Great pictures with SAMURAI (help for units)

**KLAssurbanipal** · June 10, 2010, 08:47 AM

Ilustrations by Angus McBride http://www.illustrationartgallery.co...Bride_291.html Angus McBride (1931 - 15 May 2007) was an English historical and fantasy illustrator.

Early Samurai:

The Samurai:

Ilustrations by Richard Hook http://www.christcenteredmall.com/st...chard-hook.htm

Samurai commanders 940-1576

Samurai cammanders 1577-1638

Sasa Narimasa, Oda Nobunaga, Maeda Toshiie:

Toyotomi Hidetsugu, Akechi Mitsuhide, Toyotomi Hideyoshi:

Ii Naotaka, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Sakakibara Yasumasa:

Honda Tadamasa:

Shimazu Toshihisa, Uesugi Kagekatsu, Shimazu Yoshihiro:

Mori Nagayoshi, Maeda Toshiie, Maeda Toshinaga:

Kuroda Nagamasa, Kobayakawa Takakage, Kikkawa Hiroie:

Shiroishi Munezane, Date Masamune, Naoe Kanetsugu:

**KLAssurbanipal** · June 10, 2010, 08:50 AM

I am seeing now that thread about samurai was started in historical section.

**TheBlindKing** · June 10, 2010, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by King Louise Assurbanipal

I am seeing now that thread about samurai was started in historical section.

Good Start tx

**Shogun17** · June 10, 2010, 12:18 PM

http://picasaweb.google.com/flamethrower46/Samurai#

**Darth_Revan** · June 13, 2010, 12:04 AM

sweet pics

**Abcormal** · October 17, 2012, 02:56 AM

I dunno. Some of them are... off somehow. That might be because none of the artists above are native Japanese artists, though, I dunno.

**rekishiotaku** · October 17, 2012, 03:08 PM

I can post pictures of Yayoi (500 BC- 300 AD) and Yamato (250-710 AD) if anyone is interested. This is my wheel house.

Originally Posted by Abcormal

I dunno. Some of them are... off somehow. That might be because none of the artists above are native Japanese artists, though, I dunno.

Care to explain? They all look fairly accurate to me.

**Lord Oda Nobunaga** · October 17, 2012, 01:12 PM

I swear to God that his illustrations for historical figures are horrible, those look nothing like Nobunaga or Masamune and perhaps even stereotypical. I like the way he does the armour though.

**jennifhanlon** · October 17, 2012, 10:37 PM

That might be because none of the artists above are native Japanese artists

**rekishiotaku** · October 17, 2012, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by jennifhanlon

That might be because none of the artists above are native Japanese artists

I'm not sure what is "off." I think the armor is well represented. His faces bug me, but that's not the purpose of these books.

He is drawing armor that exists for visual reference in museums, not writing about the nuances of the tea ceremony, I don't see what his ethnicity/cultural background has to do with it.