Technology in Medieval Japan

Japanese firearm

mechanical clock that has been made to tell traditional Japanese time

traditional Japanese puppet

thumb|300px|An Edo period wood block print showing samurai gunners firing bo-hiya with hiya-zutsu (rocket guns)

thumb|The erekiteru (replica) exhibited in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan upright=1.5|thumb|The erekiteru being demonstrated thumb|upright=1.5|A wikt:curio|curio shop demonstrating and selling an erekiteru. The sign at the entrance says "Newest curiosities from foreign countries". The elekiteru or is the Japanese name for a type of generator of static electricity used for electric experiments in the 18th century. In Japan, Hiraga Gennai presented his own erekiteru in 1776, derived from an erekiteru from Holland. The erekiteru consists of a small box that uses the power

thumb|Bajōzutsu The was a tanegashima in the form of a pistol. Bajō-zutsu were used by mounted samurai in feudal Japan.