Japanese Warrior history quiz...Oda Nobunaga
- Thread starter Maggot
- Start date
6/15 a disappointing quiz. Though his importance at the time was not great , Miamoto Musahi has increased in importance until the present day. Anyone striving to create a good quiz would have worked him in. The sword is the soul of Japan.
Last edited:
10/15.
Nobunaga started going after the mountain Buddhist clans because they often harbored and provided the ninja warriors, employed by various factions against Nobunaga that harassed and decimated his forces time and time again during his attempted conquests of the other feudal lordships. He was a man far ahead of his time by recognizing the significance of firearms in military role and worked tooth and nail to equip all of his troops with matchlock arquebuses. In contrast, his successor Tokugawa would set Japan back for several hundred years by ELIMINATING progress and shunning technology in favor of samurai supremacy with the sword. Japan would only begin to recover from this setback in the 1860s with the Meiji Restoration.
The draconian and overwhelmingly strict gun control laws of Japan today were drafted in the 1400s to the 1500s and adopted into the post-1945 Japanese penal code with NO changes to wording. Possession of swords and bows are also an absolute no go, as these weapons were also considered the noble weapons of the samurai. However, spears and pikes have more leniency. The strict bans on weapon ownership by civilians was the reason why martial arts such as Karate began, which specialized in fighting with repurposed agricultural tools such as the scythe and chain (kusarigama), or the nunchaku, which was originally a device for clipping blighted sprouts or buds from crops.
Nobunaga started going after the mountain Buddhist clans because they often harbored and provided the ninja warriors, employed by various factions against Nobunaga that harassed and decimated his forces time and time again during his attempted conquests of the other feudal lordships. He was a man far ahead of his time by recognizing the significance of firearms in military role and worked tooth and nail to equip all of his troops with matchlock arquebuses. In contrast, his successor Tokugawa would set Japan back for several hundred years by ELIMINATING progress and shunning technology in favor of samurai supremacy with the sword. Japan would only begin to recover from this setback in the 1860s with the Meiji Restoration.
The draconian and overwhelmingly strict gun control laws of Japan today were drafted in the 1400s to the 1500s and adopted into the post-1945 Japanese penal code with NO changes to wording. Possession of swords and bows are also an absolute no go, as these weapons were also considered the noble weapons of the samurai. However, spears and pikes have more leniency. The strict bans on weapon ownership by civilians was the reason why martial arts such as Karate began, which specialized in fighting with repurposed agricultural tools such as the scythe and chain (kusarigama), or the nunchaku, which was originally a device for clipping blighted sprouts or buds from crops.
third cousin twice removed good old nubby noga he was a kind soul a little on strange side he had a passion for running into the woods in just socks spending days at a time rolling in poop but he'd get tired and mosey on home stinking to high heaven the adults would spend days picking the ticks of of him . at least he was not like his twin brother stubby he would poop on the living room rug not a nice fella by any standard . lol family what can you do ? the family tree
Last edited:
Similar threads
