Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Military Industries of Japan
Soon after the first importation of firearms, Japan reached the epoch called by historians Sengoku Jidai (civil war period), when incessant hostilities between feudal lords caused the manufacture of weapons of all kinds known at that time to be very active, and gun making was even attempted in every part of the country. Notwithstanding the needs of the time, the use of firearms was comparatively limited, for it was considered by all people that to shoot an enemy with a gun from a distance was a cowardly deed, because it was con trary to the doctrine of Bushido that the right and most honorable way to fight consisted in meeting the enemy face to face and with cold steel.
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