Samurai, General, Ruler … Saint? Born in a castle to a noble Japanese Buddhist family in 1552, Takayama was raised to be a warrior and an exemplar of the Japanese spirit and culture. The ...

Here, Mitsuo Abe—in everyday life, a dealer in antique armor—dresses as a type of samurai called go-taisho, a battalion general. After years of making images outside of Japan, Ryotaro Horiuchi ...