Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Tanegashima: Guns of the Samurai" video.

  1. Also some german crossbows, match- , wheel- and flintlock stocks are very short and strangelooking. The reason was the same, the breastblades. Some more advanced japanese matchlock muskets ( with a Schnappschloß, don't know english word) had been in 1860s updated into Percussion muskets.
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  2.  @dolsopolar  : Matchlock ( Luntenschloß) is umbrella term, as you correctly described, there are Luntenschnappschloß and Serpentinenschloß, which was usually used. In german collections you sometimes see percussion rifles, with noted oldfashioned stock, and a cook, which turns/beats in , wrong ' direction, this are converted wheellock rifles. And sorry for my writing error. Breastplates, not breastblades. In my german dialect, t k and p are spoken as d g and b.
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  3. Japan opend himself? They had been forced by foreign powers, especially USA, when in 1855 an US navy squad entered unallowed a japanese harbor.
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