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Warriors’ Ways: Samurai in Fact and Legend

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Dates and Times for this Past Event

  • Wednesday, Sep 6, 2023  10:30am - 12pm
  • Wednesday, Aug 30, 2023  10:30am - 12pm
  • Wednesday, Aug 23, 2023  10:30am - 12pm
  • Wednesday, Aug 16, 2023  10:30am - 12pm

Location

High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree St NE

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Details

This four-session class uses objects on view in the exhibition, Samurai: Armor from the Collection of Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller as a framework through which to explore the image of the samurai and its manifestations in global culture. Through lectures, in-gallery discussion, supplemental readings, and visual resources, we will discuss how the “Way of the Warrior” (bushidō, 武士道) entailed many ways that have been shaped through the ideas of artists, artisans, poets, and ordinary people. Some samurai were admired, a few of them hated, but all their stories contributed to the complexity of an ideal that has become an enduring part of Japanese history and of modern, global culture.