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Japanese Hand held shields. 2017-02-21 07:41:16 Post No. 2400337
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I have always wondered why Japanese Warriors had zero to non handheld shields.
And after a bit of digging and I found out they did all the way up to the 1800
Before the advent of Samurai it was pretty common to have hand held shields but due to mounted archer combat shields were replaced with 2 handed weapons like bow and arrow, Yari, 2 handed Katana.
And so I found a couple of pictures and also a couple of videos that explain in what context they were used.
Start at 2 min mark
https://youtu.be/0C19fMHVW-w?t=2m
I couldn't find pictures of the shields shown in the video so I was hoping someone could help me with those?
I couldn't screen shot them as it resulted in black captures.
Ill be posting some more pictures I found of old Japanese drawings of Samurai with shields.
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Pre Samurai Era Recreated shields.
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Foot Soldier using a round shield
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Not sure about this one anyone know what the decoration on the shield belongs to which faction?
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These are all the stuff I could find.
If anyone should have more info, or just likes to discuss about how warfare was waged.
Or know about other forgotten weapons used by Medieval Japanese warriors and Samurai then pls feel free to post.
Because in this picture the one Samurai on the right has a fan type weapon which I have seen in other artwork and was used to block a Katana strike.
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This was the drawing I was talking about
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Thats a gunbai, it was a war fan used for battlefield divination.
That scene portrays a battle where Usugi Kenshin managed to directly attack Shingen in his HQ and Shingen was forced to defend with a gunbai. It wasnt meant for that purpose
The cloesest thing I know to Japanese shield use is in teh yagyu shingan ryu which uses a hemlet as a shield in several kata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19lJerM4bj4
the demonstration starts around 4:00
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Yoroi was basically a full plate armor. So they didn't need a shield to ward off arrows.
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