Hinawa revolver
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The Hinawa revolver was an early Japanese handgun
of the Edo period
used by Samurai
troops. It was invented around the same time, or slightly before the Americans and Europeans began manufacturing multi-shot firearms.
Handgun
A handgun is a firearm designed to be held and operated by one hand. This characteristic differentiates handguns as a general class of firearms from long guns such as rifles and shotguns ....
of the Edo period
Edo period
The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
used by Samurai
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
troops. It was invented around the same time, or slightly before the Americans and Europeans began manufacturing multi-shot firearms.