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    8 days ago

    I thought that samurai had moved to leather armor by the time the guns arrived?

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      Leather lamellar armor remained in partial use, I believe, but by the period of the Sengoku Jidai, most armor was metal. The older leather-with-metal style was more common ~200-300 years before as O-Yoroi