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I think another big problem is that people tend to compare Sengoku-Era Samurai (appx: 1600 A.D.) to early feudal era knights (appx: 1000 A.D.) 600 years is kind of a huge thing in terms of technology even in those troubled times. Heck, just looking at the variety of swords knights had available to them in comparison to the Samurai should reveal just how different the technology and technological requirements were between the two.

That's not to say the samurai weren't extremely deadly and effective. It took a lot of work to become great as either. But they were two different warriors from two different cultures with two very different manners in which to approach war and, unfortunately for the Samurai, European armor was getting so good that they were starting to forgo shields where as Samurai basically lived in a world without them in the first place.
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