Requires
- Buildings:
- Resources:
Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 3500
- +3 armour for all units recruited in this province
- +3 melee attack for all units recruited in this province
Description
The iron master forges the destiny of many.
There are specialist blacksmiths in this province. With the right investment they can specialise in weapons, improving the hand-to-hand combat strengths of units, or in armour, improving units' defensive values. During the Gempei War, swordsmiths were not producing the katana, which is now regarded as typical of the samurai. Its predecessor, the tachi, was still beautifully made, as might be expected of Japanese craftsmen. Armourers were lower down the social order because their craft used leather. Almost without exception around the world, tanning was always a low-status job. Tanners had to handle carcasses, and the tanning process was unbelievably smelly and horrid. The attitude in Japan to tanners took all this into consideration!