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    Tanegashima (種子島), most often called in Japanese and sometimes in English hinawajū (火縄銃, "matchlock gun"), was a type of matchlock-configured arquebus...
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    accident on Tanegashima (種子島), an island south of Kyūshū in the region controlled by the Shimazu clan. By 1550, arquebuses known as tanegashima, teppō (鉄砲) or...
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    Hōjutsu (redirect from Teppo jutsu)
    still practiced today, often with antique matchlock firearms such as the tanegashima. The martial art is most common in Japan where access to historical equipment...
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    Japan in the 13th century during the first Mongol invasion, referred to as teppō. Portuguese firearms were introduced in 1543, and intense development followed...
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    traders on the island of Dejima. Following contact with the Portuguese on Tanegashima in 1543, the Japanese were at first rather wary of the newly arrived...
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    in Japan around 1270, as simple metal tubes invented in China and called Teppō (鉄砲 Lit. "Iron cannon"). They don't seem to have been used extensively however...
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    the cavalry of the Takeda army with his powerful arquebusiers, using tanegashima. The causes of victory for the allied forces used to be cited as the...
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  • Arthur Season 4 Episode 25: "The Kind Waitress" 1968 Teppô denraiki or The Saga of Tanegashima Captain Pinto 1969 Color Me Dead Bradley Taylor 1970 Ha-Pritza...
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    Ijuin Tadaaki Ijuin Tadaao Ijuin Tadamune Ijuin Tadazane Niiro Tadamoto Tanegashima Tokitaka Uwai Kakuken Yamada Arinobu Yamada Arinaga Akizuki Tanezane...
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  • around 1270 as proto-cannon invented in China, which the Japanese called teppō (鉄砲 lit. "iron cannon"). Gunpowder weaponry exchange between China and Japan...
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    Chinese pirate junk and were shipwrecked onto the Japanese island of Tanegashima, south of Kyūshū. Pinto claimed that his 1543 landing made him the first...
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  • arts and was commander of a unit that consisted of 200 female musketeers (Teppō unit) Despite having little historical record about her life, Ikeda Sen...
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    matchlocks known as teppo or Tanegashima from the Portuguese trading Post in the town of the same name. The introduction of the Teppo in 1543 along with...
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  • carried Wang Zhi in 1543 as attested in Japanese sources Teppo-ki (鉄砲記) and the Tanegashima Kafu (種子島家譜). On the other hand, there is an alternative interpretation...
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    around 1270 as proto-cannons invented in China, which the Japanese called teppō (鉄砲 lit. "iron cannon"). Gunpowder weaponry exchange between China and Japan...
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    Moreover, production of small arms ranged from the early Tanegashima arquebus, to later production teppo, which also subdivided into arquebuses of varying caliber...
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    A Killer's Key ある殺し屋の鍵 Aru Koroshiya no Kagi 1967 The Saga of Tanegashima 鉄砲伝来記 Teppo Denraiki 1967 Nemuri Kyōshirō: Engetsu Sappō 眠狂四郎円月殺法 1969 The...
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  • Actually ______ First Being Introduced to Japan!" "Teppō denrai wa ○○ denraidatta!" (鉄砲伝来は〇〇伝来だった!) Tanegashima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, 1543 AD December 10...
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