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- A taketaba (竹束) was a ****anese type of bulletproof shield made from bundled bamboo. During the Sengoku period, traditional shields made of wooden planks...
- plated and soon bullet-proof armor, bulletproof bundles of bamboo called taketaba or heavy iron pavises. With the caliber of the ban-zutsu being too weak...
- adopted into the hojo undō by Chojun Miyagi. A tou (とう), also known as taketaba (竹束, "bamboo bundle"), is simply a bundle of bamboo tied together either...
- called tekkōsen [ja]. Medieval ****anese vessels also used bundled bamboo taketaba to defend against bullets and small cannon shot. The first ironclad battleship...