The Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum, Dallas. Photo: Brad Flowers For nearly 700 years, samurai were Japan’s social elite, skilled not only in combat but also in politics and the courtly arts.

Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum has one of the most expansive collections of Samurai armor outside of Japan. It has only traveled 17 times in ...

Samurai (which means "those who serve") were ... on loan from The Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum in Dallas. A few examples of horse armor, which was developed in the Momoyama period (1573 ...

making his fortune in Texas real estate development and training his connoisseur’s eye on samurai accoutrements. Today, the collection is permanently on view at a museum in Dallas, and for more ...