England, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 300 yr old Samurai warrior costume.

Japan, Honshu, Kyoto, Smiling female actress dressed in traditional costume of a Geisha in the Kyoto Movie Village home of the Samurai movies.

Japan, Tokyo, Yurakucho, the atrium lobby of the International Forum Building, statue of samurai on left, exterior courtyard, trees and flea market, visible through glass wall.

Child drummers at Kaseda Samurai Festival.Asia Asian Nihon Nippon Children Japanese Kids

Child drummers at Kaseda Samurai Festival.Asia Asian Nihon Nippon Children Japanese Kids

Portrait of Samurai wearing armour constructed of plates of metal or bamboo held together with coloured lacing intended to be elegant in appearance while still giving protection from arrows and swor...

Portrait of Samurai wearing armour constructed of plates of metal or bamboo held together with coloured lacing rope sandals and white cloth head band with sword at side. Seated holding bento lunchb...

Villagers fighting with sticks replacing swords during the samurai festival of Kaseda shrine. Masks and protective clothing are not worn.

Yabusame mounted archery at Hachimangu shrine festival. Horseback archery has been a feature of the shrine s festival since the early days of the Kamakura period 1192-1333 and this rider wears a sa...

Sumo wrestlers of the top division perform the dohyo-iri ring entry ceremony before crowd of spectators before a Grand Championship fight.

Sumo wrestler throwing handfuls of salt into the ring as an act of purification. Sumo has close asociations with the Shinto religion with fights taking place beneath a symbolic Shinto-style roof.

Sumo wrestlers in ring watched by referee wearing the costume of a shogun. Sumo is an ancient form of wrestling thought to have originated in Japan some 2 000 years ago. The ring consists of a circl...