Okay, you delusional fucking weeaboo. Since you’re going to piss yourself over this, here you go. A massive fucking essay.
Let’s get one thing out of the way first, you pitiful fucking autist. A fact is something that is proven to be true or accepted to be true, not your pathetic fucking take on history. Half of what you said is horseshit and the rest of it is irrelevant.
Samurai did have metal armor
Fact: Samurai did not have actual protective metal armor until they bought it from the Europeans.
During the earliest period of recorded Japanese history, there was the Tanko/Keiko, though these primitive cuirasses failed to take into account the vast impurity of Japanese Iron, and often provided little protection for their weight and how much they restricted movement. They were used sparingly for about 200ish years during the Kofun period.
The samurai from your animes probably wear the most well known type of Samurai armor, that being a higher quality (comparatively) Dō).
The construction of Samurai Dō varied throughout history before they were replaced by European plate and chain mail. The Japanese didn’t actually attempt to use their own metal for armor until they came into contact with Chinese armor through the Korean Peninsula until the 4th(ish) century.
Of course, Japanese metal was too poor to be used as actual plate, so from the start of the 9th century to the end of the 12th, the Japanese typically used lacquered leather strips called Nerigawa or leather scales called Kozane. Near the end of almost 400 years of development, incredibly wealthy samurai might’ve had access to iron Kozane, with the size of the scales rendering them incredibly difficult to shatter. Of course, rawhide armor was enough damage a Katana, so metal armor was hardly necessary.
The Dō, however, is just the breastplate, though the rest of the armor followed a similar pattern of construction. The Samurai Kabuto was typically made from several dozen leather plates, though a cheap Ashigaru helmet might be made from 3 or 4 plates. For the most part, samurai armor would’ve been made of boiled leather plates connected with more leather and silk. Rawhide would’ve been more durable and suited to armor than Japanese metal, though metal could’ve been employed in very limited use. Japanese Iron is impossibly brittle, and one would need A LOT of it to make effective scale out of it. A piece no bigger than your palm would be too large to be protective.
It wasn’t until roughly 1300-1400 that the Japanese began to implement *Kusari) mail into their armor, and it immediately became popular do to providing more protection than traditional samurai armor. Of course, being Japanese made, the individual rings of the chain mail had to be much smaller than those of other cultures, again due to the extreme brittleness of Japanese metal.
The Portuguese did, however, begin to bring plate armor to Japan during the Nanban trade, in exchange for Japanese armor and weapons (to be displayed as trinkets) and slaves, as well as metric assloads of silver. Samurai did not, however, wear full suits of steel plate. For the most part, they traded in their Kabutos and Kozane for the Comb Morion and the Cuirass.
That was AFTER the matchlock had been introduced to Japan. So, for maybe 10-15 years, the Japanese had Tosei Gusoku, either European plate armor or crude, ineffective imitations, largely made obsolete by the firearm. By the time that Tosei Gusoku became commonplace, the Edo period had begun, and the Samurai ceased to exist as a caste after the Satsuma Rebellion.
Oda Nobunaga was responsible for mass production of firearms.
No, he was responsible for mass buying. The man was a tactical genius but he was by no means a gunsmith. The man responsible for the Japanese copying Dutch matchlocks was Daimyo Tanegashima Tokitaka, and the weapons were accordingly named after him. It wasn’t until the 1570’s that they began to see widespread use and that bulletproof armors were acquired to deal with them.
1500-1603 was the height of their warring period.
That was the entirety of their warring period, you fucking mongoloid. It was only the last 20-30 years that they had something even remotely resembling fully protective plate armor, and that’s stretching it.
The draw weight of a Yumi is 70-180 lbs.
This is the only thing you correctly called me out on, and you’re still fucking wrong. Kyodo Yumi typically pull 30-40lbs, on par with the average Moorish bow. We don’t know exactly how much the average Yumi pulled because there is no average Yumi. 70-90 lbs makes sense but 180 lbs is absolute horseshit.
I saw the Quora page you almost verbatim pulled from. Cite your sources, you hypocritical asswipe.
