User blog comment:Kazanshin/Samurai vsManchurian Warrior/@comment-17814994-20180605045331/@comment-27358240-20180605224440

Just a thing on the Yumi:

"Severely lacks in power" There is an account in the "Hougen Monogatari" in which Minamoto No Yoshiie states "if you do not wear 4 or 5 layers of armor of good metal, the gods will not have mercy on you.". There is also, in the Heike Monogatari, an account of a skilled archer shooting through the shield and armor of a samurai. Both of these are accounts of the Kamakura era, and the armors wouldn't be as durable as later ones, but a severe lack in power would be saying too much.