Fwd: Re: Timeline and firearms on Samurai Deeper Kyo

--- In animeontv@yahoogroups.com, "keiman0" wrote:

-I googled and I got answers--

1- Yuya Shiina could indeed have possessed a triple rotating barrel
flintlock pistol in 1604 and no she would not be breaking Shogunate
Japanese Law at that time since NobuNaga did not outlaw foreigners
and firearms until he had used rifles to win the great war and unite
the Samurai clans together in 1615.

2- Such a pistol did indeed exist in 1604.

Law proof:-
www.wikipedia.org/sekigahara

Pistol prrofs:-
http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/multibarrel.html
http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/other/7pistols.html
www.thewayofthepirates.com/pirate-life/pirate-pistols.php
www.dave-cushman.net/shot/ducksfoot.html

I recall an offer for a duck's foot flintlock kit on the back of a
comic book when I was a kid (I'm 58 going on 59) and it sold for
$4.98 + s/h. And that self same weapon (exact) was featured in Geena
Davis's film 'Cutthroat Island' which is where Depp's 'Pirates'
trilogy drew a lot of its stuff from.

Comments? Thanks for all the help and interest in Japanese history
gang. SFN/SYS and Kami bless ya all. Toodles-K&K

-- In animeontv@yahoogroups.com, "keiman0" wrote:
>
> I have just discovered that at the start of every Samurai Deeper
Kyo
> eppy we are told the exact year the adventure began. Yuya is
> narrating and says something like 'the great war was ravaging the
> land and it is now four years since the great Battle of Sekigahara
> where the legend of Demon Eyed Kyo was born etc'. Well that battle
> was in 1600 so SDK is set in the year 1604. Now in 1545 firearms
were
> introduced into Japan so Yuya and Megeira are not violating any
laws
> yet albeit Meg's is futuristic in nature and Yuya's is a rare
> flintlock called a 'duckfoot' for its unique shape. If you've ever
> seen the Geena Davis film 'Cutthroat Island' (which was used as a
> drawing ground for pirate stuff when Depp's Pirates trilogy was
done)
> there is a scene in it which shows a genuine four-
> barrelled 'duckfoot' flintlock pistol although the barrels are
lined
> up side by side rather than over each other in a triangular
formation
> like Yuya's gun. Megeira (BIG SPOILER ALERT)
>
>
>
>
> well he is a time traveller from the future- right? So he would
have
> a state-of-the-arts weapon, wouldn't he? Ever notice he resembles
> Kakashi Sensei from Naruto? I think so anyway.
>
> I mentioned that Megeira and Yuya had not violated any Japanese
laws
> regarding firearms- yet. In 1615 when the great NobuNaga (the real
> Shogun who united the clans after the civil war not the weirdo in
the
> Kyo series) came to power he did many things to pave the way for
the
> nation as it is known today but two key laws he passed were to
> restrict foreign trade and visits and to ban all firearms from the
> entire country and these laws stood for a few more centuries too. I
> have since learned that he banned guns not because of their danger
> but because NobuNaga wanted to expound the virtues of the Samurai
> blade (katana as a rule) and its noble tradition in Japan.
>
> Well that's my two cents worth for today. Have a swell day hazu and
> Kami bless you all. Toodles-K&K
>

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