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Tanegashima
種子島銃
Description
A Japanese arquebus copied from those brought by Portuguese traders to the island of Tanegashima. Within a few decades Japan produced more firearms than almost any European country.
Historical use
- Sengoku period
- Battle of Nagashino (1575)
Technical data
- Year
- 1543
- Service
- 1543–1868
- Country
- Japan
- Maker
- Herreros de Sakai y Kunitomo
- Type
- Arquebus
- Mechanism
- Matchlock
- Calibre
- ≈ 13 mm (bola de plomo)
- Weight
- 4 kg
- Length
- 1,300 mm
Source: Wikidata Q358057
