Prime_Hunter_H01 said:
Ill go with something historical and martial.
Samurai have some of the best weapons of the middle ages. Sorry knight fans.
Now if someone could inform me what the corresponding period in Japan was that was Concurrent with the middle ages.
Well ... depends how you want to class 'Medieval'. If you mean technologically/culturally/militarily/politically etc. The era that had the most fighting was Sengoku-Jidai (but every Total War nut knows that...). Sen=war (verb: tatakau, to fight), goku=country (kanji alone: kuni).
The Japanese 'golden age' however would be Edo-Jidai. Besides Sengoku, most people would probably imagine this period when they imagine old-days Japan. The game you have supplied an image from is set during Edo Jidai (Way of the Samurai II). Tokugawa Ieyasu, of Edo (modern-day Tokyo), had defeated Toyotomi Hideyoshi, of Osaka, to become, basically, the last man standing from 100-odd years of civil war. Edo-Jidai saw the isolationist period of Japan's history - foreigners could be killed on sight outside strict areas, for example (Nagasaki mainly). Even the
vast majority of Japanese were not allowed to travel outside their immediate environs without express permission from a local lord - giving rise to unique regional dialects, customs, festivals, and cuisines in a relatively short time.
Now, OT: Too much to even start. One thing I enjoyed in particular were heated toilet seats and more buttons on the toilet than a PS3 controller.
