also known as the Era of Warring States, the chaotic period prior to Japan being unified under the Tokugawa Shogunate. One of the clans wiped out in the contests of power was the noble Katana. The lord committed suicide. His household was exterminated. In the wake of this tragedy, the Ka...
According toHolbein’s Drawings at Windsor Castleby Phaidon, “The inscription is certainly incorrect, the features showing no resemblance whatever with the well authenticated drawing of Anne Boleyn in Lord Bradford’s possession… It is possible that there is indirect evidence of the sitter’s ident...