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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 1255968" data-attributes="member: 893">They screwed up the sword ettiquite too, when Tom gets his sword he compleately draws it in front of the man who gave it to him with the edge faceing him.  That wouldn't have been done.  He would have turned it so the edge was faceing himself and drawn it halfway.  The Japanese troops had Bolt Action rifles in 1877 which struck me as a little odd seeing as how they made their first apperance in the mid eightteen eighties in the hands of a Prussian army.  The noble selfless protecter of the pesants thing was a little odd too though I think that monderen day society tends to accept the view that the lives of pesants were a lot worse than they actually were praticularly before industrialization.  Some times were worse than others, the 14th century in europe would have been a lousy place to be a pesant, but then again it kinda sucked for the nobility too.Gunpowder had also been used throughout Japan since the Shogunate wars something like 3 or 4 hundred years before this.  Dutch traders had been bringing matchlock and wheellock muskets from europe for hundreds of years.  They weren't as prevalent as they were in europe but they were there none the less and I've seen a contempory painting from the 16th or 17th century which showed a samurai in full armour holding a pistol.</blockquote>