>オラ!早く考えろよ、この野郎!
>>64487485I have to give it to Japan, their LARP historical sports are kino.>dress up as shrine maidens/samurai amd do archery>beat each other with wooden swords>dress up as samurai and shoot matchlocks
>>64487485I've asked this question before and didn't get an answer - why did the Japanese coil up their matchcords (which also are very long) over their left arm while Europeans only used shorter pieces of matchcord that were only held with the left hand
>>64487579maybe European had better logistics train, so they don't have to worry about their matchcord burning out? Japan mountainous terrain might have stopped the Jap from having a long supply train
The use of guns in Japan began as a guerrilla operation, with a small number of gunners approaching enemy lines and firing, and the smoke and odor produced by the match cords were disliked.
>>64487485how did they get pictures so clear back then? did the western world even have photography technology during that time?
>>64487907I would assume that european matchcords and japanese ones burn at the same rate. So the need to carry enough of a supply around is the same in both theaters. And making matchcord isn't exactly hard, so it's probably not an issue of having less ofw this ressource: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGlCFCHy25M And it's not like there is something preventing european soldiers from carrying longer coils of matchcord around like the japanese did. European soldiers additionally even lit both ends of their matchcords.
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>>64487988>European soldiers additionally even lit both ends of their matchcords.Is that not it?If you're going to light both ends like that, it's obviously easier to keep it free and short, so you can manipulate both ends handily.If the Nips only lit one end, then of course it's viable to just wrap the rest around their arm.Then the question becomes why did Europeans see the need to light both ends, but the Japanese did not? The different material? Hemp/flax cord vs cypress bark being more or less likely to go out?
>>64488501>Then the question becomes why did Europeans see the need to light both ends, but the Japanese did not?Damn, I really didn't come to that thought. I've always heard and read that european soldiers lit both ends in case one side is extinguished.>The different material? Hemp/flax cord vs cypress bark being more or less likely to go out?Sadly I know nothing about japanese production to come to any conclusion. Apparently the japanese used rice and hemp fibres for their ropes. And hemp was used by the europeans as well.
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>>64487485Why not just create a rifle that fires katanas, since a katana could bisect a fully-armored knight with a simple vertical slash?
>>64491069Why make a rifle that can only fire one katana at a time when you can do better?
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>>64487907It's less that the japanese could master logistics but more that most of the fighting was so localized that there wasn't a need. Look at the size of most clan domains, Oda Nobunaga started with a domain approximately a twelveth the size of ohio
>>64487485I'm pissed that I didn't get the miroku tanegashima I saw on GB, or the one on a German BP website, I really want a firing replica one
>>64487579>>64487907>>64487988>>64488918A big chunk of the reason is that the Japanese were still issuing match-cords in the same length as bowstrings and putting the spare matches on bowstring reels. It makes sense - they're waterproof, lightweight, and were an established part of the kit. For ashigaru teppo squads, the squad leaders carried the braziers for lighting matches and several spare, lit matches they could hand off to help avoid accidents. The ammo bearers would have spare cartridges, unlit matches in oilsacks, and poweder/shot. Samurai often carried their own pipelighters (embers in a metal cage, buried in ash) with them, as well as spare match-cords on bowstring reels. In either case, as the other Anon points out, most Japanese combat engagements were short marches from the camp. Expensive shit like guns and ammo were more centralized, they'd order the unit leaders to start lighting matchesThe Japanese combat drill was also a bit different than John De Gheyn's, which was absolutely obsessed with keeping the match as far away from the gun and pan as possible. You have to switch matches between hands a couple times with the standard European drills, in the Japanese drill you just keep your match-hand in the middle of the gun until you're ready to fire again. The Japanese using stockless guns is probably part of the difference in drills, though unlike De Gheyn I haven't read the original Japanese drillbooks untranslated yet.
>>64494830lol, fuck dem horses
>>64497937I don't think they had animal welfare supervisors on set that day.
>>64498029Poor uma
>>64498029Don't the nippons still do some kind of insane horse-back kamikaze hill-climb event each year that's harshly criticized by animal welfare people across the world because it kills or maims like 90% of the horses?I recall reading something about that.
>>64498275The consistent willingness of the Japanese to go "eh, fuck you and stop whining. Is tradition" is one of their more endearing qualities.
>>64497861>bowstring reels>TsurumakiThank you very much for this information! This seems to be a really plausible answer for my question.Do you have any idea as to why japaneqse soldiers only lit one end of their matchcord while europeans lit both ends? >which was absolutely obsessed with keeping the match as far away from the gun and pan as possible. You have to switch matches between hands a couple times with the standard European drillsIn the caliver and musket drill of the manuel illustrated by De Gheyn II. there are only two steps where match and gun are clearly and deliberately separated. And those two instances are not static positions but movements when the gun is cast from the left shoulder to the right side (or back) during the reloading process/the step to shoulder arms.
>>64501699man if only Sengoku lasted a little longer, we might have seen Samurai dual wielding katana and flintlock pistol
>>64498275>>64500099Good enough for yoshitsune, good enough 4 me
>>64487485That’s so crazy. I would’ve never guessed it, but of course it makes sense Japan would have such good camera technology back then. How did it take the world so long to catch up?
>>64503783Shinto technomancy combined with Buddhism spiritual science
>>64503783Fujifilm has been around for a looong time.
>>64487485Peak
>>64494830Ah yes.Hollywood animal cruelty
everyone should live according to the way of Bushido
>>64487485TEPPO KURAE
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>>64504925Musashi?
>>64505875Nah, someone else.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056058/
>>64505938Ah sounds neat. I will watch this soon
puppet nation of failing dying empire
