Look, I just want to imagine a scene where a cowboy sees a samurai do his fancy quickdraw sword shtick, then casually says "but have you tried quickdraw.... with a gun?"Well, unlike cowboys, samurai were an actual equivalent of european knights. It was a feudal title.
And actually OG spanish proto-cowboys were there in latin america in 16th century.
But I'm trailing off.
Samurais did modernize, they were wielding muskets for a decade or two. And even had steam battleships.
Before being abolished as a class in 1869.
So a former samurai of meiji restoration period would be rocking a musket alongside his naginata.![]()