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exhibitions Samurai: The Way of the Warrior April 21–July 23, Pleasant T. Rowland Galleries Samurai: The Way of the Warrior presents a selection of more than ninety objects from one of the most important collections of Japanese arms and armor outside of Japan. The exhibition includes armor, lacquered objects, helmets, swords, sword guards, saddles, stirrups, arrows, quivers, and bows from the Museo Stibbert in Florence, Italy. The styles and craftsmanship of Japanese artisans on view manifest the moral, cultural, and aesthetic codes of the military class. Each object reflects the identity, taste, and status of individual owners, and together they provide an unusual perspective on one of the great antiquarian assemblages of nineteenth-century Europe. The exhibition is organized by Contemporanea Progetti SRL with the Museo Stibbert, Florence, Italy. Helmet with tufts of horsehair and buffalo horn (detail), beginning of 19th century, steel, gilded copper, boiled leather, wood, leather, horsehair, lacquer, silk, Museo Stibbert, Florence, Italy. Katana (sword), end of 16th–beginning of 17th century, red oak wood, boxwood, rosewood, ebony, ivory, horn, tortoise, malachite, mother-of-pearl, blade: 35 ½ in., tsuba: 3 ¼ x 3 x ¼ in., Museo Stibbert, Florence, Italy.