the San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) from 2013 Sept. 28 to 2014 Jan. 5. samuseum.org/exhibitions/current-exhibition/473-lethal-beauty This is the only Texas venue for this exhibit which originates from the Clark Collection of Japanese Art & Culture in CA. www.ccjac.org The next stops on the exhibit's tour are Detroit, Birmingham, and New York.
I was able to see it this past Sunday when I was in San Antonio for family. It's not a big exhibit, but if you also take in SAMA's permanent collection of Classical Japanese items (sword, armor, tsuba, screen, palanquin, etc.) on the third floor in the Asian Wing, it can fill up your day. The traveling exhibit has a lot of nice armor, some nice swords & other bladed weapons, great tsuba, and a huge screen that from a distance resembled modern art until we got close and could see what it really was,-- a catalog of battlefield identifying mon and standards. There's much more such as samurai head gear (camp & ordinary hats as well as helmets), a surcoat, jutte, matchlock guns, horse mask, and an interesting group of items made after the Meiji Restoration of sword furniture. The flower basin made of forty saya pieces was a wonderful display of the wide range of saya treatments, though I was a little sad that beautiful saya were sawed up for this. There was also a basket that incorporated arrow shafts, and more. So even though it's not a big exhibit there is a lot of variety. If you are in or near San Antonio please consider taking some time to see this while it is still in the state.
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Post by bladesparks on Oct 5, 2013 8:30:04 GMT -6
Thanks! I will be in San Antonio all next week. Look forward to taking it in.
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Post by Emily Egan on Apr 27, 2014 10:11:55 GMT -6
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