Vintage samurai

Charles Vincent Gruzanski was a travelled student and teacher of Japanese martial arts, including modern ninjutsu. His son Robert maintains an invaluable website as a memorial to his father's accomplishments and passions. His scans of 1960s Japanese ninja articles and books is well worth your time, and Robert sells and trades rare old titles via the site and eBay. Ninjutsu books Ninjutsu articles (with translated summaries) Above: Detail of an illustration from the cover of a 48-page booklet…

A collection of rare photographs of samurai presented by Daniella Dangoor is being exhibited at The London Photograph Fair. Most photographs purporting to be of samurai are actually not and were taken after 1877, when the samurai system was abolished. These images are of genuine samurai, taken between 1860 and 1877. The photographs in the collection offer a rare glimpse into a vanishing world

Shigeru Amachi in samurai TV classic: Edo-no Kiba, 70's (note: Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo) chanting of Buddha enlightenment written...on the back! (Vintage Photo Samurai TV) 10.2020

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This image of a former samurai would have been taken a few years after the samurai were abolished in Japan. About 1870's, Japan

real Photo PostCard from about 1920

A samurai with a vision A pro-imperial activist in the Bakumatsu Period who helped forge the alliance between Satsuma and Chōshū that would eventually topple the Tokugawa shogunate. Sakamoto Ryōma (坂本龍馬, 1836-1867) was born to a rural samurai...