The Ecology of Real Samurai

Today, we can easily preserve food by technical innovations like canning and freezing. however, this food preservation was a great problem for military and so significant challenge that Napoleon put a big price on the solution. So, how did Samurai solve this problem? the answer was related with food that they ate. 1. Rice To Japanese, rice has been the staple food since long time ago and was the most popular food of all rations at that time. they enabled rice to preserve and bring out by frying and drying, and eat it as it was or eat it like risotto after soaking it in water when eating.  2. Miso In the U.S, miso is well-known as miso-soup but Japanese use it in various meals. Miso includes proteins, minerals and vitamins and supplements nutritions rice lacks. on the other hands, it's easy to ferment so was took as a ration by roasting and making a ball. By soaking in water, it also substitute for soup so was as popular as rice.  3. Pickled plum ...

What weapons do you come up with when you heard samurai ? Maybe, you should think about Japanese sword, Katana, like this, Off course, people of noble birth have it, but a lot of soldiers didn't use it actually and more effective and affordable weapons in battlefield. I will introduce the most popular 3 weapons in 1500s. One of them is Long spear . this is so essential that troops didn't use it means loss and it was standard to overwhelm enemies by spearing in the first part of battle. To boost morale of the soldiers, people thought it was important to defeat enemies and to make soldiers confident. The long spear is 6.3 meters and 6 kilogram so there were many people abandoned it after the early part of the battle.  Second weapon is Bow . in the middle of 1500s, enormous matchlock guns was imported from Portugal and Spain but extremely expensive and more inexpensive bow still got popular for soldiers. also, in contrast of guns, bow were not influenced by ...

Welcome to my blog, The ecology of Real Samurai ! My name is Sota Yoshikawa and I came from Japan. this blog tells you about the actual life of samurai in 1500s - 1600s that you don't know well and explain it from several aspects like from life style to scientific things. In the U.S, only words like Samurai and Ninja are well known but in game, they are so different from true themselves. So, I want readers to know the correct knowledge and also their strength that is momazing than the game. The reason why I chose the topic is I'm just familiar with Japanese history and I love it. when I watched TV and movies in the U.S, characters sometimes use the word "Ninja" and then, they usually sneak and behave in secret like spy. I really want to say to them that the Ninja 's role is not only that but they also do cooler things. because I love Japanese history more than anyone else and I indeed understand how they are cool, I decided to write down about their real life.