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The Spirit of Budô: The History of Japan’s Martial Arts

In this exhibition, we seek the understanding of viewers about the brief history of Japanese martial arts – from battlefield combat techniques (Bujutsu) to popular sports or physical exercise tempering body and spirit (Budo), through reproductions / originals of historical weapons such as arrows, suits of armor, etc. as well as through materials and photo panels of popular sports and physical exercise such as Kendô, Judô and Sumô, etc.

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February 3-March 4, 2012

The Azerbaijan National Museum of Art (Baku,Azerbaijan)

November 19, 2011-January 1, 2012

Parc Phoenix (Nice, France)

September 21 - October 13, 2011

Sakhalin Art Museum (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk,Russia)

August 16 - September 4, 2011

Far Eastern Art Museum (Khabarovsk, Russia)

July 8 - 29, 2011

Arsenyev State Museum of Primorsky Region(Vladivostok,Russia)

November 21 - December 12, 2010

The Nordic House (Reykjavik)

September 4 - 26, 2010

Krasnoyarsk Museum Center (Krasnoyarsk)

July 30 - August 19, 2010

Russian State Library (Moscow)

June 12 - July 4, 2010

Ethnographic Museum (Zagreb, Croatia)

May 7 - 15, 2010

Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

April 4 - 18, 2010

CEPA Shopping Center (Ankara, Turky)

March 17 - 28, 2010

Airport Outlet Center (Istanbul, Turky)

February 22 - March 13, 2010

Konak Municipality Culture Center (Izmir, Turky)

December 18 2009 - January 18, 2010

The Art Museum of Cluj-Napoca (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

October 19 - 28, 2009

Plovdiv City Gallery (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)

September 25 - October 13, 2009

National Gallery for Foreign Art (Sofia, Bulgaria)

August 15 - September 6, 2009

Museum of Ethnography (Budapest, Hungary)

July 16 - August 9, 2009

Htlikon Castle Museum (Keszthely, Hungary)

April 22 - July 5, 2009

The Japan Cultural Institute in Paris (Paris, France)

February 17 - March 13, 2009

Novi Civic Center (Novi, Michigan, U.S.A.)

January 11 - February 9, 2009

IPFW County Library (Fort Wayne City, Indiana, U.S.A.)

October 22 - December 14, 2008

National Museum of the Cultures (Mexico City, Mexico)

September 2 - 18, 2008

National Museum and Art gallery (Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago)

June 10 - July 27, 2008

National Historical Museam, Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)

May 6 - 20, 2008

Espacio Santos, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay (Santos , Uruguay)

March 12 - April 6, 2008

Maison de la Culture Frontenac (Montreal , Canada)

November 27, 2007 - February 16, 2008

The Japan Foundation, Toronto (Toronto, Canada)

September 15 - November 10, 2007

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (Los Angeles, U.S.A.)




  • Amor of o-yoroi type with helmet of hoshi-kabuto type



    Kendo protective gear


  • Helmet of suji-kabuto type



    Amor of Mogamido haramaki type with helmet of suji-kabuto type


Han-dachi sword mounting with paulownia-leaf motif on ground of black lacquer containing ground mother-of-pearl


  • Kyudo
    ©ALL JAPAN KYUDO FEDERATION


  • Kendo
    ©ALL JAPAN KENDO FEDERATION

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