![]() ![]() ![]() The new prevalence of firearms and the prolonged siege warfare that characterised the civil wars prompted further developments in armour. This was famously proven at the battle of Nagashino in 1575, when the arquebusiers of the combined forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu annihilated the cavalry charge of Takeda Katsuyori. The Japanese daimyo (nobles), who by this point were embroiled in the protracted civil wars known generally as sengoku jidai or ‘age of the country at war’, adopted this new technology with enthusiasm, and the Japanese matchlock ( teppo) became a crucial weapon on the battlefield. In the mid-16th century the Portuguese arrived in Japan and brought matchlock firearms with them. ![]()
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