Artwork is all by me. Drawn for a samurai-themed TTRPG that I will not name to avoid breaking the self-promo rule. These are all meant to be examples of different character classes embodying various archetypes from Japanese mythology and fiction.
Did the Japanese make any identifiable attempt to adopt certain elements of Chinese and Korean types of armour? Every now and then i see a random Edo period museum piece with an "eggplant" helmet they probably ripped of some poor cavalier from the Mainlands but i feel like it's more so a curioso then actual attempt at adapting from the style of warfare from the Imjin war.
So, sekigahara, the western army against the Tokugawa. In short, the Mori sided with the western army who lost in the end and got a big fat 3 fourths of their power taken away. Cut to about 260 years later, the Mori joined and formed a rebellion against the Shogunate with the help of other clans and even the shimazu, their own rivals AND ENDED UP WINNING, never mess with the Mori, I may be dickriding but never mess with the Mori
I’ve been traveling to Dallas for a long time and never knew this was here. This in some respects is even better than what I just saw in Japan - more variety including Ashigaru (footman) armor.
Just like Takeda Katsuyori, the powerful lord of Suruga gets too much hate for being called rash, careless and strategically shallow ...
but its mostly that its the brilliance, audacity and sheer luck of Oda Nobunaga that the part of the army he attacked was actually the contingent of Imagwa Yoshimoto himself...
what you say?
So to become a knight you need to become an apprentice (page, squire) of the knight.
But how do you become a samurai?
Do you start as apprentice of your father who is samurai? Do you become an apprentice in your youth? How does it work? Can you become a samurai if you have not noble origins?
Thank you for the answers.
Fukushima Masanori, 54 mm metal miniature.
One of the famous “Seven Spears of Shizugatake” and a cousin of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Fukushima rose from a young retainer to become one of the most powerful daimyō of the late Sengoku era. He fought in many of Hideyoshi’s campaigns, distinguished himself during the Korean invasions, and later sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara. After the Tokugawa victory, he became lord of Hiroshima, though he eventually fell from favor and lost most of his domain.
Painted this 54 mm white metal figure as a battle-worn Sengoku-period commander. C&C welcome.
Hi guys, I’ve been getting more into the military side of the period and I was thinking about whose campaigns were worth looking into, though I’m worried I might get more generic answers then. So instead I’m wondering who you guys consider to be the best and why, that way I can see the best of the best.
What would you say in his defence?
many people suspect he had planned this with Hideyoshi seeing how rapidly he marched back from Takamatsu siege as if he knew it would happen and later double crossed Mitsuhide marking him as the traitor to cover up lose ends
but records say there were 9 actually....