Sammy time Sengoku Period Artillery

 Matsumoto armory

Japan traveling and painting part III

 

            I had to switch hotels Friday night. I moved over to the Danrokan. It also has western style rooms. No desk, no place to paint. It is fancy but looks like the place bed bugs came from.

            Halloween went tits up. It rained all night like a cow pissing on a flat rock. No one was out. All the students from Yamanashi U were hiding.

Tomb of Takeda Shingen

Matsumoto Castle, The "Crow Castle," one of the few surviving original castles from Sengoku period.

Sammy Time Sengoku Priod Tempo Manufacturing Techniques

 

                             

The way in which they wrapped the metal around with a cord inside rifled the barrel. 1500-1600 line troops had rifled barrels???????

These were not your daddy's shotgun. That right there is an 80 cal ball