Greetings to all,
On the wake of Gabriel´s question on Nobunaga, I´d like to pose another.
If I am not wrong, Nobunaga was one of the first warlords to make effective and mass use of firearms (including in a episode against Takeda´s Cavalry).
As far as historic resources go, Samurai were very consencious of the "honoured combat methods", being the sword the material focus (or fetish) of such ethos.
This being said, I´d like to hear from you on the impact of the introduction of mass use of firearms in medieval japanese warfare. How would a brave Samurai, endowed with the armour of tradition and hitherto unchallenged upper-class prerrogatives, would have taken his own defeat by a single blow dealt maybe by the lowest peasant, holding the unorthodox weapon (again, maybe riflemen were not members of the lower classes, but you can correct me on that - if so, how would he take defeat in face of a perhaps less trainned person).
Cheers,
Thiago
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From: Luis-Gabriel Leal
To: samuraihistory@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 2:17 PM
Subject: [samuraihistory] Re: Nobunaga as a villain
Well that explains alot then. It just seems so odd that someone who
had been successful in his endeavors for a united kingdom would be
portrayed as a half demon king with a flaming purple sword and
speaking in a voice that makes James Earl Jones seem like pee-wee
herman.
Gabriel
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