How to counter Turks with Japanese

I know the answer to this kind of question is always "don't let them get to that stage..." but I'd be interested to know people's thoughts on this matchup. Not really about this actual game, more of a general civ matchup/counters question.

The game:

I'm 1200-1250 elo. I started with 22 pop m@a, got a kill and some idle time so happy with that. Was walled off before his milita got to my base and held off his militia and 5 archers easily with 3 skirms, so I was up to castle pretty quick. I made a couple of knights in early castle but couldnt do much because he was walled and he dropped an immediate defensive castle when he got up and started making jannies. I upgraded to elite skirms and got some good trades vs his jannies but then his light cav with pierce armour came in. Again I traded pretty well with my cavalier vs light cav. But then he went into camels to clear up the cavalier then back to light cav and later hussar. I couldnt get near his bombard cannons with anything - jannies just standing ground beside them. Hussar raided my base left, right and centre and my halbs couldn't keep up with them. I had map control in early castle but it was still pretty even in terms of map area at the end of the game, and I had 120 vills to his 80 (all the way through the game) so my eco was damaged but not ruined. He was just going through my production buildings too fast and i couldn't mass army so i had to resign.

So I felt like I played okay (especially early game) against a civ that I don't personally rate v highly, but still lost. I probably should have attacked him more early castle (forward siege workshop, somwhere out of range of his defensive castle). But this game aside, what is the best strategy in this matchup?

• Should I have gone xbow/pikes (later arbs/halbs) - and is archers the meta for japanese unless they go full UU?
• As above but go HAM (like 1 TC) in early castle to try and prevent the game going to imp?
• Mangos/pikes in castle age?
• Japanese towers (and pay for unique upgrade) for defense against hussar raids (seems expensive and wouldn't really work)?
• Samurai and jannies counter each other but I guessed the samurai would come off worse, right?

One thing I think I'm learning recently that trash counters gold units in early game but in late game even the direct counter doesnt really work - either cos of mobility (in the case of halbs vs cav) or frailty (in the case of skirms). Hussar is the best trash so he beat me on that, I only had light cav.