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Samurai Armies 1550-1615

By: Osprey

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Men-at-Arms - 1500 - 1800 A.D.

MSRP old price: $17.95


Product Info

Title
Samurai Armies 1550-1615
Publisher
Category
Author
S.R. Turnbull
Publish Year
1990
Pages
40
Dimensions
7.5x10x.25"
NKG Part #
139094300
MFG. Part #
OSPMAA086
Type
Softcover
Series
MAA86

Description

In 1543 three Portuguese merchants entered a turbulent Japan, bringing with them the first firearms the Japanese had ever seen: simple matchlock muskets called arquebuses. They proved a decisive addition to the Japanese armory, as for centuries the samurai had fought only with bow, sword and spear. In 1575, one of the greatest original thinkers in the history of samurai, Oda Nobunaga, arranged his arquebusiers in ranks three deep behind a palisade and proceeded, quite literally, to blow his opponent’s cavalry to pieces, marking the beginning of a new era in Japanese military history.