Orga Airsoft have the KTW Tanegashima available for pre-order:
ORGA AIRSOFT News
KTW TANEGASHIMA will restock 5th July !!
already we received pre order overseas airsoft users, we think it may out of stock at an early stage.
Don’t miss this opportunity !
They may close pre order, Please understand in that case.
Tanegashima Pre order here
https://orga-airsoft.com/products/detail.php?product_id=267
Tanegashima (種子島), also hinawajū (火縄銃), was a type of matchlock configuredrquebus firearm introduced to Japan through the Portuguese in 1543.
Tanegashima were used by the samurai class and their foot soldiers (ashigaru) and within a few years the introduction of the tanegashima in battle changed the way war was fought in Japan forever.
The tanegashima seems to have been based on snap matchlocks that were produced in Portuguese Malacca, at the armory of Malacca (a colony of Portugal since 1511). The name tanegashima came from the Japanese island (Tanegashima) where a Chinese junk with Portuguese adventurers on board was driven to anchor by a storm in 1543. The lord of the Japanese island, Tanegashima Tokitaka (1528–1579), purchased two matchlock muskets from the Portuguese and put a swordsmith to work copying the matchlock barrel and firing mechanism.
