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Good question. I would say that the knight has a slight advantage in that his armor would have much closer gaps and would be used to a variety of combat systems, given that he would have been in battle against soldiers in other nations in multiple occasions. Samurai armor tended to have somewhat larger gaps, since they didn't really have any thin weapons to speak of. And also, given that the Japanese live on a fairly secluded island, they would have had a very inbred combat system. Their ways of fighting would have been developed with only their ways of fighting in mind, and not, say, the Chinese or the Mongols' ways of combat.