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The Invasion of Hokkaido: The Industrial Japanese Empire v Primitive Mishihase Tribes
In 658-660, General Abe no Hirafu was ordered by the Emperor of Japan to invade Hokkaido island and occupy it in order to increase the territories under the control of the Japanese Empire.
General Hirafu went to Hokkaido with a large army and navy to occupy the island, and he had a fleet of armored battleships armed with archers firing flaming arrows, ballistae that can fire flaming spears, and catapults that could hurl large stones, fire stones which are incendiary bombs that are made of stones coated in tar or oil and set on fire, or fire pots which are incendiary bombs that are filled with molten iron, tar, or oil. His armies also had armor piercing reflex bows, crossbows, flaming arrows, flaming spears, armored cavalry, armored vehicles, fire jars, catapult hurled fire pots, and catapult hurled fire stones. Below is an image of a Japanese reflex bow: Below is an image of a Japanese crossbow: Below is an image of an armored samurai riding an armored horse: Below is an image of an armored cart called a Gosho Guruma: Below is an image of an armored carriage called a Kamikosha: Below is an image of an armored battering ram: Below is an image of armored siege towers: Below is an image of a cloud ladder: Below is an image of the ballistae used by the Japanese Empire called Oyumi, which can fire flaming spears that have pieces of tar or oil soaked cloth tied to it: Below are images of the catapults used by the Japanese Empire called Hoseki which can hurl incendiary bombs called Shoidan Bakudan that are filled with molten iron: known as Toketa Tetsu in Japanese or oil: known as Abura in Japanese, and explosive bombs called Bakuhatsu-Mono Bakudan which are filled with gunpowder: known as Kayaku in Japanese: Below are images of the armored arrow firing ships used by the Japanese Empire called Sekibune: Below are images of the type of armored battleships used by the Chinese and Japanese Empires called Louchuan: After the campaign of General Hirafu's expeditionary forces was over, his trophies included at least 2 live bears, 70 bear hides, and 353 prisoners. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkaido#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_no_Hirafu https://www-labs.iro.umontreal.ca/~v...ips_Discovery/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dan-no-ura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louchuan https://historum.com/threads/can-any....100284/page-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_...rs_and_rockets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo-hiya http://gunbai-militaryhistory.blogsp...-crossbow.html http://gunbai-militaryhistory.blogsp...-catapult.html Even during this time period, the Japanese, like the other empires of Asia and Europe were already industrialized and possessed factories like animal mills, water mills, and wind mills, which were used to mass produce goods, blast furnaces to mass produce cast iron, steel, and compound steel, and even oil refineries to mass produce oil for use in soap, oil lamps, candles, lubricants, cleaning oils, and incendiary bombs. The Japanese in particular invented the water scoop mill, a type of water mill that generates mechanical power by letting water from a downstream river flow into the hollow container at the end of a lever which then empties when the weight of the water drags the lever down, a counterweight then pulls the opposite end of the lever down and the end with the container back up so that it can again be filled with water, generating a reciprocating motion that is used to power hammers in forge mills, saws in sawmills, stamps in stamp mills used for mining, and to make wool textiles in fullers, and pottery in pottery mills, and this allowed them to produce goods on an industrial scale, with the time period from 500BCE-1700 being the 1st Industrial Revolution, a technological revolution that turned the entire Eurasian landmass into a large floating factory and gave the empires of Asia and Europe the power to conquer and subjugate the tribal societies of Eurasia and later the tribes in the Americas, Africa, and Oceania. The Japanese also had compound steel furnaces and scale scraping machines used to de-scale fish. Below is an image of a water scoop mill: Below is an image of a compound steel furnace called a Tatara: Below is an image of a scale remover called an Urokotori: Below is an image of a Japanese sushi factory: Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scoop_(hydropower) The Japanese also had mass transport in the form of rickshaws and carts which traveled through dirt roads or roads paved with wood or stone panels and oar powered ferry boats that provided intracity and intercity taxi services using a network of stone canals that run throughout the islands of the Empire. Below is a list of inventions made by the empires of Asia and Europe during this time: Architecture: Sliding Door Folding Screen Flying Buttress Suspension Bridge Drawbridge Turning Bridge Overpass Louver Smoke Canopy Chimney Centralized Heating Hoist Mechanical Elevator Coaching Inn National Highway Turnpike Construction: Scoop Wheel Excavator Water System: Square Pallet Chain Pump Water Raising Windlass Scoop Wheel Pump Mining: Mine Rails Mine Rail Wagons Support Beams for Mine Tunnels and Shafts Mining Explosives Hopper System Lighting: Candle Lamp Oil Lamp Match Chandelier Streetlamp Slide Projector Disaster Management: Dike Seismometer Alarm Bells Communication: Paintbrush Painting Canvas Oil Paint Watercolors Parallel Line Drawer Quill Silverpoint Pencil Printing: Stamp Woodblock Printing Woodblock Image Printer Textile Printing Porcelain Movable Type Printing Metal Movable Type Printing Color Printing Paper Paper Making Machine Book Bookbinding Machine Paper Money Telecommunications: Zoetrope Bells Smoke Signals Timekeeping: Solar Calendar Water Powered Mechanical Clock Striking Clock Astronomical Clock Clock Tower Spring-Driven Mechanical Clock Pocket Watch Pendulum-Driven Mechanical Clock Agriculture: Harrow 3-Field Crop Rotation Moldboard Plow Devices for Controlling Draft Animals: Stirrup Shoulder Harness Padded Collar Horseshoe Entertainment: Water Powered Puppet Theater Water Powered Robots Materials/Chemicals: Mercury Wooden Machinery Dye Coal Coal Furnace Animal Oil Plant Oil Mineral Oil Manual Oil Drill Manual Oil Pump Mill Powered Oil Pump Oil Refinery Oil Retort Oil Drum Natural Gas Natural Gas Bamboo Pipes Cast Iron Glazing Phosphorous Mass Production: Mass Produced Interchangeable Parts Blast Furnace Grindstone Crank Differential Gear Loom Spinning Wheel Noodle Extruder Kneading Machine Noodle Screw Press Reeling Machine Dyed Fabrics Assembly Line Animal Powered Mill Water Mill Water Scoop Mill Ship Mill Barge Mill Tide Mill Bridge Mill Hanging Mill Vertical Axis Wind Mill Post Mill Tower Mill Paper Mill Hammer Mill Gristmill Hand Hulling Mill Hand Gristmill Edge Mill Hulling Mill Vegetable and Fruit Grinder Meat Grinder Vegetable Grinding Mill Fruit Grinding Mill Meat Grinding Mill Fulling Mill Ore Mill Bellow Metal Mill Finery Forge Textile Mill Sawmill Stone Cutting Mill Iron Mill Forge Mill Press Mill Picture Mill Printing Mill Desalination Mill Glass Mill Mirror Mill Bark Mill Spoke Mill Bobbin Mill Carpet Mill Slitting Mill Rolling Mill Stamp Mill Needle Mill Oil Mill Tanning Mill Hemp Mill Cider Mill Sugar Mill Blade Mill Pottery Mill Malt Mill Tool-Sharpening Mill Cutting and Slitting Mill Gunpowder Mill Rocket Fuel Mill Cooking Tools: Wok Makisu (Sushi Mat) Hangiri (Sushi Rice Tub) Kezuriki (Fish Meat Shaver) Makiyakinabe (Japanese Omelette Pan) Oroshigane (Spiked Grater) Oshizushihako (Pressed Sushi Mold) Shamoji (Rice Paddle) Urokotori (Scale Remover) Usu (Hammer and Large Pestle) Zaru (Draining Basket) Everyday Items: Umbrella Sunglasses Hygiene: Toothbrush Toilet Paper Ink Tooth Cleaner and Protective Coating Mechanical Calculators: Abacus Napier's Bones Pascaline Mechanical Domestic Appliances: Coal Clothes Iron Weighted Swinging Fan Land Transport: Odometer South-Pointing Chariot Wheelbarrow Rickshaw Sailing Carriage Hackney Carriage Stagecoach Omnibus Wagon Crank Powered Tricycle Water Transport: Ocean Going Multi-Masted Sail Powered Ship (Up to 7 Masts) Bamboo Plaited Mat Sails Mechanically Controlled Sail Battens Adjustable Sail Stabilizing Sails Steering Sails Oblique Rigging Leeboard Centerboard Daggerboard Rudder Height Adjusting Mechanism for the Rudder Fenestrated Rudder Steering Wheel Watertight Bulkhead Limber Hole Bilge Square-Pallet Bilge Pump Double Hull Ship Crossbeams Circular Toothed Anchor Paddle Wheel Animal Driven Paddle Wheel Ship Magnetic Compass Raised Relief Map Sun Compass Sail Tacking The use of Ocean Gyres and Trade Winds to Aid Sea Transport Astrolabe Sea Chart Globe Aircraft (Unmanned Prototypes): Kite Kongming Lantern Flying Top Air Transport: Kite Glider Armor and Fortification: Horo (Arrow Deflecting Cloak) Lacquer Coated Armor Spiked Shield Chain Mail Full Plate Armor Barding Armored Cavalry Pavise Castles Cannon Armed Bastion Fortresses Weapons: Bladed Pole (Guandao) Long-Handled Saber (Podao) Cavalry Louchuan Oar and Sail Powered Battleship Central Castle Fore Castle Aft Castle Ship Ram Hooks for Pinning Retreating Ships Hook Launching Ballista Molten Iron Fire Pot Ocean Going Multi-Masted Sail Powered Water Tanker Ship Ocean Going Multi-Masted Sail Powered Battleship Hide and Iron Armored Louchuan Battleship Sekibune Shield and House Armored Battleship Compound Steel Wave Blades Armor Piercing Nodato Armor Piercing Wakizashi Armor Piercing Katana Armor Piercing Naginata Snorkel Caltrops Shuriken Throwing Star Baton Mace Flail Broad Sword Saber Pike Lance Longbow Reflex Bow Crossbow Repeating Crossbow Battering Ram Sky Cart Scaling Ladder Rake Cart Double Hook Cart Cloud Ladder Mobile Moat Crossing Bridge Hook Carts Wooden Screen Assault Cover Head Cart Plated Gallery Wagon and Cart for Filling in Moats Nest Cart Watchtower Cart Armored Siege Tower Gate Blocking Knife Cart Cheval de Frise Hoof Grasper Iron Waterchestnut Deerhorn Wood Earth Stopper Iron Caltrop Night Prong Thunderstick Flying Hook Wolf's Tooth Striking Board Wandering Fire Cauldron Triple-Bow Arcuballista Traction Trebuchet Torsion Trebuchet Springald Wheel Catapult Counterweight Trebuchet Windlass Bed Crossbow Multiple Bolt Crossbow Mounted Multiple Bolt Crossbow Fire Jar Fire Pot Fire Stone Fireship Pump Operated Flamethrower Sail Powered Ironclad Battleship Sail/Animal Driven Paddle Wheel Powered Ironclad Battleship Gunpowder Catapulted Corpses Incendiary Fire Arrow Explosive Fire Arrow Flaming Spear Incendiary Fire Spear Explosive Fire Spear Fire Ball Barbed Fire Ball Fire Bird Fire Ox w/ Spears Explosive Fire Ox Fragmentary Fire Ox Fire Gourd Fire Lance Fire Arrow Cannon Muzzle Loading Hand Cannon Gun Wick Fired Muzzle Loading Cannon Howitzer Mortar Mortar Turntable Truck Carriage Bomb Vessel Gunport Sail Powered Cannon Armed Battleship Sail Powered Cannon Armed Ironclad Battleship Sail/Animal Driven Paddle Wheel Powered Cannon Armed Ironclad Battleship Gwiseon Ironclad Roof Armored Battleship Hellburner Oar Powered Submarine Racebuilt Galleon Cannon Catching Rope Net Matchlock Firing Mechanism Wheellock Firing Mechanism Snaplock Firing Mechanism Flintlock Firing Mechanism Pistol Musket Blunderbuss Arquebus Fire Arrow Arquebus Fire Arrow Mortar Breech-Loading Musket Breech-Loading Swivel Cannon Volley Gun Rotary Volley Gun Ship of the Line Puckle Gun Fire Dart Superposed Load Hand Mortar Cannonball Wick Ignited Explosive Shell Grapeshot Canister Shot Case Shot Scrapshot Chain Shot Carcass Wick Ignited Hand Grenade Smoke Bomb Stink Bomb Toxic Vapor Bomb Signal Flare Coil Wick Ignited Landmine Time Fused Water Mine Solid Rocket Fuel Fireworks Fireworks Rocket Multiple Rocket Launcher Portable Multiple Rocket Launcher Solid Shot Rocket Rocket-Bomb Multi-Stage Rocket Cannon Tower Rocket Tower Corrective Devices: Cane Crutches Wheelchair Glasses Mechanical Hearing Aid Peg Leg Dial Operated Hand Mathematics: Pi Long Division Polynomials Algebra Calculus Generalized Binomial Theorem Root Function Approximation Cubic Plane Curves Scientific/Measuring Instruments: Thermometer Gunter's Chain Gunter's Quadrant Gunter's Scale Slide Rule Circular Slide Rule Microscope Spirit Level Geography: Cartography Meteorology: Water Cycle Medicine: Drugs Antiseptics Toxicology Biology: Anatomy Cells Microbes Physics: Pendulum Galilean Relativity The Laws of Motion The Law of Gravity The Law of Cooling Prism Newtonian Fluid Hooke's Law (Harmonic Oscillator) Formulas for Optimizing Gear Design Astronomy: Astronomical Observatory Nova Supernova Comet Meteor Asteroid Planet Water-Powered Armillary Sphere Lunar Eclipse Solar Eclipse Heliocentricism Elliptical Planetary Orbits Oblate Spheroid Shape of Planets Telescope Reflecting Telescope
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They finally made an anime about the conflict between industrial empires and primitive tribes called Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World. In this story the scientifically advanced Empire, which represents Japan, is at war with the primitive and superstitious Nebulis Sovereignty to the northeast which uses witches and magical creatures as its soldiers and represents the tribal societies in the northern and southern islands near the Imperial Japanese Mainland.
The story also has a historical parallel with the Russian Empire, founded by Ivan the Terrible in 1547, that conquered the large amounts of territory east of the Kievan Rus, in order to increase the territory of Russia. The Russians also possessed explosives, firearms, artillery and battleships, like the Japanese at this point in time, which were mass produced in thousands of industrial facilities throughout the Empire. With such great firepower, Ivan the Terrible subjugated the Kingdoms of Astrakhan, Kazan and Sibyr, and also the tribal societies further east of Russia. In one siege alone, the Russians battered an enemy city using 150 howitzer cannons. Another interesting parallel would be between the Viking Empire, which possessed the same industrial level technology as Japan, and the tribal societies in North America that were conquered by the Empire. The Viking Empire which was founded by Rurik, its 1st emperor, sent a fleet of battleships led by Erik the Red to conquer the island of Greenland, making it the 1st North American territory to fall under White control. The Vikings introduced the following innovations to make their navy the most powerful in Europe at that time: Tacking - the ability to sail into a headwind by moving an adjustable triangular sail back and forth to catch the wind and push it back, generating a propulsive force that moves the ship. Sun Compass - a compass where heading is determined by the position of the shadow cast by the sun on a wooden cylinder placed in the center of a dial with lines on its edges enabling navigators to determine the degree of inclination to north, south, east, and west. Longship - a ship with the sides of its hulls covered in large metal discs that act as a shield from enemy projectiles. Below is an image of a Viking Longship: The synopsis: Quote:
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Additionally, the rank Shogun means a high ranking general equivalent to a modern day 5-star general and is also a shortened word for Sei-i Taishōgun: Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Force Against the Barbarians or Yaban Hito which is a term the Japanese used to refer to the technologically inferior and primitive tribes in the islands north and south of the Imperial Japanese Mainland of Honshu. The Japanese also used this term on the technologically inferior Koreans they tried to subjugate during the Korea-Japan War from 1592-1598, and the Ryukyuans from the Ryukyu Kingdom they conquered in 1609.
It is not surprising the Japanese Expeditionary Forces referred to the people in conquered territories as barbarians because they were primitive tribesmen and could not stand up to the mighty Japanese catapults called Hosekis which can hurl incendiary bombs called Shoidan Bakudan that are filled with molten iron: known as Toketa Tetsu in Japanese or oil: known as Abura in Japanese, and explosive bombs called Bakuhatsu-Mono Bakudan which are filled with gunpowder: known as Kayaku in Japanese, at them, and burn them to death in a sea of 1300C fires or blow them up. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogun
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The Japanese Samurai were also hired as mercenaries to serve as soldiers in the armies of other countries like Thailand.
Shoguns, such as Yamada Nagamasa, served as the leader of a battalion of 1,000 Japanese Samurai who were hired by King Songtham of Thailand to aid in the invasion of the Kingdom of Lan Na to the North which the King declared war on because it refused to pay the tribute that he demanded. Yamada and his soldiers arrived in Thailand in 1612 and were immediately deployed on the battlefield along with Portuguese mercenaries. Yamada was immediately given the nobility rank of Khun as soon as he and his soldiers set up a military base in the country. Because of the superior numbers that the Thai army possessed, including the Japanese and Portuguese soldiers, and because of the use of guns, cannons, and explosives against the numerically and technologically inferior soldiers of Lan Na, the Lan Na Kingdom was successfully conquered in 1630 and Yamada Nagamasa was promoted to Ok-ya Senaphimuk and made the governor of the region of Nakhon Si Thammarat as a reward for his service. Below is an image of Yamada Nagamasa and his battalion in Thai uniform: Below is an image of Yamada Nagamasa's battleship which was armed with 18 cannons: Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamada_Nagamasa The Japanese also engaged heavily in maritime trade. Suminokura Ryōi was a famous Japanese merchant who was granted a formal trade license, a shuinjo, from Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and managed overseas trading operations in Vietnam. After Hideyoshi's death in 1598, Ryōi became a trusted advisor and supplier to Tokugawa Ieyasu, who became shōgun in 1603, and continued his overseas operations, with a shuinjō granted by Ieyasu. Between 1605 and 1611, he also had canals constructed in the Tenryū, Takase, Fujigawa, and Hozu rivers to make the rivers of Kyoto more navigable and to extend their reach, so as to better ship goods to, from, and within the city. In exchange for his efforts, the Suminokura business was granted extended shipping rights within the city. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suminokura_Ry%C5%8Di The Japanese also had pirates called Wokou that used fleets of cannon armed battleships to raid Japan, Korea, China, and even the Philippines where the pirates conquered a region called Aparri in the 1500s. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wokou
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