What weapons did the Japanese bring?

Answer 1

1. Air power consisted of twin engined Betty medium bombers; twin engined Nell bombers. Val dive bombers (single engine); Kate torpedo bombers (single engine); and Zero fighters (single engine). 2. Sea power consisted of Battleships, Aircraft Carriers, Cruisers, Destroyers, and Submarines. 3. Land power consisted of Type 95 light tanks, Type 97 medium tanks, artillery, machine guns, and infantrymen armed with 7.7mm Arisaka bolt action rifles.

Answer 2

The katana is the weapon that has come to be synonymous with the samurai, metaphorically speaking. Bushido teaches that the katana is the samurai's soul[citation needed]. The samurai believed that the katana was so precious that they often gave them names and considered them as part of the living.[citation needed]After a male bushi child was born, he would receive his first sword in a ceremony called mamori-gatana. The sword, however, was merely a charm sword covered with brocade to which was attached a purse or wallet, worn by children under five.[citation needed] Upon reaching the age of thirteen, in a ceremony called genpuku (元服), a male child was given his first real weapons and armour, an adult name, and became a samurai.[citation needed]A katana and a Wakizashi or tantō together are called a daishō (literally "big and small").

The wakizashi itself was a samurai's "honour weapon" and purportedly never left the samurai's side. He would sleep with it under his pillow and it would be taken with him when he entered a house and had to leave his main weapons outside.[citation needed]

The tantō was a small knife like sword sometimes worn instead of the wakizashi as the short sword in a daishō. The tantō or the wakizashi was used to commit seppuku, a ritualized suicide through disembowelment. Samurai with assorted weapons.

The yumi (longbow), reflected in the art of kyūjutsu (lit. the skill of the bow) was a major weapon of the Japanese military. Its usage declined with the introduction of firearms during the Sengoku period, but the skill was still practiced at least for sport.[33] The yumi, an asymmetric composite bow made from bamboo, wood, rattan and leather, was not as powerful as the Eurasian reflex composite bow, having an effective range of 50 meters (about 164 feet) or 100 meters (328 feet) if accuracy was not an issue. On foot, it was usually used behind a tedate (手盾), a large and mobile bamboo wall, but could also be used from horseback because of its asymmetric shape. The practice of shooting from horseback became a Shinto ceremony known as yabusame (流鏑馬).[34]

Pole weapons including the yari and naginata also became a popular weapon. The yaridisplaced the naginata from the battlefield as personal bravery became less of a factor and battles became more organized around massed, inexpensive foot troops (ashigaru).[citation needed] A charge, mounted or dismounted, was also more effective when using a spear rather than a sword, as it offered better than even odds against a samurai using a sword. In the Battle of Shizugatake where Shibata Katsuie was defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, then known as Hashiba Hideyoshi, seven samurai who came to be known as the "Seven Spears of Shizugatake" (賤ヶ岳七本槍) played a crucial role in the victory.[35] Various Japanese (samurai) Tanegashima matchlock firearms.

Tanegashima a form of matchlock which was introduced to Japan in the 1540s through Portuguese trade, enabling warlords to raise effective armies from masses of peasants. The new weapons were highly controversial. Their ease of use and deadly effectiveness was perceived by many samurai as a dishonorable affront to tradition. Oda Nobunaga made deadly use of the tanegashima at the Battle of Nagashino in 1575, leading to the end of the Takeda clan.[citation needed]Tanegashima were produced on a large scale by Japanese gunsmiths. By the end of the 16th century, there were more firearms in Japan than in any European nation. Tanegashima, employed en masse, largely by ashigaru peasant foot troops, were in many ways the antithesis of samurai valor. With the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate and an end to civil war, production of tanegashima declined sharply with prohibitions on ownership. By the Tokugawa period most spear-based weapons had been phased out partly because they were suboptimal for the close-quarter combat common at the time; this combined with the aforementioned restrictions on firearms resulted in the daishō being the only weapons typically carried by samurai.[citation needed] The ōzutsu (大筒), a swivel breech-loading cannon, 16th century

Cannons became a common part of the samurai's armoury in the 1570s. They often were mounted in castles or on ships, being used more as anti-personnel weapons than against castle walls or the like, though in the siege of Nagashino castle (1575) a cannon was used to good effect against an enemy siegetower. The first popular cannon in Japan were swivel-breech loaders nicknamed kunikuzushi or "province destroyers". Kunikuzushiweighed 264 lb (120 kg). and used 40 lb (18 kg). chambers, firing a small shot of 10 oz. The Arima clan of Kyushu used guns like this at the Battle of Okinawate against the Ryūzōji clan. By the time of the Osaka campaign (1614-1615), cannon technology had improved in Japan to the point where at Osaka, Ii Naotaka managed to fire an 18 lb (8.2 kg). shot into the castle's keep.[citation needed]

Staff weapons of many shapes and sizes made from oak and other hard woods were also used by the samurai, commonly known ones include the bō, the jō, the hanbo, and the tanbo.

Clubs and truncheons made of iron and/or wood, of all shapes and sizes were used by the samurai. Some like the jutte were one handed weapons and others like the kanabo were large two handed weapons.

Answer 3

The Samurai would use slashing weapons such as a Katana, a Wakizashi and a Tanto for example. They were also trained in using the Yumi a seven foot long bow and the tessen also known as a fan. Further down the line they would start to use firearms as soon as the Westerners began to arrive.

Answer 4

They used katanas, spears, and kunai guns from the Portuguese staffs.

Answer 5

Bows, spear and sword were the strongest weapons in Japanâ??s ancient time. In present time, the Kantana is the well-known Japanese weapons.