Tachi versus katana in horseback fighting

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Originally Posted by Philip

Equine Museum of Japan -- that's a place I need to visit. By the way, did you know the Japanese, like the French and Belgians, like to eat horse meat? A friend brought back some horse jerky from Japan. Most Americans would think it is gross, I like it though. Cheval a la tatare is popular with those who can afford it. There aren't as many horses per capita in Japan so the meat is rather expensive. (Sorry guys for wandering off post, I can't resist talking about food!)

Thanks for the list of horse breeds. Are your pics in the same order as you list them in the text?

Some of the breeds in the photos are quite diminutive. I say that because recently I was studying some pictures of military officers in the imperial army of Vietnam during the 19th cent. Their horses are really short of stature. I don't know how the breeds common to SE Asia may be related to the ones we're talking about, Japan and north Asia. I'm not a zoologist, unfortunately, but am fascinated by the role of animals in human history.

Yes Philip, the pictures are in the same order as captions, even if two are
side-by-side due to the format of the page, I assume. Those have to be read as RIGHT one first. I think that the horses are of different age and that the lack of a common scale for the pictures makes us not able to correctly
get the real dimensions.
Yes, horse meat is expensive, as bovine one. This get us back to the lack
of space for breeding and the need to have robust breeds able to grow in
mountain or anyway hard environment being the better plains used to feed
humans.
There is a 7th type of breed I've not posted because
there is room for only 6 attachments per post.
As you are intrested I attach it hereunder :

Misaki breed :