13 assassins was a good movie

over the top action, which is great

The black ninja costume actually comes from theatre

Stage hands wore it so you wouldn't see them come move shit around

Most likely real ninjas just wore ordinary clothes

Probably did dress in black to sneak around at night and assassinate people

I did see a thing on real ninja. outfits that have survived to today were actually navy blue, as without electronic light that's the colour the sky takes

Yeah the real ninjas used peasant weapons and would’ve worn common clothes.

Hence the nunchaku

A tool for harvesting rice

Most of those peasant weapons were tools

Oh, this stick? That's not a weapon sir, it's a walking stick because I'm old

Yeah exactly.

Weren’t there laws at that time against common people carrying weapons?

I know that only samurai were allowed to have a katana and a wakizashi.

Only samurai could have a katana

Peasants could have a wakizashi because it's short. There was a regulation length

If a commoner did not show respect to a samurai by kneeling etc, the samurai was legally allowed to behead him for it

But, the commoner was also allowed to defend himself as long as he didn't strike first

But also a halfway decent sword was not cheap

There's an interesting article on a lot of sites about medieval prices, taken from historical documents, sales records etc

I saw one time that a full suit of European knight armor would be like owning a private jet today.

A custom-fit private jet

Duke of Gloucester's armor was worth 103 pounds

Equal to 5,150 days labor for a skilled trade

Or US$82,000 today

anyone wanna talk about the vietnamese dong?

Hahaha

Mail was about 500 days labor or $4,700

Like 4x what a modern soldier wears

Damn

alright

so its justifiable to have an exoskeleton now?

i mean

its like knight armor but better

Mercenary knight wage was about $60 a day

Nobody should get anything new in the army until they allow beards

Nunchaku for harvesting rice? Wat?

You mean a kunai or kama right?

Also cant have a beard it messes up facial recognition in Gundams

Nunchaku are for beating the shit out of the rice stalks I think