Re: [HIST] Japanese Culture shock

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From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
> Everyone should know you don't use Samurai against knights (wrong
> time period).

Err....actually, pretty much the right time period From about 900 to the
1650's. Just the wrong place.

> You use them against Cowboys (evil ones) and Indians.
> The man with funny hair, dressed in women's pyjamas and carrying a
> big sword, leads the bandits to overconfidence.
>
> See the Mifune/Bronson movie Soleil Rouge.

:-)