Samurai Armies 1550–1615 by Stephen Turnbull, Richard Hook

Samurai Armies 1550–1615

Men-at-Arms #86

Stephen Turnbull, Richard Hook

48 pages first pub 1979 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 armoury, as for centuries t...

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