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Japanese Shotgunate (media.piefed.social)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Explanation: Shogunate, the term for the military rulership of feudal Japan, sounds like shotgun.

That's it. That's all.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Shotgunate ^^
And its fitting considering that very fast switched/added weapons after they got introduced to it

[–] sga@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I also remember that in one your old posts, samurais prefered guns. how much does thee timing align? i know shogun as a title is essentialy millitary leader, and they must have some samurai under, which may have had guns. Is their circumstantially possible?

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

The shotguns depicted, and shotguns in general as we would recognize them, are all very modern guns, all of them post-dating the Shogunate.

There were samurai under the Shogunate who used guns - Tokugawa Ieyasu, who claimed the title of Shogun around ~1600 AD, was an avid proponent of the use of firearms. But none that would look like these guns.