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Re: historical gap for themes
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lugnet.general
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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  Re: historical gap for themes
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 5-Nov-99, to lugnet.general)

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