Talk:Samurai (Age of Empires II)/@comment-189.216.189.162-20190106052314/@comment-189.216.190.226-20190112052005

It's true that there was practically no contact between the Western world and Japan until the mid-16th century when the Jesuits reached Japan. But they're MODERN videogames, with a bunch of pictures and translated materials at the developers' hands. Rather, I guess it's because the Tokugawa era (1603-1867 centuries) featured in AoE III was an exceptionally peaceful period during which almost nobody saw mounted and armed samurais; it was so peaceful that samurais would leave their heavy katanas at home and take a fake sword with them when they took a walk. Only in medieval literature can we find "samurais at war," and the samurais the Western people actually saw were aristocrats with their knees folded on tatamis.