Sengoku Komachi Kuroutan - Vol. 3 Ch. 12 - Invasion

[Serelanordir]

Not in Japan island , they dont have alot Metal like on the Main Land

@kalton

 

[Pen3]

@kazaddum i think you meant testudo?

 

[Nobi]

Bullshit. Teaching the average illiterate adult farmer to read and write would take years, specially considering they need to work 24/7 and have almost no free time.

 

[DragonTiger]

@Nobi

Asians.

 

[youseiki]

Fuck, I'm still fucking bitter with mitsuhide's betrayal and Tokugawas' narrow mindedness, Nobunaga's mindset truly could've turned Japan a strong country before Meiji Era.

 

[Romanaire]

@Nobi not really years. When mass literacy began as a policy there were methods that could teach reading and writing in half a year (particulary mutual teaching in France and England to the end of the XIX century). The real problem was teaching discipline and morals to make "good citizens".
Also farmers didn't work 24/7. There was a lot of time, especially in between times of sowing and harvest. Its was common practice among farmers in certaing places and periods to move constantly, looking for places to work. Diferent plants had different times for harvest and farmer would go one place to another.

But this is probably one of the many plot holes and incosistencies this series has.

 

[Kirin-kun]

Kinzu is the unsung hero.

 

[mcfucksauce]

poor kinzou...

 

[electric_claire]

Can't believe she missed an opportunity to fix the Gregorian Calendar

 

[Outlander4563]

Pulls out a comically large spear

 

[Kampfarsch]

so like
where the fuck is her smartphone
mangaka went out of their way to tell us that she has a manual crank charge thing and her phone should have juice left either way but its just not mentioned at all

 

[pojoink1]

characters on the calendar were chinese

 

[Redice]

The real MVP of this story is that blacksmith that can mass produce all those tools with just hammer and thongs.

 

[LorgBorg]

Blacksmith is an actual hidden genius.

 

[Taliante]

Random Fact because I was confused by page 11 and knew nothing about crossbows (and 3 videos and many google searches later): The bow with the gears is what's referred to as a Cranequin Crossbow and yes if you are confused how it fires while hooked up to that crank/winding gear, you can remove the winder after notching the string. For a Cranequin, the winder isn't secured onto the crossbow and the crossbow body typically has a narrower stock and thickens as it approaches the front to secure (usually with a strap) the winder to the body while allowing for easy removal for firing.......don't ask me how they they remove the Cranequin with the wavy stock being thicker than the tiny corner of a strap you see on page 11, but in the pages before you can see the narrow stock on the crossbows. Personally with my amateur knowledge, a Goat's foot might have been easier to recreate compared to a Cranequn, but uhh props to Shizuko for knowing how to make a Cranequin...and a slap on my face because I'll assume there's no time for mangakas to do in-depth research in crossbow varieties

P.S:
Also Cranequin Crossbows by virtue of the Cranequin usually don't have a stirrup, the loop at the front of the bow at least according to the internet)

Anyways, just a fun fact from another one of my short info-dives.

 

[AlabasterSRM]

ok but how can these dumb peasants READ? During this time only the elites could read and write

 

[Someguy]

ok but how can these dumb peasants READ? During this time only the elites could read and write

tbf, village heads and wealthier peasants can read/write during this time period, because they're the ones with property or managing stuff for everybody, so they better know how to read/write to keep records of taxes and how much money they still owe their lords. I imagine the illiterate peasants would bring their more complicated stuff for them to read.

Buddhist temples taught how to read/write, because obviously they want to convert as many people as possible to their religion. If they taught people the chants only by telling them what to say, some idiot is going to mishear the words and say something stupid like "Pee on Boobies" instead of "Praise Buddha".

The one guy in the village who can read and write is probably tasked with teaching the kids. It's just reading and writing, they don't have to learn poetry or write a PhD thesis!

The Japanese language's alphabet equivalents, Hiragana and Katakana, are super simple, because unlike English where words don't always sound like how they're spelled such as "island" or "knife", Japanese words do sound like how they're spelled. The hard part is learning about the Kanji system and grammar. So it's definitely doable if you ignore those and kept everything simple. For example, a notice about learning how to make baskets could just be a piece of paper with the words:

Shizuko's house.
10am.
Study.
Make Basket.