Kakushi-ken: oni no tsume
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Now, this is vital.
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Wearing the fingerstall, you insert
the right forefinger into the vent.

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This prevents air from being expelled
when the shot is loaded...

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...which could be disastrous.
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Bang!
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A premature discharge,
causing burns and even death.

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I had a colleague die that way.
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Next occurs the 'ranging' of the gun.
This involves four techniques:

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1 : Quadrant. 2: Tangent scale.
3: Breech sight...

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...and 4: pendulum hausse.
You learned these yesterday.

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Questions?
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Yes?
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This book says
the English 'Armstrong' cannon...

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...has a vent piece, so you don't
have to stick your finger in it.

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It costs more.
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One Armstrong costs as much as
500 of your old matchlocks.

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Wars now are won by
the most expensive weaponry.

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By money. Such is the age
that is upon us.

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Sensei...
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Yes?
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I'm sorry, but...
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...I haven't the foggiest idea
what you're talking about.

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It'd help if you'd speak
the way we're used to...

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He can't!
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Then why get an instructor
from Edo?

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Could you at Ieast translate
all those English and Dutch words?

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They put my head in a whirl.
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The Ionger I sit the stupider I feel!
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You find this amusing?
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Is this a time for Ievity?
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To prepare you to face an emergency
with modern artillery...

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...your clan has summoned me
from Edo to this backwater!


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