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Longbow was the main battle weapon of samurai. Even after firearms, which they got the peasants to stand in a line and fire volleys just like in the West.
FTFY: Longbow was the main battle weapon of the English. Yumi was the main battle weapon of the samurai.
Reading your links, the correction you made seems semantically insignificant. Yumi is the word for "bow" in Japanese and longbows describe bows that are long. Longbows are not unique to the English, and there are a lot of bows that can be described as longbows. So my point is, if samurais used yumis that are long (which some did) then saying they used longbows is not incorrect. Nevertheless, thank you for letting us know what the Japanese called their bows, it was educational.
As someone who did archery at national level... Your comment is triggering my need to point out how difficult and different "longbows" are.
I couldn't handle it after years of playing. The term longbow in archery is as calling everything AR15.
Well, a lot of rifles are called AK47 even though most of them are not.
According to the media, every gun is either an AR-15 or a Glock.
Depends on the media I guess, because every gun is literally AK.
That's pretty cool that you did archery at a national level.
Respectfully, I still think that I am correctly interpretting the information on the Wikipedia links sourced above. I'm basing my conclusion off two pieces of evidence. The longbow wiki page linked above mentions that longbows existed in "many cultures", and there is a separate Wikipedia page for the English Longbow. This pushes me to conclude that there is a symantical difference between the two terms, "longbow" and "English Longbow" though many people assume the latter when the former is mentioned.
I think that's an English thing because they're still celebrating Agincourt.
Yeah, MIT prefers pistol dueling for its Certification of Piracy