When People in Japan Got Rich Buying and Selling Poop
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- The poop economy in Edo Japan.
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In mediaeval Europe the leather tanneries used human urine for tanning and softening leather. Poor people sold their pee to tanneries, every family had a special pot for the goods if they could afford it - that's where the sayings "piss-poor" or "they don't have a pot to piss in" comes from
Not only tanning. Stale urine has been used as laundry detergent for millenia.
The romans had a urine tax and the saying "pecunia non olet."
Money doesn't smell.
Pee was also used to make ammunitoon. No kidding.
the dog poop was used at the taneries. the job of the person to pick up dog turds on the street were some of the worst victorian era jobs
Wow.... didn't know that!!! 🤓
@@roiq5263 - Yes, when gunpowder reached Europe, there was another use for pee & poop. A mix of pee & poop, left to rot, results in nitrates (saltpeter) as a byproduct.
Never thought I’d make a whole ass video about poop.
No one did
What a shitty idea you had!
I wanna know, why was Japan so eager to impress the West so much. Every video mentioning Japan's transition into the Meiji Era and WW2 has the words: "To impress Western countries/To avoid embarassing themselves in front of the West/To not look barbaric in front of the West/To copy the West."? In my eyes, Chinese culture looks more eloquent compared to the west. So why does Japan even now act like beta c*ck suckers when faced with Western powers? Like you said in the video, Europe was 10000x less Hygienic before technological advancement. So why did the Europeans suddenly act like their s**t don't stink? I'm sorry but Japan's worship of Europe really p**ses me off and this is coming. Maybe my views are biased in this regard due to my African heritage, who knows. I just need to understand this mindset. Even now in the context of pop culture, I hear that Japanese people where fine with Scarlett Johansson portraying Major Kusanagi. I also saw this worship of Westernness in an anime called Jujutsu Kaisen where the main character said that he is into girls with large b-tts like Jennifer Lawrence. I'm here scratching my head because the whole big b-tt thing is mostly associated with African women and celebrities.
@@kenshix7902 Because they had their asses kicked in Meiji and "worshipped" the West for its technology and modernization. The whole concept of "enriching the nation" (so we can kick the Westerner's asses later on in WW2) propelled the initial pro-Western movement. As for the pop culture part, the occupation of Japan after WW2 definitely posed a huge influence on their interest with the West, and America is the main export of culture in today's world, and Japan is its main "victim".
Yes, I did advertise a food company in a poop video.
Dong farmer eh?
I felt when he said “DiSaPoInTmEnT”, it’s what my parents think of me
Haha oh no, I'm sure they love you
Gotta keep the "business" going, after all.
Brave man
Yeah, in the meantime in London, there was the "great stink" of 1858. After a prolonged hot\dry summer, the River Thames lost several feet of water, exposing walls of pure compacted butt nuggets that had been building up for literal millennia. As it dried, the stench became so bad that life anywhere in the city became unbearable. The Government - who had started hanging ammonia-soaked sheets in their windows, which didn't even help - actually considered abandoning London as the capitol entirely, before eventually agreeing to build a huge new sewer system.
I would love to hop in a time machine and visit London during that time. Just visit.
@@Linfamy It's not quite the same thing, but the game Assassin's Creed Syndicate is set in London just a few years after that. You can even see the sewer being constructed around the city, which was some great attention to detail. You get all the sights and sounds of 19th Century London, but thankfully none of the smells.
The civil engineer who built central London’s sewer system in response to the big stink, Joseph Bazalgette, deserves a medal. Civil engineers like him save more lives than doctors.
@@TheSeanoops Oh yeah, absolutely. And IIRC, it was the largest, most complicated, and most expensive, public works project in history up to that point. And it's still in use today, which is damned impressive.
@@jasonblalock4429 and solved the ground water issue as well.
We had this authour, Vasily Aksyonov, who wrote a dystopian novel about the USSR selling its poop in 2048. He had no idea someone had already had this idea - and realized it 😵
Now I want to read his books xD what were they named?
@@banyalaplace Jeez, only now have I realized that I'd mistakent the name of the authour X(( The authour's Voynovich, and this is the Wikipedia page for the book I was talking about: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_2042. I don't think it's translated to English, but I see that NYT did a review ;)
Ah yes 2048
Fantastic we have skipped 20 years
The Egyptians had even a better idea to solve the farming problem they just used the flooding of the Nile to grow their vegetables river water is very rich and nutrients actually there were wars fought over sea bird and bat guano even now worm castings and fish emulsion and bat and seabird guano are still a huge business worldwide especially in the marijuana business organics can raise the price of your product by quite a bit the difference between organic food and other food is significantly different.
Interesting. Japanese had have a strong culture of being a clean before Industrial revolution in the 19th century Japan.
I live in Germany. I live how the Germans think they are the most progressive and clean culture even though the were walking in there shit a few centuries ago
Yea Edo Japan was the most prosperous time for Japan before modern Japan, so on top of the culture of washing that was already a thing before the Edo period, the economic and political stability and prosperity of the Edo/Tokugawa period made the hygiene situation even better for Japan. On the other hand, for neighboring Korea there was also a strong culture of washing for a very long time, but starting in the 1600s the country went into a general decline due to the war with Japan, rebellions, famine and what not. Due to this, many people became poor and the country in general went through a lot in the late 1500s and most of the 1600s. So good hygiene became less common. Although this isn't the only reason but mostly
@@medeaendor3706 Exaggeration.....
@@medeaendor3706 Watch this, it has information on this very subject. th-cam.com/video/z1m4LYn3mOg/w-d-xo.html
@@medeaendor3706 oml stfu if they're clean now it doesn't matter they used to be dirty
PSA warning! Don't get the idea of thinking pooping into your veggy garden after watching this video. Human diseases can transfer to plants from your poop.
Hah yes, bad idea.
there are people who let poop dry for a year, before using it as fertilizer, hoping this will kill the diseases.
Yes, you are right. We did have the parasite problems in Japan.
There are stories of GIs from the American occupation who got sick after eating local produce because of GI tract bacteria/parasites from human fertilizer. From one “GI” to another....
You can get past that if you can have a hot composting setup that can reach at least 53°C but preferably 60°C
Me: *is eating*
Also me: "Oh look a new video! Nice."
Also also me: *watches video* "OHHHH CRAP... "
Sorry 😅
Linfamy don’t worry man I know your channel will skyrocket I’ve seen like 5 channels all around 75k to 200k subscribers grow to 1 mill in months. I believe in you man and I know your content is easily good enough for this to happen man just be patient and a wave of subscribers will come.
Linfamy I have a feeling that your channel will have massive growth very soon 😃
Pretty shity
me: continues eating (just talk of history of pee and poop does not bother me besides any mentioning of touching the stuff)
"It exploded as much as this channel didn't" when you said that I was confused so I checked your number of subscribers and I can't believe this. This is like my favorite channel ever. You deserve A LOT more than what you have! I hope more and more people will see your value!!
Just a joke, I'm pretty happy with the numbers! Glad you like the channel :D
0:34 foreign visitors were amazed & still get amazed by how clean there cities are.
Yeah they're disturbingly clean.
@@Linfamy combine with fact that you cant find Trash Can or dumpster in cities like Shibuya
@@Linfamy I'd call it delightful.
@@Borderose agreed 😅
I wish I lived in Japan. My state as a whole and especially my city started doing more programs to help the homeless so we wound up with a huge surge of homeless people moving here, to the point that (no joke) we had an increase of roughly 30-50 times what the homeless population was 10 years ago despite the economy actually improving alot. My city now looks like a giant garbage pit and there are streets that look like they belong on the set of a post apocalyptic movie.
Who likes the sayings/proverbs? :P
You ever heard of the English proverb “ if you follow the herd all day, you’ll just be stepping in poop all day”
@@heysiri8748 never heard of that, but it's good 👍
I just searched up English proverbs about poop ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
When i'd drop something my dad would yell "do you have poop in your hands?" Kind of a rude way of saying you're being clumsy in the Netherlands.
I might have daddy issues
What a load of crap, lol
“Japan had a Toilet God.”
Me: I am therefore leaving immediately for Japan, where I intend to live as a god.
Wolfgang Mozart would enjoy this video if he was alive today.
He was so full of shit
Mozart licks arse
@@murder7415 if u can lick slowly, u can lick quickly
So will his student and lover, Amadeus Beethoven.
Whos wolfgang mozart
The Japanese were into reduce, reuse, & recycle long before everyone else. No wonder they still have incredibly advanced recycling systems.
issue is that recycling isnt exactly a good thing since each time you recycle it gets weaker and weaker
@@johnynoway9127 But they did for such a long time
@@johnynoway9127 wdym ? So just throw trash and poop on the street is the better alternative ? Bruh did you even use your brain at all ?
Using night soil in Europe spreads disease. The Japanese are all the same ethnic group so every single one of them already had the same pathogens as everyone else in the country.
One of the "historical" manga titles I am following has some peasants being recruited as "samurai" during the late Edo period (around 1868). Two of the minor characters plan on opening a "night soil" business and plan on using their new status as samurai to get the good poop of the samurai and royalty. They actually spend quite a bit of time planning it and even discuss getting a big enough boat to haul all that night soil.
That does sound interesting 😁👍
What's it called?
What's it called?
What's it called?
Ichigeki by Matsumoto Jiro and Nagai Yoshio. The artwork could be better, but has its own unique style. Fair warning though, adult content.
“Water supply was cleaner than their ‘your-a-peein’ friends”. Yes, I crack myself up. I’ve been locked in my house too damn long lol
I would have laughed even before the Pooh Pox was making its rounds.
Drinking game: take a shot whenever he says “poop”.
Welp ok
You're gonna poop out your liver.
@@Mikeztarp worth it
@@BrickSaturn Yeah, I'd like that evening too!
@Klaidi Rubiku Only one way to find out!
"Silver? SILVER! SIL-VER!? Back in my day we accepted vegetables grown from our bum gifts as payment for our bum gifts, and we liked it! Kids these days demanding SiLvEr for their night soil like they all deserve more from the world!"
Father Linfamy: Hey. Hey, disappointment.
*That was immensely relatable.*
Also, great video. Thank you for leaving some sources in the description. You make really cool videos on... let's say, _interesting_ subjects and I love to learn more.
Also also, nice pun streak.
𝙻𝙾𝙰𝙳𝚂 𝚂𝙷𝙾𝚃𝙶𝚄𝙽--
@@Readund Alright Shawn. Where are you?
"Serious fecal matters". 🤣🤣🤣 THIS is why I subbed, man.
This really changes the meaning of the phrase "Don't lose your shit".
Victor Hugo would love this. He once paused in the middle of a novel to take a whole chapter raging about how Paris was throwing away its valuable rubbish while the fields starved.
You said poop 63 times.
I love your videos and this one made me smile after a difficult day, so rewatching it just to count how many times you said poop was honestly more fun than sitting on a toilet and praying to the toilet God. 🤣
Glad it made a hard day a little less hard
@@Linfamy Thank you! I plan to share the video in the morning with my family so we can all bond and laugh together. We have the same humor so I cannot wait. 😄
Not over breakfast 😱😂
@@Linfamy Oh I have to now! Itll be too great! 🤣
@angeliki5135...😨Thanks a lot😤Now my OCD is making me go back and watch again so I can count his "poops"😢
The people who made ‘two girls, one cup’ also saw the importance of poop...
Seriously though, always love your content so thank u. My mom is Japanese, born and raised, and I’m definitely going to order her that bokksu subscription for a gift. She’s always having our family in Japan send snacks so she will love it. The question is though, will she share? lol
I've never watched that video, and never will 🤢
I didn't share mine 🤤
If you're a that cultured individual, do you also know _2 kids 1 sandbox?_
PS: to Linfamy and any empaths, watching this video is highly discouraged
Linfamy Trust me, that’s a video I wish I could unsee.
edi I haven’t seen it, but after the other video I’m too afraid to lol
I'm interested in how the process worked. Wouldn't just dumping it into a flooded rice field cause parasites? Did they compost it? There are some composting toilets around. The most basic way is to use a bucket and cover the poop with soil. Maybe I should finally read the book "Humanure".
I believe they kept the poop in a dry place for a month or two before using.
Dad: Hey dissapointment.
Us to asian: you are not alone
its his nickname, along with his bro fail abortion
This is actually wonderful how the lack of farmable soil forces people to create more sustainable economy. We can learn a thing or two here.
Laws against, “human waste, animal remains and *dead bodies* the usual things that end up on the streets” 🤣 lol.
India still struggles with those things today
@@Mephitinae Ironic
He must have been to Houston, Tx.
Hey Linfamy
I've been looking forward to your new video all week.
I love how you make Japanese history so light and entertaining.
Thank you, glad you like
When u said “just like this TH-cam channel isn’t “ I felt that 😭
I'm actually eating less snacks than I used to, mostly because my apartment doesn't have a vending machine and I tend to go grocery shopping as little as possible.
That's good for you. I'm eating more because of stocking up. Bad idea :P
“I’m talking about poop here. I can’t get distracted” 😂
Script for this video is superior!
No meat culture - the whole "How vegetarian are/were the Japanese actually" would be a great topic for a video, there seems to be lots of confusion around that.
It's mostly Buddhist influence from Tang China, started from year 675 when Emperor Tenmu banned his citizen from eating beef, chicken, horse's meat, dog's meat and ape's meat.
It’s not that they didn’t eat meat, it’s just that they ate fish instead, which doesn’t need farming as opposed to pigs, or cows.
@@charlotteyu2145 Also Cow, pig and other cattle-like animal need both massive farmland and massive amount of feed for these thing, both thing feudal Japan have eternal shortage of, so it's inevitably going to be a rich-people-only thing.
@@charlotteyu2145 Yes and eating livestock meat is considered a disgrace act in the higher class in Heian Japan. Only eggs, shellfish and fish (both freshwater and saltwater) are acceptable non-vegetarian food for Heian nobilities. Their diet is considered very unhealthy from a modern prespective, with so little meat/protein and way too much pickled vegetables and fine rice, causing their life expectancy to be only around 30. Remember the beriberi disease (linfamy made a video about it)? A number of Heian royalties, both men and women, were killed by it.
Btw Heian commoners doesn't care about the no meat diet code, and they tend to live longer than the nobilities. This diet code started to fade in the Edo period, following the rise of the samurai class.
Btw's btw: Although China brought Buddhist influence to Japan, it never had such a thing as no meat culture, though livestock meat was still limited in the higher class until 20th century. As a native Chinese, I think it's because China have way much territory and way much fertile farmlands than Japan does. These two cultures are kind of similar but also different and both charming in their own ways (I personally like kimono more than hanfu)
Loved the additional 'commentary' about the daimyo who really liked daikons. Great video about how a country with little arable land would need to be very aware of the impacts of over farming and use their resources as efficiently as possible.
Our city zoo (Louisville Zoo in Louisville, KY) collects their animals' poop and sells it in the gift shop -well, outside the gift shop - in bags of sanitized manure. It is called zoopoopiedoo, and it is very popular as to be bought up as soon as it makes it to the gift shop. People love it for their gardens.
Another thing available is a composting toilet with which some people compost their poop with Red Wiggler annelid composting worms. The worms and poop are well away from your hind end.
The glory of vermicomposting is that the worms sanitize the poop and turn it into excellent fertilizer: black gold! It has a lot of nutrients, but also lots of plant - usable nitrogen. And nitrogen is what plants vie for! So a mixture of poop and pee would seem to be ideal for these hero worms!
That's very interesting, and good use of animal waste. Thanks for sharing!
Hey! Fellow Louisville resident. I haven’t ever seen that at the zoo! I guess because I avoid the gift shop. Lmao don’t have money for those prices.
1:14 "hey hey disappointment" "hey dad what's up" fatherly love at its prime
Me: Sees the video
Me: Not sure if true or if a high quality shitpost
From now and forever, I shall recall "poop" only by its one true name - bum gifts!
“Guilds are also great for if you need a healer in your party”
lol
Oh god the puns! The hundreds of beautiful puns!
Thank you Linfamy.
So many good lines in this video 😂
Horses were walking around town like the world was their oyster and the street was their toilet.
Twice something sky rocketed, unlike the channel.
- My own take on that is it's weird it happened twice.
Your daikon drama at 10:34 made me cry too.
Thank you. My genius often goes unappreciated 😥
@@Linfamy Indeed it does, Disappointment.
Agreed, but dai-cahn? You made me mad enough to lose my poop!
@@deanuemura8061 is that not how you pronounce it? 🤔
I can’t tell if you’re serious now. Your pronunciation of names has been really good so this took me by surprise.
Hey Linfamy, I loved the video, looking forward to your next upload
Thank you
That explains why I’ve been seeing gold statues if these “commodities” in Japan.
😅
“Toilet paper god has abandoned this place”
- Sakata Gintoki
I really like how you get the poop on history. These videos are so valuable. So it all makes sense.
This is such a bizarre and informative and at the same time funny video! Thank you and great work you do here!
You did an especially fantastic job with the illustrations and images for this video.
This is simply brilliant.
💗👍
I wasn’t counting, but it was funny when you keep on saying ‘poop’. I’m sorry I was late to your Live.
My guess is 30 times for today’s question.
Just seriously love your humor, your genius puns and historically accurate information delivered in a nonchalant matter is brilliant. I take my hat off to you Sir. You have fast become my favourite creator- every topic you cover is fantastic.
Keep up the good work -you're gonna skyrocket like that bum gifts economy back in the day.
Me: This topic is nasty
Me after 13 mins: Still watching
:0 another video :D can’t wait!
So can we say that having a constipation was kind of bad luck in ancient Japan 😀?
"Stop hoarding your money!"
Lol!! You're holding out on me!
Always amazed me how this channel didn't have more views or subscribers. It's an awesome channel
"There isn't any evidence that they didn't..."
Therefore, by Feynmann's rule of nature, "Any thing that is not forbidden must happen"
(the above 'quote' is a paraphrase from memory, not precise quote)
Not how law works.
I liked your FF7 nod on the finger pointers and sounds
it's stuff like this that made me really appreciate the "poop" episode from desert punk when it was a thing
I was looking for this video the other day on the main channel with no luck. Found it now!
😁👍
I love your humor!!! Educational & fun!! I love your videos!!
The word "Poop" sounds weird to me now.
Just call it Shit
@@FBISHOJI or call it like a childish weeb, "Unchi"
I wanna know the difference between rich and poor poop
Alright fine. Rich poop was fat and greasy while poor poop was small, light, and lonely.
See how hard I work for you :p
Glad you could squeeze this out during lockdown
lmao 😂
haha "guilds are great for when you need a healer for your party" - I enjoy the random obscure rpg references
I love how I’m spending my Monday Listening to a man talk about Poop...
I spent a week researching poop
Linfamy but it was worth it right? 😉
@@sophisticatedchaosgb4794 absolutely :)
Linfamy ❤️
@@Linfamy I bet you had to do a sh*t ton of research.
I have a hard enough time keeping track of what day it is during lockdown...
I'm sorry 😅
Great vid man ! Peace
The phrase "you stole my shit!" has a different meaning in the past...
There's no evidence that they flung poop. There's also no evidence they DIDN'T.
-Linfamy 2020
11:07 “Seriously, Edo’s water system was excellent and they did it without the superior technology of their European friends. The reason it was so good was more than just poop collection but we’re talking about poop here so I can’t get distracted.”
I’d actually really welcome a video about how and why Edo’s water system was so good or maybe the water system and the whole waste (aside from poop, that is) collection system, if there was one.
this video deserves way more views!
Your vids are funny and informative
10:34 im half listening while doing my skincare routine and look back just in time to see a daimyoXdaikon fanfiction-
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First!!
I'm guessing it was 58
I think you said poop for 42 or 41
OR 43
Can’t wait to try your sponsor out. Just just trying and get KitKats from Japan is a mission. This might be an easier route.
The most poop puns I've seen in a video.🤣
You're so awesome, love your videos and glad I watched, shared, liked and subscribed!
Imagine a Daimyo just drunk and talking to his samurai or generals telling them that he told a peasant that I'm so important my literal shit is valued more than you.
You can hear this in almost any customer service interaction in the modern era...
They could have reduced the smell through composting the night soil with leaves or straw.
That was poopin amazing! 😂 Favorite video to date! Cheers from the Philippines! Keep it up Linfamy!
Cheers from USA 😁! Stay safe
@@Linfamy This is the first response I got from a TH-camr! Haha! Just wanted to say thanks for interacting with your community! I appreciate it! :D
Thx for the video
Thanks for watching
If I took a drink every time you said "poop" in this video I'd have alcohol poisoning by the end of it.
random thought
since average height in japan during the edo period was 4'10 so samurais were really just midgets with swords
like levi from aot
But is that proven?
@@medeaendor3706 its called a joke
@@azanmanwar okay sorry, but maybe they really were that small I wouldn't ne surprised
The average Japanese man of today was 5’7” so I could honestly believe that.
I heard that when some Dutch traders visited a port once the local Japanese freaked out thinking that the giant red and blonde haired sailors were oni (like ogres) since they were so barbaric, filthy from months at sea, and stood over a foot taller then the locals.
👏👏👏educational as always
the daimyo daikon story realy touched me...
just like he did the daikons
Sounds like the sod wars. That was some violence over a patch of dark soil
that story about daikon around 10:43 tho lmao
I’m forever referring to my poop as ‘bum gifts’ from now on.
Imagining Linfamy with a camera in one hand, shoving cake into his face with the other. Fabulous job, sir!
It's easier because my hands are not attached to my body.
Legend has it that linfamy is still hearting comments to this day
It is true.
This channel is the shit❗Awesome, literally❗😣😄
OMG, crazy interesting topic! Where do you do your research? Must be original Japanese sources because I have never seen such detail in translation! Thanks for really weird and crazy topics!
It is so easy to learn when the lesson makes you laugh! Teach me more!
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This topic is full of _crap,_ literally
Lol
Welp Ima go
Never knew Japan had one of the world's (literally) shitty economy.
I cried when I heard bokksu because "bok" literally means "sh*t" and bokksu means "sh*tty" in my native language 😂
Me when I see the title: they STILL sell poop. It's just called fertilizer now...
Silly crazy video I love it
Imagine telling what type of poop is richer... yeah couldn’t be me. 😬
I guess I dont need to tell you where I'm watching this.
Does it help?
@@Linfamy surprisingly. Yes.
@@ghostdrew4887 😅🤦♂️
Mr.Hanky made a video about kaka, how nice of him to educate us.
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The daimyo story is great :-D