This leads to various missions involving your binocular-camera, a suit of fire-deflecting Samurai armor, and various other tools at your disposal, including your wits.

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Its presentation (by museum designer Keith Crippen and his team) successfully captures the mix of craftsmanship, functionality and drama inherent in samurai armor and weaponry, at times drawing our attention to a striking helmet in the shape of a rising wave or a horse mask with horns and flaring nostrils, at other times wowing us with full sets of armor.

WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence

As for the samurai themselves, beauty of armor and fierceness of countenance reinforced their own quasimythical status and helped them keep alive their sense of purpose.

WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence

Historically, the samurai serving a daimyo, or feudal lord, would all wear similar armor, while here the mannequins sport different styles.

WSJ: Dressed to Kill in Peacetime | Samurai! | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | By Lee Lawrence