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Re: historical gap for themes
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Date: 
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 23:55:40 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Michael Hopkins writes:
In lugnet.general, Eric Kingsley writes:
My other favorite is the Ninja sets.  When was the last time you remember
seeing a Ninja that needed a gun?  Again TLG could have not done guns in the
Ninja series and no one would have cared.

Actually, Eric, quite the contrary. Guns (Arquebuses) were extremely important
in the history of Feudal Japan. It is not uncommon to read accounts of
3000-4000 gunners taking place in large battles in the 1500's. In this regard,
including guns in the Lego Ninja theme is very accurate from a historical
perspective. If you would like to know more information about this, please
check out my web page at:

<http://baylug.org/ninja/history.

An excellent site, by the way, but you may wish to actually get there:

http://baylug.org/ninja/history.html

The films of Akira Kurosawa are usually set in this general time frame for
those who want inspiration.

Bruce



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(...) Actually, Eric, quite the contrary. Guns (Arquebuses) were extremely important in the history of Feudal Japan. It is not uncommon to read accounts of 3000-4000 gunners taking place in large battles in the 1500's. In this regard, including guns (...) (25 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

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