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[Tomisama]

Now this has no bearing on the game, but for those who love to peruse the unsolvable mazes of history, three things have be brought to my attention.

1. The Portuguese considered Pinto to be quite the story teller.

“They gave rise to the saying "Fernão, Mentes? Minto!", a Portuguese pun on his name meaning "Fernão, do you lie? Yes, I lie!"”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fern%C3%A3o_Mendes_Pinto

2. The Japanese themselves do not believe that there was a transfer of advanced Western technology to Japan. At least they have no evidence to support it in all of Japan.

http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/e-rekihaku/114/index.html

3. The term used to describe these weapons by almost all Western “expert” documentation is “arquebus”. This is derived from the name harquebus, or German hackbüchse, which means latch gun. In Europe the latch gun referred to a weapon requiring a support rest or wall hook to support it’s “long” barrel. This is not a description of the Tanegashima gun, plain an simple.

Who knows ;)