During the Warring States Period in Japan, cavalry always carried a big bag behind their backs when fighting. This bag was not red. Mainly depends on what color they like with their boss before dyeing. For example, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's elite knights wear yellow mother clothes, also known as yellow women. This big pocket is called mom's clothes. The warrior who carries his mother's clothes is called his mother's clothes. Why did the Japanese cavalry bring this thing? What does this big bag do? The following Muzijun combines some historical materials to talk about his own views.
1. What is a matriarch?
Mother's coat is a bit like a big pocket. Wrapped directly in bamboo cages with cloth strips, the height standard is to protect the soldiers' backs.
In the movie "The Battle of Guan Yuan", the army assembled and went to Guan Yuan to fight the next day, while Tokugawa Ieyasu got up in the middle of the night to knit clothes for his mother because of nervousness. In this regard, he explained to the maid around him: the mother's dress protects the warrior like a baby's placenta, not just showing the majesty of a man. Of course, this matriarch can't be owned by any Japanese warrior. Only the most elite, loyal and highest-ranking samurai have the opportunity to be promoted to "matriarch", perform command tasks, send troops behind enemy lines and replace generals on the battlefield.
In the era of Antu Taoshan, Nobuo Oda once selected dozens of people from his own Sineitai and turned them into matchmakers and black niang. With this, Toyotomi Hideyoshi followed closely and established the matriarch in yellow. Nobunaga and Hideyoshi's many famous families were born in their mothers' clothes, and their status can be seen.
2. The role of mother's clothing
This strange mother dress has the following functions.
2. 1, protection and decoration of the back
When these knights gallop, the mother clothes rise with the wind, which has a certain buffering and blocking effect on the incoming arrows and is also a very gorgeous decoration.
2.2. Install your own head after death.
"Hosokawa You Zhai Jue Shu" once said: When the head of a samurai dressed in his mother's clothes was captured, his head was wrapped in his mother's clothes. If you are an ordinary soldier, wrap your head with your fingers. It can be seen that a major function of mother clothes is to wrap the head after being killed in battle. In the fourth year of Lu Yong, during the fourth Kawanaka Island and the wartime, Takeda Shingen's troops stationed in Bagan were hit by the superior forces of Shangshan Chinobo because Shangshan Chinobo saw through the tactics, and Nobuko Takeda, Nobuhiko's brother, was killed.
Legend has it that Takeda nobuyuki used to wear a mother costume made of Buddhist scriptures written by his mother, Mrs. Taitai. When his army was on the verge of collapse, Takeda Nobuyuki decided to make a last-ditch effort and led his men to risk their lives for a surprise attack. In order not to make myself memorable, very precious mother clothes fell into the enemy, so I left my mother clothes in this array. After Takeda Shinbo died, his mother's clothes were passed on to his second son Nobuyuki. Unfortunately, Nobunaga was also killed in the battle with Oda Tokugawa's allies.
3. The end of mother's clothes
With the change of war form, firearms such as matchlock guns are widely used in the Japanese battlefield, and the protective value of mother clothes is gradually lost, but they exist as personal soldiers of their owners.