An man examines a suit of Samurai armour in a display case in Nomura Samurai House, Kanazawa, Japan.
I was working on a travel piece about Kanazawa and exploring the old Samurai district. In the entrance area of one of the old houses a suit of armour is on display. Many tourists would come and go shuffling through the house to look at the beautiful garden and the rooms but the men especially would stop and look at the armour for the longest time. The house was quite crowded due to it being a national holiday and in the end I had to ask one old man to pose for the shot during a quiet moment. The other shots were just too messy with people. To me it sums up the Kanazawa character, a place where you really do come face to face with Japan`s Samurai past.
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