【转帖】日本马铠小考（[reprint] Japan Barding quiz）.docVIP

【转帖】日本马铠小考（[reprint] Japan Barding quiz） The cavalry dominated the ancient battlefield for thousands of years, excellent cavalry equipment in the enemy is more general as invincible. Japan only on the identity of the samurai personnel qualifications, horses play a very important role in ancient military history in Japan, on the battlefield as the Colts gallop flurry is unique to the Warring States era more picture. Well, did Japan develop the equipment to protect horses? In Nobunagas ambition and reform, appeared the two cavalry horses and armor technology covering ears, glorious company as we made a prompt. origin Origin of the Japanese horse armor, I did not find a specific statement. Because, although Japan retained a large number of armour kind, horse armor reserved but very little, one of the famous Sichuan Museum is hidden in a. Perhaps a long time ago in Japan was introduced from China horse armor, but the lack of reliable evidence to support this view. In the Warring States period, it was well documented. Gong Ji in this depiction of Nobunaga Nobunaga at the age of 14 years when the heroic array: red bars, and catch the horse for flying into the hood of this feather fabric, Ma Kai. Here explicitly mentioned Barding of existence, but also the lack of specific introduction of these horse armour. The more famous horse array for Oda Nobunaga in the Azuchi (parade), in the Royal Horse array, horses will be covered with luxury complex armed, there is the use of horse armour. However, most of these horse armor as a decoration to display the rider down position. Therefore, the relevant information currently available, only temporarily that appeared in the Warring States period, probably from simple horses and armor. Japanese style horse armor Japanese style horse armor with the same time Chinese type is similar, the composition of similar China ancient armor mounted, are used in the small leather guajia connected, but in the concrete structure is different. Chinese