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Japanese ashigaru firing hinawajū.Night-shooting practice, using ropes to maintain proper firing elevation. Tanegashima (), most often called in Japanese and sometimes in English hinawajū (火縄銃, "matchlock gun"), was a type of matchlock-configured [1] arquebus [2] firearm introduced to Japan through the Portuguese Empire in 1543. [3]
The Nagasaki samurai Takashima Shūhan (高島秋帆) started to import flintlock guns from the Netherlands known as "geweer" from the 1840s. [21] He made the first modern Western military demonstration for the Tokugawa shogunate , in Tokumarugahara (north of Edo ) on 27 June 1841.
It would appear, according to Serge Mol, that tales of samurai breaking open a kabuto (helmet) are more folklore than anything else. [6] The hachi (helmet bowl) is the central component of a kabuto; it is made of triangular plates of steel or iron riveted together at the sides and at the top to a large, thick grommet of sorts (called a tehen-no-kanamono), and at the bottom to a metal strip ...
[13] [29] [40] Samurai could wear decorative sword mountings in their daily lives, but the Tokugawa shogunate regulated the formal sword that samurai wore when visiting a castle by regulating it as a daisho made of a black scabbard, a hilt wrapped with white ray skin and black string. [41] Japanese swords made in this period are classified as ...
Samurai holding a kanabō. The kanabō (金砕棒) (literally "metal stick" or "metal club") is a spiked or studded two-handed war club used in feudal Japan by samurai.Other related weapons of this type are the nyoibo, konsaibo, [1] [2] tetsubō (鉄棒), and ararebo. [3]
[3] [4] When a samurai woman married, she was expected to carry a kaiken with her when she moved in with her husband. [5] The kaiken was also carried concealed in its shirasaya by the lower classes who were not permitted to wear swords, in particular by criminals in the Edo period.
Samurai polearms (1 C, 8 P) ... Staff weapons of Japan (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Polearms of Japan" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.