Kubota refuted Parker’s assertion that the Japanese under Oda Nobunaga had developed their own method of volley fire analogous to the Dutch invention. Kubota, Nippon no gunji kakumei. 14 Kubota, Nippon no gunji kakumei. 38 56. Kubota also mentions other differences, such as the prolonged peace in Japan and the lack of a strong cavalry as stimulus for musketry. Re garding the latter, warhorses in Japan were apparently the size of contemporary ponies, and this rendered the Japanese cavalry weak. Musketeers there thus had less incentive to mass fire against their mounted counterparts. Kubota, Nippon no gunji kakumei, 48, 250. 15 Kim, “17 segi Chosŏn ŭi p’osu hullyŏn pangsik kwa kunyŭl” 17C 조선의 포수 훈련방식과 군율, 167 97. Also see Chang, “17 segi chŏnban Chosŏn ŭi p’osu yangsŏng kwa unyŏng” 17세 기 전반 朝鮮의 砲手 養成과 運用.
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