The WACKY WORLD of Japanese GUNS!
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- What if I told you that Japan, who has the strictest gun control laws IN THE WORLD, not only had more guns than any other country 300 years ago, but also had some of the most INSANE weapon designs of that time period!? Today, we're diving into the wacky world of Japanese guns!
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so I want to know about Kojiro Sasaki from Record of Ragnarok is a the best Samurai
1:46 whaaaaaaaaaa
> Sees Shogun 2 meme
> Instant Like
This was incredibly interesting, thanks for sharing, Gaijin.
When you gonna do something sumo related?
I absolutely love old timey guns.
Flintlocks, matchlocks, wheellocks, weird and crazy designs and concepts from an age of experimentation.
According to Forgotten Weapons, the British added a slide to a revolver to reduce, *maybe* get rid of, the recoil, and this was during the Wild West/Victorian Era.
Experimental and some real lookers in the craftsmanship department.
Heck, some ideas were good ones to boot! Take the Puckle gun for example!
Damn right, not just works of art but a whole treasure trove of fantasy RPG shenanigans just gift wrapped to us by our own history.
One of my favorites from Forgotten Weapons was a wheellock musket that somehow had breech-loaded metal cartridges decades before anyone else tried.
It is pretty interesting how far the advanced with matchlocks. Though it is a bit odd that they had access to Mercury fulminate but did not mass-produced cap-and-ball revolvers or rifles. Orly uninformed Mercury fulminate was one of the earliest impact sensitive primers the cap in the cap and ball if you will
Learning Japan’s gun history compared to how it is now is like learning about the stuff you’re grandma got up to in her youthful years.
Honestly hearing that your grandma was a delinquent would have been nice, my grandma was just racist.
@@Arctic7985 So you think being a racist is worse than being a delinquent/criminal? That’s pretty delusional
@@Arctic7985 don't worry so were the Japanese!
@@AryaOghuzit is the current zeitgeist.
Conned people? Been in a gang? Robbed people? Assaulted people? "Meh, everybody make mistakes. We are all human after all."
Sent a spicy meme in a group chat? "Society has no room for the likes of you. Cancelled forever!"
I suspect the distortion of the moral ladder has more behind it than mere stupidity. But that's another discussion.
p.s. idk how this spun to the criminal realm, when I read the initial comment I assumed he was refering to sexual escapades. Sounds more likely to be part of a woman's hidden past than robbing people and fighting for gang turf.
@@AryaOghuzNot sure about criminal, but I’d prefer a delinquent to a racist anyway
The more I look at samurai warfare in 1400s to 1600s, it was really similar to how the Europeans fight at that time. As in having pikes/polearms and guns with knights(or samurai) commanding commoners/low class soldiers.
I absloutly agre
Because the Samurai adapted European tactics
@@MW_Asura Well yes, but actually no. (This stuff was already established, except replace the firearms with bows.)
@@MW_Asura Not even close, lol.
@@LordVader1094 They did though, both when they first got firearms and in the 1800s
If four ruffians breaks into my house, they are getting the portable cannon special treatment.
*Samurai looks at 17th-century soldiers' guns*
Samurai: You call that gun.
*Proceed to pull out a literally cannon*
Samurai: Now this gun.
17th-Century Soldiers: 🤯
They had those in Europe too, look up wall guns or fortress guns, they were used to take out enemy artillery crews during sieges
@@jordanhicks5131 Honesty, I would love to see the images them can provide us.
In my first semester of the gunsmithing program I'm in I wrote a short paper on Japanese firearms and ya... weird, wacky, yet elegant seems to have been the way of the Japanese gunsmith.
And teppo kaji were really creative for the time
Weebs: Noooo guns are not Bushido and it's not honorable
Samurai: So I started blasting
There’s a lot of different guns out there but wow they got pretty creative with these
I am a Japanese civilian who legally owns a shotgun
I have to clarify that we do have civilian guns. Just extremely rare and the paperwork is torturingly tedious
Well, Japan does have a lower gun violence case rate than the US for several reasons. That is probably one of them lmao
Never thought I'd hear Gaijin Goombah nerding out over guns, this just made my day
As a Texan, this puts a smile on my face.
I'm from Texas I lived here all my life.
Surprising, since it proves that gun control works
Yeehaw!! 🤠
My boyfriend lives in Texas. I'm from Texas's enemy Cali
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Wizard: My magic makes me immune to every known form of weaponry!
Hero: How about a gun?
Wizard: What's a gu-
That really depends on the game\setting. Like for dnd a gun will be puncture damage, and its bullet will be no better than a arrow size category wise. Ultimately it will be a ranged attack, and be subject to one of several spells that just hard nullifies all projectiles that arnt siege engines class in size (around at least 5ft diameter)
Outside dnd most nullifications are either space\dimensional which a bullet is helpless againt, or the are just flat immunities, in the best case its damage reduction vs damage type, but even then typically the warriors are way beyond anything a normal human can match up to. So weapons like guns which cant benefit from those stats fall of pretty quickly, so yeah would actually bet more on a high level wizard than a gun.
@@Hevensdragon This was meant to be a joke, but good info.
@@markguyton2868 Jedi can block lasers okay have fun with this buckshot
My mind was processing this as Kamen rider Wizard talking about his sword gun that shakes hands
If you put a ring of speed at the end of the musket, will it turn into scatter-shot rail gun? 🤔🤔
3:07 Man, old guns have the most satisfying "crack" sound. I can see why early demonstrations were always described as "thunderous".
Reminds me of many of the crazy guns made in Europe during the Renaissance. Had some literal gun-blades.
Gun axe
The canons made out of wood are crazy. On the completely flip side of that, the state I live in once used palmetto tree wood (or just the trees themselves I'm not entirely sure) to absorb or deflect canon-fire during the civil war. Can't believe that's somehow full-circle on the other side of the world!
Ah, a fellow South Carolina native.
@@gmsloep That makes three of us.
In the Vietnam war the US sent excessive rpg ammo and not enough barrels to launch them with, so soldiers used bamboo as single use launchers. At times you need to just improvise, if it works it works.
hey, I grew up in Charleston. Yeah, the soft palmetto wood absorbed the cannons instead of splintering like most wood does. It was actually the revolutionary war, but still a neat fact
Isn't that were the myth of old iron sides came from? Apparently, it was made out of A series of wood panels with the middle being made out of livewood that was so flexable The whole wood buckle but never break and bounce back So cannon balls just impacted and then bounced off. Resulting in one of the sailors on board saying huzzah lads Her hull be made of ironwood. Which over time became changed to her hull was made of iron Even though it wasn't
you should also talk about modern japans airsoft obsession
I think it because it the closest thing to get a firearms in Japan legally.
@@starmaker75I think it’s because they have a real problem with teens entering the metaverse
@@frankwest5388 DAMN BRATS! I'LL SUE!
Like the Automotive Airsoft club from Kill La Kill.
And the insane quality of their airsoft guns. I still want a tokyo marui samurai edge.
When I saw the title for this video, I'd wondered if you'd cover the San Renpatsu, as it's one of my favorite firearms of all history... and you did not disappoint! There's also the fact that the tri-barreled boom-baby appears in 'Samurai Deeper Kyo', alongside a few other amazing weapons such as the Hokuraku Shimon (which I think is an actual weapon from Japanese history, feel free to confirm or correct me on that, Gaijin) so that just endeared the San Renpatsu to me even more. Discovering a weapon you've loved in a manga or anime you see later is always a joy.
And now that I think about it, there could be quite a bit of cultural and historical things we could learn about if you were to cover 'Samurai Deeper Kyo'. Something to think on I suppose.
As someone who studied chemistry and engineering, the design and science of guns is fascinating to me (my blacksmith ancestors may have something to do with it, too). Thank you for showing the amazing artistry and ingenuity of the artisans that made these!
This is why FGO's Oda Nobunaga's noble phantasm is one of the most amusing it essentially all the the matchlock guns attacking from all angles. Nice to see some historical notes about he inspiration behind it.
The larger guns that I'm not going to attempt to spell made me think of the trope in shooter games where your character just picks up a turret and walks around with it. Granted, they probably don't have the same fire rate, but still
Well I didn't think guns could be crazier, but then I saw the Niju Renpatsu Seihatsu Ju and I threw my hands up and was like, "I stand corrected!"😂
I need game companies to start including the Oodzutsu. Either as a killstreak, launcher, exotic just something I've always had an itch to carry around a literal Hand Cannon and this would fulfill it
Most likely tod Howard will add it to 76 at some point lol
@@drakenforge4276 No, this is a mod weapon.
@@bthsr7113 ah. Makes sense
Nioh series already has Hand Canon
Those multiple barreled guns sound/look like something you'd see in a JRPG or roleplay campaign given how absurd they are.
Chinese making gunpowder: this power is quite cool and powerful, but I don’t think it will that useful.
Europe, Japan, and Middle East: are your sure about that?
I mean, it was probably first the Middle East that picked it up, then brought some of it to the west, then the Europeans learned it and brought the ideas back, then they taught the Japanese and suddenly several thriving gun industries were forming, each learning parts from each other. The Europeans is where the firearms just…exploded onto the world stage in a big way, with guns being sent to a sizable amount of the world through their traders.
China Continiusly developed on firearms and gunpowder weapons.... Ming had full firearm special units.
how do you assum all these technologies were transfered to the far western regions? 😅
(Formation of YUAN)
It was Qing (middle to late) who caused great stagnancy in developedment until current era. Edo Japan was aware of new firearm types developing 1700 -1800s, but was very spread out, due to strict firearm laws.
@@nos8141 why didnt they conquer the europe? When firearms came to europe they mastered them in a few hundred years and conquered everyone. Chinese had the technology but they didnt
So this explains why Japan and America are the best of friends. Our absolute batshit insane love for all things firearms.
God Bless both America and Japan!
Though there is a difference, Americans can own actual guns, but not realistic looking toy guns, while Japan, it's the other way around, realistic looking toy guns are okay, but not actual guns.
@@whitewolf3051 that’s kind of funny and sad. I hope one day they can have real guns.
@@nickanderson55
The conspiracy part of my brain is saying that America has a part to play in current day Japan's lack of gun ownership. Since the US has substituted itself as Japan's main military and pretty much prevents Japan from creating its own military, strict gun restrictions plays a part in keeping the Japanese populace's disinterested in guns and military equipment.
@@J-manli I thought things changed in recent years and they were building up more of a military not that much more but more then just a defense force
@@nickanderson55
I’m not too aware of recent events tbh. I just find it interesting that despite America’s own love of guns, the country it effectively militarily took over isn’t so gun friendly.
I've been wondering this for a while, what if mythological heroes were actually figures in Japan? How much would they be a Samurai or Shinobi? It's a bit of fun speculative history/mythology. For example, the figure of Cuchalain is from Irish lore and mythology; he was hailed as a great hero and even "King of Battle." And he's known for using a mystical spear, something that was in any good samurai or infantry's arsenal, named Gae Bolg; Gae Bolg was a dangerous weapon, and its head was enchanted with magic that made it so that if it ever managed to pierce flesh, it would mean straight up death for whatever it was lodged into, which meant mishandling or carrying it wrong was incredibly dangerous and potentially deadly; so deadly, in fact, that the Tuatha De Danan, the pre-Christian gods of Ireland kept it sealed away in a special display as the very thing you should never handle without the greatest of care and proper training, training that often takes one's entire lifetime. And Cuchulain was the only one who managed to go through his training by the Tuatha to earn the right to carry and use that spear, because even the Tuatha were afraid to get near the thing for fear of mishandling it and earning themselves a premature death via their own carelessness. Even Cuchalain's name has the ability to evoke that vision of the ideal samurai; Cuchualain's name literally means "Hound of Chulain," he was even known by the moniker of "the Dog Warrior" because of his fiercely dog-like loyalty; it all has to do with the story of how he got the name CuChalain.
Before he was Cuchualin, he went by a different name and was a cocky young kid with a natural talent for combat so immense that he regularly won play fights with other kids and practice matches with older children going through their own warrior training when the odds were as much as him vs. a dozen or more opponents; now, some versions of the story claim Chulain was a King, and others say Chulain was a Blacksmith, I personally prefer the Blacksmith iteration because of the sense of respect for craftsman the image of the story evokes, but either way, Chulain had this great hound that constantly was patrolling the grounds around his home and place of business and would only let those Cuchulain told the dog was permitted through, this was a hound of a distinctive sort that was said could regularly fight of armed warriors and powerful monsters alike, and Cuchalain accidentally killed the creature in act of self-defense because he was coming to the party late and Chulain forgot to tell his hound to let the child through beforehand. After defeating the hound, he and his uncle, who Chulain had invited, were informed it would take 7 YEARS to find and properly train up a new hound to do the work of the old one. But Chulain couldn't leave his place of business unattended due to obligations and the importance of the location to his livelihood, so CuChalain offered to be the man's hound for those 7 years. And it was after that period of time he took on the name of Cuchalain as his own, as a reminder of why being prideful in your abilities, even with the praises of others, can lead to problems and it is better to serve others than your own ego.
Hey that's a pretty cool story. Tam Lin's still cooler tho
@@poymannyng1845 Go look up the story of Cuchulain's last battle; it's wild
Americans: Get excited by the prospect of a quad barrelled shotgun.
Japanese: Hold my ramen. *Loads 20 barrelled matchlock*
Feudalism can take weaponry to such creative heights. Didn't know there was a gun with multiple barrels until the Japanese made this.
Interesting that we see 2 competing schools of thought for handling shooting multiple rounds before reloading here. Both multiple barrels that fire all at once, and having a rotating collection of barrels that could be individually reloaded and fired separately. The Europeans also had developed similar solutions to the problem at the time, leading to stuff like the puckle gun artillery, double hackbut, ‘ducks foot’ pistol(so named because the barrels were splayed like the toes on a ducks foot. Don’t know if the Europeans went as hard as the Japanese did, but it did seem they were trying to stay up to date with modern firearms designs as much as they could.
European guns did the same thing in the 1700s. Useful for ship captains in case of mutiny, have two of them and you could kill 8 dudes in two shots.
A possible reason for large caliber weapons was the fact that Japan, somewhat uniquely, used battlefield fortifications to slow (if not block) bullets. They were made of bamboo and dense thatched grasses.
I love how it's if you put Warhammer Fantasy in Japan and you get all these interesting looking dakkas
I love that "saidaikyuu no teppou" literally means "largest gun".
I know right?
Japan 🤝 United States: Guns
Cowboys have more in common with samurai than I initially thought.
Actually, you can buy a gun in Japan. But only in the countryside. And it's rifle and shotguns. I think you also have to get a license as well.
For hunting, I think.
@@atsukorichards1675 yes your correct.
Knowing that freak Japan used to love guns, it bring new scary meanings to word fire!!!!
I’m not shocked about the different materials used in cannons.
Thanks Mythbusters for that heads up.
But damn we have crazy firearms here.
i thought that last one was just going to be like a japanese equivalent of a duckfoot pistol (which i mean it kind of is) but i didn't expect it to be rifle sized that's pretty insane
It makes more sense at rifle size because its easier to control(do to being less awkward) and hits harder(do to having long sturdy barrels that can handle relatively powerful loads), the result is a very formidable weapon.
Samurai Jack using all of those guns is still very much Samurai spirit
So that giant carried cannon from Sekiro was not a stretch of the imagination it was pulled from history?!
Space Marines looking at the literal handheld cannon and nodding in approval at the bore size
4:00 Now that's a HAND CANNON!
plus european guns get even weirder.
Imagine being one of the first merchants to sell guns in Japan for tidy profit, and coming back say, 30 years later. I imagine the shock of what the Japanese had been able to do with your product would have put you in the grave.
not gonna lie, the Niju Renpatsu Seihatsu Ju is the rifle version of a French ducks foot pistol. But is used in a similar fashion to the Nock Volley gun in being a one man firing squad. Those things definitely would not be shoulder fired as that much recoil would certainly dislocate shoulders or break hands.
Kills with one end and maims with the other 🤣
I love!!! Wacky guns! Especially the ones like these! They make fantastic items or cultural differences for my DND players to interact or come into contact with! Haha I have a kobold & human city where they compete to make the “best” firearms they can and it was fantastic to see them react to the weird guns they had
Thanks for indulging my weapon otaku appetites. When looking at Japan's crazy real historical weapons, it's no wonder their modern manga, anime, and games feature such crazily overdone weapons design (not to mention other crazy historical Asian weapon designs). That twenty-barreled firearm seems like an even more extreme version of a late medieval German variant, as memory serves, called a 'griffin's foot' pistol (Skallagrim referenced them in his video on Warhammer Vermintide 2's historical weapons). Given the centuries of Japan's firearms restrictions after Tokugawa used them to rise to power, it makes sense the ninja kept up the wild sciences of firearms design.
its not called the griffin's foot, that's the name given to a warhammer fantasy interpretation of the firearm, its called the duck's foot pistol in real life. Also it was not a late medieval firearm it was an 19th century firearm.
And I was just looking into this topic for a story I'm writing. Impeccable timing on your part
stablization fins only indicate that the projectile is not fired from a rifled barrel, a rocket is self propelled through gradual propulsion, a mortar is fired from a tube which generates pressure resulting in the launch and a rifle grenade or a spigot mortar which are arguably the same thing just with a size difference are fired from a single charge from the spigot 10:00.
I would categorize the Hiya Dzutsu as a spigot mortar, however the rifle grenade theory evolved in ww1 as a way to provide infantry with a suppressive effect, and low caliber mortars fulfil the same roll as rifle grenades(Japan utilized the ultralight type 89 in a doctrinal roll as there rifle grenade) so it is pretty fair to categorize it as a rifle grenade
Thinking of picking out a handgun in the future, so I think I'll enjoy this video. I've always loved the aesthetics of an arquebus even if they are outdated.
I’d love to have a flintlock blunderbuss for shits and giggles.
This makes me ponder, what other things could cannons be made out of? Now that I've seen that cannons have been made of wood, this opens up a lot of very clever and fun ideas for my fantasy novel.
So much of your stuff has been an inspiration, thank you for all of it!
It has to be very hard, but also shock absorbent, so pottery or stonework is usually less than ideal, since if there's any cracks you've basically made a cannon-sized frag grenade.
I hear it's possible to actually make pipe firearms that are common in the post apocalypse Commonwealth from fallout 4 so probably anything all you need is a durable material, gunpowder, trigger and a barrel and a small object to use as a fast moving projectile of course I don't know how true this is but someone in the civil war used a tree trunk as a cannon so I'm guessing if that's true you don't need a trigger just becareful not to blast your hands off but most likely you can't build a cannon out of a tree trunk I only know of American firearms
@@tau-5794 Stonework has been used, but not in the sense of making a cannon barrel out of stone.
Instead, there are historical examples of weapons being created by digging into the ground or rock to create the barrel. These can range from fairly short range explosive traps to surprisingly decent ranged makeshift mortar-type weapons. Also, by "historical", I mean this method has been used right up to the modern day.
The general term is a Fougasse.
Reminds me of a Loony Tunes episode where Bugs Bunny tricks caveman Elmer Fud with a rifle made of rocks and a bamboo shoot.
People have made small caliber guns out of 3-D printed plastic, including the barrel. Still, pressure is an issue, so most enthusiasts recommend only making the frame out of plastic and using a metal barrel.
The Magneto beaten by a wooden gun scene has a level of possibility XD
Lol
People still get shot in heavy gun controlled Europe. Sacrificing safety does not make criminals harmless.
Unlike the US, Europe is not condemned to the terror of perpetual state of low-level civil war.
A lot of those Monster Hunter guns making a heck of a lot more sense with their designs now.
With how much you are talking about guns you are basically the Zach (Mikeburnfire) of ancient Japanese guns
Modern Weebs: Samurai never used guns; they're weapons of cowards, and they only used swords.
Actual Samurai, the second they realized they could use Guns: *SO ANYWAY, I STARTED BLASTIN'*
The Nijyu Renpatsu Seihatsu Jyu is bonkers. I do see where the Crossbone Gundam's Peacock Smasher, the Blanc Phantom's Kujaku and Gundam X Divider's Beam Harmonica comes from though. That it has historical roots is really cool.
FYI wood can actually be more fire resistant than steel or concrete. Modern studies have shown that thick wood, (as tested for Mass timber buildings,) actually carbonises into a carbon foam that's incredibly fire proof. As long as the wood is thick enough this carbonized exterior protects the interior which retains its structural properties. So you just plan to burn 1-2inches of the exterior of mass timber in the case of a fire. This still doesn't help ballon frame homes constructed with 2x4, but traditional Japanese, Nordic, and American log cabin style buildings should retain their strength. The tallest Mass timber building was like 20 stories last I knew, and some Japanese architects wanted to beat the Scandinavian's record.
Niju Renpatsu Seihatsu Ju is basically a cross between an Organ Gun, and a Duck foot gun.
a lot of historical weapons are seen as utterly bizarre to the modern eye but they were consider formidable and useful for the context they were in
"A cannon that Druids can use."
EVERY DM IN THE WORLD: DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS, DAMN YOU!!!
Also...
"Jes twenny barruls? Stil not enuf dakka..."
This is new my favorite episode. I love samurai guns, and Fire Rockets were always my favorites when playing Shogun 2! Gaijin, I have a question. Do you know anything about the Hojo Hand Mortars? In Shogun 2, they were portrayed as actual mortar teams with high explosive rounds. Yet I can't find any evidence of their existence in real life based on the limited research I've done. Were these things real or just fictional?
I'm not sure which is more of a weird flex. Japan making a gun with twenty barrelts or Japan sinking ships with basically a pine tree canon. It's insane! I loved every second of it.
Druid with a wooden gun... sounds perf :D
Damn, I've heard of a few anti material rifles described as a man-portable artillery piece, (notably the XM109, an experimental 25mm payload rifle.) but that 12 ft monster was a LITERAL man-portable artillery piece.
Historically it's not that far off from the German fortress gun. If I had to guess it was probably like a long-range deterrent probably set up on a very defendable position to take people off
Honestly its these older black powder guns that facinate me way more than modern ones. Modern guns revolve around how fast you can make a firing pin go back and forth, but in the days of black powder guns before modern cartridges, you had to find creative solutions to problems back then. If you wanted more firepower, you literally needed another gun or to stick a few more barrels on yours.
i do like how they did it in Assassin creed Blackflag just get more guns! with max upgrade walking with 4 guns and the game had the duckfeet ones as well!
You see that's the thing about Firearms they are tools. Like any other tool they are specialized for what they need to do. Like the Fortress gun before rifling was really a thing you needed long distance shooting. How do you achieve that you have put a crazy long a Barrel on it. You want to make a gun a little bit faster to shoot but don't have metallic cartridges yet get something like a harmonica gun what are you have 10 consecutive shots loaded onto a metal magazine that you slide after you fire a shot. History is full of Firearms that pretty-much created just for certain roles or jobs that needed to be done
When you see some these literal hand cannons, it boggles your mind they used these things and managed to not injure or kill the user from the recoil, I mean the wooden ones you were basically playing Russian roulette on which shot was gonna be the one to blow up in your face.
Wow... So Japan had the *original* BFGs.
Not a gunman myself, but there is something satisfying about hearing those ancient muskets go "boom"
I bet you The Yakuza gangs have guns despite the laws against them in Japan.
It's like what my old master said:
"Honor and discipline won't mean jack if some schnook points at you with a hunting rifle"
13:06 not often, it was used at the beginning of battles to send an initial volley of shots at the enemy line, then passed back to a servant to reload while the Samurai otherwise engaged the enemy.
Given some media portray Nobunaga as a gun nut, was there anything special about the tanegashima rifles he favored?
easy to master along side Nobunaga being someone who wanted to move forward and not stay in the past is what i would assume
Not rifles
I can see the Niju Renpatsu Seihatsu ju being used in combat mostly to confuse/ ambush, use it on one side of a building/fort to assume there's a full blown assault on one front, and the army proper would come in on another side. or maybe set up/used for defense inside a base entrance as the enemy is bottle necked. but man... that is a wild gun. some of these crazier multi barrel designs almost remind me of Vincent Valentines weapon "Cerberus" from "Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus".
Brandon Herrera, aka the AK guy, should watch this. This was amazing.
12:19: That's certainly one "broom" that can clear a room of enemies for sure!
What a lovely plot twists. Samurais holding arquebuses is one of the most badass things I've seen happen in the 1500's
I'm pretty sure there are exceptions in Japan, for the people who hunt bears and boars. Since they're seen as a necessary tool for essential workers.
You know, I should have guessed what the mokuhou was made out of, considering it's literally called "moku"hou
Yooo Oklahoma!
Cougars, Panthers, Wild Boar, you name it.
Loved the video, really continues the tradition of the Samurai adopting and mastering whatever gives them an edge
I get the feeling you're right about the giant ozutsu needing to be mounted; that thing looks more like an old punt gun than anything a guy would even try to march with.
Sad to hear that about Japan's lack of guns in the modern age. They had an awesome gun culture before that!
From fireworks to obliterating opposition. I just learned about the punt gun and it has been a very interesting week
My favourite hinawajuu style gun is a later one the teppo tanto
Which is a cap lock pistol hidden inside the koshirae of a tanto
For the man who wants to bring a gun to a knife fight
This answered a LOT questions had. Thanks!
It's been ages since I watched this channel.
Now I'm back
While Europe has a ton of, ehr.. Creative.. Firearms from all over the ages, too, some looking very much like the Japanese ones, like the multi barrel rifles... Especially after playing a ton of Nioh and Shogun 2, this was a fun video
The last gun: ohhh, a volley gun! There were several kinds over the years from the ducks foot and pepper box in handheld, and larger variants as anti infantry war machines like the organ gun. Took forever to load, but handhelds were like mini shotguns, while the bigger one could leave quite the dent in enemy formations.
I'd say that Japanese gun culture still exists, despite the heavy bans on firearms.
For one, there are several high-end Japanese airsoft gun manufacturers that are avaliable around the world.
Plus, the general detail that many anime and video game serieses put into their firearms is in many cases, better than Hollywood. (Black Lagoon, Metal Gear, Full Metal Panic, GATE, just to name what I can think of off the top of my head)
And despite the lack of a traditional standing army, they still produce their own weapons, vehicles and equipment. (See: Howa Arsenal and Mitsubishi)
That last gun legit left me shooked....
The 20 barrel gun reminds me of that China's hornet gun. Am sure it was real but like it just launched alot of like fireworks out like tiny hornets flying out.
Cut to Goombah making a Ork Warband who specializes almost exclusively in old japanese guns
i think you could make it work in the Imperial Gaurd as Sigmar/Fantasy has mini's with muskets
you probably also want to introduce Kunikuzushi, Otomo Sorin asked Portuguese to aid them with their breech-loading swivel gun to against Shimazu's forces
I knew Japan had fire-arms since trading with Europeans, but this is insane. From wooden guns to pre-cursors of rocket-launchers and basically the gatling gun! As for the last crazy gun, I bet it must have been used as a final option.
This is a very good and valuable video.
Although not introduced in this video, there is a Japanese revolver from the 17th century that looks similar to the Chicago Mafia's "Tommy Gun."
The disk part attached to the top of the gun is the "revolver".
"Custom made medium caliber guns were known as Samuraizuzu"
So in english, musketoon. Medium sized guns made for cavalry
Suddenly Jetstream Sam owning a gun-sheathe for his Murasama makes a lot more sense...
The muzzle velocity of that 100 monme gun must have been poor, almost certainly less than a hundred meters per second; but when your bullet is heavy enough that you could potentially kill somebody by _throwing_ it, that probably wasn’t much concern.
I still prefer swords and poleatms, but it's still cool to hear about other weapons made in Japan through history.
I'm actually trying to write a DnD supplement about firearms, and I've been working on the 'Firearms of the Far East' section... thank you!
Also, my understanding is that some of the heavier muskets would be tied to fixed structures before firing.
Yeah it looks like a European walk gun, just a little different. Might have sat on a mount like they did.
Given how crazy this dakka got for Japan, how did the Imperial era not get crazier other than mounting nine 18.1 inch guns to a single ship. Like, they could have made an AA metalstorm system to help defend that giant ship.
0:39 Brandon Herrera: *sweats profusely*
Gun laws stop law abiding civilians from owning guns. Those that disregard the words on a piece of paper will still own guns. The cats out of the bag guys.