Here is a nice video on the history of the Kunitomo gun manufacturing company by Owada Tetsuo. Kunitomo is located in Shiga Prefecture, Nagahama City. During the Sengoku Era, it was known as Omi Province. There is a nice museum there and not far away is the Anegawa Battlefield as well. Tetsuo shows a map around the four minute mark on the route of the matchlock rifle during the Sengoku Era. Starting at Tanegashima to Negoro to Sakai, and finally to Kunitomo. I have many posts on Nobunaga and firearms and will remind readers that in 1549, Nobunaga placed an order for 500 rifles from Kunitomo.
I do highly recommend Tanegashima by Olof Lidin for the birth of modern firearms in Japan.
Nobunaga no tame!
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