FUKUSHIMA, Japan >> In a spectacle that seemed straight from a picture scroll of Japan’s Warring States period, the three-day ...

Jolly Samurai (8) gets up to win the Kip Deville Stakes at Remington Park on Sunday, September 29, 2024 over Ring Seeker (3) Credit: Dustin Orona Photography/Remington Park Dustin Orona ...

During the festival, she cares for the participants’ mounts, using skills she has developed through her work on a horse ranch. A onetime civil servant, Yukio Imada acts as a samurai-taisho ...

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As a result, over 111 horses and numerous individuals required ... For the three-day festival, more than 400 mounted samurai, adorned with ancestral flags and wearing armour, portray a captivating ...

Tokyo: Organisers of an annual horse festival in Japan, where riders dressed as samurai re-enact battles, said they were considering changing dates for the gathering next year after sunstroke ...

The Samurai exhibit features nearly 80 objects, including full suits, helmets, weaponry, and full horse armor that were used in both combat and for ceremonial purposes. "There is so much ...

At least 111 horses suffered sunstrokes and two of them died during this year’s samurai festival in Japan, prompting organisers to contemplate altering dates for next year’s event. During the ...