1:28 Yeah, this is a real name (not Himiko’s attendant!), look it up! Do you have a hard name to pronounce/spell? Himiko shirt and more: teespring.com/queen-himiko1
Being a Japanese, the video series are very admirable...I deeply support you! At its primitive point, Japan had tradition which is characterized by women's presence. This is unique tendency worldly. Ancient Japan worshiped Sun Goddess Amaterasu and got many empress like Empress Suiko. Moreover even Genji Monogatari, which is first literature of this world, was written by the court lady at Heian period. But the tradition gradually changed by continuous wars which led dramatic rise of warrior class who holds masculine and paternal culture. Similar phenomenon are observed in Qin, which was first united dynasty of China.
it is a very interesting point, I did not know the importance of queens in ancient history, they were practically the hand of god instead of what is commonly known as a king or emperor thanks for sharing!
たにし長者 wait a 2nd isn't books n literature were first invented in middle East then India then china then Egypt n then Greece.....?cmon vedas were written in 1400bce...
Genji Monogatari is acknowledged as a first literature written in a form of so-called novel. A first books are of course these books mentioned by you. Novel and Myth and Legend and Poem have different spheres.
たにし長者 u mean novels?then ok the Persian n indians didn't write novels btw so u may be right......but the Vedas were not mythological books but they r medical, scientific n social books u should also read ayourveda(the organic medical book)
No.. it is not personally like today! She had her special task - and garanteed her people a time of growth and peace. More than most politicians are able to...
I guess... myth was based on true story, but with a broken depiction. Just like a leprechaun,probably just a human name, but keeping a gold in a pot that can reflected the colors of rainbow... IDK
Imma revive this dead chain as I just finished watching tomb raider, and from what I can tell the stories seem to stem from truth but are twisted. She was secluded? She wanted to keep the disease from others. She used to control people with magic? (Kinda what some people back then said) same as the story. She was buried in that big mound? The tomb. And the people that were sacrificed? The warriors that died in "ritual suicide" :) idk I found it kinda cool :D
I know I’m a year late but... I’ve always had this wild theory that Himiko was the real person Amaterasu was based on. Perhaps she followed some early sun kami prototype which gave her that power, but I really think she was the basis for the legend itself. Powerful shaman woman named Sun Girl? Her rituals were based on bronze mirrors that showed people visions? Sounds an awful lot like the sun goddess who came out of seclusion to look at a bronze mirror 🤔 I would postulate that Himiko was promoted to divinity by later descendants, particularly future Emperors who wanted her blessing so they wouldn’t do as bad a job as her immediate successor. I’m particularly drawn to the legend of Ise shrine, which houses Yata-no-Kagami, the mirror of Amaterasu herself, and one of the Imperial Regalia of Japan. It’s said that Yamatohime-no-mikoto, daughter of 11th Emperor Suinin, wandered for 20 years searching for a place to dedicate worship to Amaterasu. Eventually, she found Ise, and the kami’s voice told her it was “a secluded and pleasant land. In this land I wish to dwell.” Long story short, thus began the tradition of sending a Japanese princess to attend the goddess, where the shrine reportedly still houses the mirror and is strictly forbidden to outsiders. Maybe I’m making causation out of correlation. Maybe these are broader cultural themes without immediate connection: bronze mirrors and seclusion, preferring female attendants, a proud direct bloodline to one woman. Personally, I think the connection is too juicy to pass up.
@@naomiooo6062 Shibatani (1990) describes Old Japanese (which, given is still many HUNDREDs of years after the Yamatai kingdom) as undergoing a sound change from [p] -> [ɸ] -> [h]. You can still see evidence of this in how the "voicing" symbol on /h/ results in a [b] sound (e.g. as [ha・ba], but historically [*pa ・ba]). There are a few written descriptions from the Nara period where Buddhist scholars describe how people pronounce sutra in which this variation is described. In very slow-changing dialects of Japanese (for example, in the southern Ryukyu Islands), there are older speakers who still pronounce Japanese words like /haha/ ("mother") as [papa]. So, the evidence is pretty strong that most of the sounds we say as [h] now were once [p]. Still, the Yamatai were so much earlier than all of that, and didn't have any written records at all, so it's not wholly clear what the language would have actually sounded like then. Like Linfamy states in the video, we don't even know if Yamatai and the later Yamato kingdom are even related or would've spoken closely related languages with similar phonology or not. In particular, the vowels should be viewed very skeptically, since historical phonology of any language that old is a guessing game at best. Shibatani, Masayoshi (1990). The Languages of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36918-3
I love what you showed when you depicted how a ruler's power improves the power of their vassals. You depicted Himiko with 3 Power, and each of her three vassals had 2 Pwr. Meaning that if just over half her vassals rose up against her, they would outpower her. Unless her remaining vassals stayed true and protected her. But she would be vastly outnumbered if all her vassals turned against her. This is true of any ruler and their vassals. As you strengthen your vassals, you also create potential threats with each misstep you take. Not sure that you were trying to make that point so clear, but it was just very well illustrated there.
Linfamy Well, it's funny bro! You know how to making history video and at the same time adding funny cartoon! You are cool bro, keep up the good work!😂😁😃👍
The Yayoi - Nara period is so fascinating! I hope you make more videos about it, like Yamato Takeru and kofun tombs and the shift during the Asuka towards Buddhism, and other stuff. :)
It's funny. I never actually heard of Queen Himiko until I played Tomb Raider 2013. I honestly thought she was a myth created for the game, but I'm surprised to see that she was an actual person!
Aww thank you very much for making these videos! I appreciate that you draw&voice the video and research informations. I’m waiting for the next video! Thanks for showing the wei to us.
it's really really helpful... you made these history videos in a very interesting way😃easy to memorize,.. recently I'm studying the Japanese history, 文学史ect...keep making more history ,folktale, cultural videos like these in such a interesting way!... Btw I'm from India😊🌸
The Egyptian empire lasted for thousands of years. Then it fell when a woman leader was in charge. And have you ever seen a business company with just women? some people tried it and it fell apart very quickly.
And you can also watch another video called "Survival: Men vs Women " where they left some women in a deserted island and some men in another deserted island to see who would do better. The women struggled badly whereas the men by the end of it had created a small village.
@@lyuuy7477 Your point of view is so shortsighted. In case of Egypt, Cleopatra was actually a very successful queen able to keep Romans at bay and using her charm to get an advantage for her country. There were other successful female rulers such as queen Elizabeth I or Austro-Hungarian empress Maria-Theresa.
Your videos are just spectacular! I've been wanting to learn Japanese history for a long time, and this is so interesting! (And funny. Very, very funny.)
Just reminded of how Himiko was contemporaneous to the Thee Kingdoms period, totally forgot about that. I really wish I could travel back in time and see it first hand. I bet the land and the society's going to be really intersting. Oh, also, when we move to Kofun, are you going to cover the Haniwas? I really like to imagine a few hundred of them on a great mound
Another nicely animated and educational video. I hope you get a several more thousand subscribers to reflect the spectacular work you put in to create these videos
Euhemerism: One could argue that she may be Amaterasu herself and founded the imperial Line (Yamatai = early Yamato; Himiko's Mirror = Amaterasu's Mirror), that she was deified and regarded as a "myth" with time 🗻 Best Example for Euhemerism? The "legend" of Troy and Heinrich Schliemann's finding of the actual, historic ruins of Troy. Early History is a botched work mostly but especially when it comes to myths, it gets really convoluted. Maybe not generally but in some cases, it could be a probable explanation that myths were history once of some sort. Just look at the first 25 Emperors of Japan who are regarded as semi-mythical but most likely they represent and/or were mixed up with early rulers at different times, their "official" lifetimes being canonized/estimated/made up by japanese historians of old. They are regarded as myths and their timeframes are pretty much made up. Lifespan is another important point-in earlier days, it could easily happen that rulers who lived to be 90 or even a 100 Years old were regarded as nearly immortal and with time and fading memory their lifespans were stretched to hundreds or thousands of years (like the first chinese emperors)...🐉 -> Like in earlier times people would explain a volcanic eruption or meteor shower with the wrath of a god 🌠☀
On the other hand, Euhemerism can also distort actual history. Like how Sima Qian euhemerized ''actually worshipped'' ancient chinese deities into prehistoric emperors.
I'm so invested I want to know more about Himiko and her relative Iyo. They were so young when they started ruling. And Himiko was a great leader. There were so many powerful women in Japanese history. Why did it suddenly switch to male domination?
When I heard the full name of the only one male attendant ... I started laughing really seriously 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Then I started to think how to write it in カタカナ！
Dude, you are THE S***, seriously, my new favourite you tuber hands down, been watching since the start of the history videos (found them when searching for something EXACTLY like what you provided, thanks buddy ^_^), and you’re so funny and great at not overloading us with jargon so that we. Actually. Learn. :0 I’m a teensy bit obsessed with Japan and this is helping so much, while giving me a great laugh, keep up the good work and I can’t wait to check out your other stuff!
To understand Himiko, you must understand the chronology of Hinotori. Hinotori appeared numerous times, but the two that are relevant to Himiko are, 108 AD and 246 AD. In 108 AD, Hinotori appeared and caused a period of “70 or 80 years of disturbances and warfare” (72 years to be exact). In 180 AD, Himiko assumed the throne. After a period of 66 years, Hinotori appeared in 246 AD and blotted out the Sun. The people revolted against her, and she would ask for help from China, but it would be too late. She would die a year later. This is likely the source of The Legend of Amaterasu, with the story of JIMMU coming after the events of Himiko.
My first thought when hearing some Chinese records say Himiko's brother was the real power was that it's very possible they simply dismissed her as the ruler because she was a woman. They probably just assumed it had to be her brother who really ran everything because the thought of a woman holding absolute power in such a way was inconceivable to them. And the fact that some sources described her as some sort of witch also lends creedens to this, because historically, saying a woman's power came from magic has been a common way for misogynistic societies to discredit said woman's achievements
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Your videos are really, really good. So much so that I've been watching them so often that I just realized I wasn't subscribed, because the only videos that have been suggested to me recently have been your videos. I fixed that quickly, now subscribed, found your channel a week ago
This is an underrated channel. Also, what was of the Emishi/Jomon/Ainu during the Yamatai period? Were they still holed up in northern Japan fighting against the Yayoi, or had they been pushed out into Hokkaido at that point?
Above mentioned conflicts were only in western parts of Japan, and in this time, respective kingdoms have no power to make footsteps in eastern parts of Japan because of their primitive status. So, probably in this time, People of East lived in their sphere freely(First written Conquests of East is 5 century at least, and complete conquest was 9 century). Also, western Japanese had blood of Jomon and Yayoi, but eastern Japanese had blood of Jomon because Yayoi people landed around Western parts of Japan and mixed with Jomon. As an axis of conflicts, I think that it is more better.
Emperor Showa also lived in isolation from his people, until 1945. So we can understand how Himiko could be the supreme ruler while only interacting through one person.
even since the meiji restoration with their constitution, the emperor's power was and still is limited by his ministers. what the yomi is the meaning of this???
Good video. Most scholars believe the Yamatai kingdom is the precursor to Yamato (as you mentioned), and that Himiko was buried in an early keyhole kofun near the town of Sakurai in southern Nara Prefecture. It's called the Hashihaka kofun, and the locals call it the Honbo (dragonfly) kofun. It's on an ancient road known as the Yamanobei no Michi running North to South. I lived near Nara City for 12 years and saw it hiking the old aforementioned road in 2006. If you look at a map or airial picture of the region, draw a line with your finger from Kyoto (Heian-kyo) south, following towns and cities, you'll see several places that periods of Japanese history are named after (Heian-kyo, Nara [Heijo-kyo], Asuka), and many other places associated with Japanese history (Ise, Kashihara [Fujiwara-kyo], Miwa...). The capitol cities were built in a grid patterned after Xian, China. An interesting illustration of the ancient pecking order is to count the claws on dragons in their artwork. China-5 claws, Korea- 4 toes, Japan- 3 toes. Anyway, the richness of history and archaeology in the Kinki region (the heart of the Yamato kingdom) suggests it's significance into antiquity and a major reason why many scholars believe that that's where Yamatai was.
One vid led me to another and all of sudden i stumble across your vids lol but I actually enjoy them can’t wait for the next one. Now how did i go from anime vids to this 🤔
in real life, caring for a girl chosen to be a shaman is a little bit of a tedious job. this girl also stays all her life to old age as a granny secluded there. in the philippines, some little villages secluded deep within inland and mountains still do this practice. not sure if its the same as old japan but the practice is similar in some ways. that is the binukot and/or the babaylan. in philippine prehispanic history at least in what little else is known about it, women played a part as wise and/or beautiful old ladies in traditional religious customs and such. perhaps japan shows its old mysterious unrecorded jomon connections in this way also.
The Yamatai kingdom with its capital Yamato in Oriental Blue! The secluded country of The Northern Star who considers war to be sacred and has a council of war priestesses with male generals assigned to each of them in Suikoden Tierkreis! Man I love seeing fiction reference historical events
You could not have made these videos at a better moment. I have to know all of this for my college and I have some very important tests coming up soon. (By soon, I mean tomorrow xd)
Okay, I'm like five years late but I just started playing Tomb Raider 2013, so I wanted to know more about Yamatai and Queen Himiko. Unfortunately, Google didn't give me much info on her and what info I could find I had trouble getting through because I've got a bad case of textbook burnout. So thank you for making this video. It really helps me.
Very nice, as always! Keep up the good work! One minor point, though: you mention towards the end of your video that the association of the ruler with kami was the basis for political legitimacy in Japan all the way until the 1950's. This is.... technically true, but rather misleading. By the time a truly unified state had been established during the Nara period, the religious undertones of rule in Japan had fallen, and certainly by the time of the Ashikaga Shogunate and the Sengoku Jidai, it was utterly irrelevant as real political power wasn't even in the hands of the Emperor anymore.
Also, another important point is that after Mononobe Clan fell to Soga Clan, Buddhism was becoming more popular in Japan. In 9th century, already 本地垂迹 started appearing making Shinto gods only Buddhist gods.
Not so sure about that. Remember Oda Nobunaga's constant deliberate mockery of Japanese religiousness. And despite the fact that Oda clan was the strongest clan in Japan by far and Nobunaga was, at that time, by all intense and purpose, ruler of Japan; his blasphemous ways eventually turned one of his most loyal vassal who owes all his power and wealth to Nobunaga by the way against him and assassinated him for "Greater Good?" I don't think Hononji Assassination is about political power grab since Akechi Mitsuhide was so easily defeated and so quickly afterwards by other Oda vassals that competed in who can crush Mitsuhide first to claim the title of the Avenger of Nobunaga and succeed like a pack of hungry wolves. The fact of his quick and easy total defeat and death showed that he was never remotely close to the place of challenging Nobunaga's authority militarily or politically. He had to know what he did was a suicidal move for himself and his clan and his days were numbered after Honnoji incident.
What if Himiko *was* Amaterasu? Like, what if the concept of a sun goddess being a super important figure in the religion is actually derived from Himiko's greatness?
1:28 Yeah, this is a real name (not Himiko’s attendant!), look it up! Do you have a hard name to pronounce/spell?
Himiko shirt and more: teespring.com/queen-himiko1
Ha ha lol.Some where a dynastic spirit is rolling their eyes and shaking their head. :P
Steven Green that's a lot like how I imagine viewers of these videos :)
hahaha he bite a cop
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Being a Japanese, the video series are very admirable...I deeply support you!
At its primitive point, Japan had tradition which is characterized by women's presence. This is unique tendency worldly. Ancient Japan worshiped Sun Goddess Amaterasu and got many empress like Empress Suiko. Moreover even Genji Monogatari, which is first literature of this world, was written by the court lady at Heian period. But the tradition gradually changed by continuous wars which led dramatic rise of warrior class who holds masculine and paternal culture. Similar phenomenon are observed in Qin, which was first united dynasty of China.
it is a very interesting point, I did not know the importance of queens in ancient history, they were practically the hand of god instead of what is commonly known as a king or emperor
thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing man, and I thought Himiko was just a Chinese fantasy of cute Japanese girls...
たにし長者 wait a 2nd isn't books n literature were first invented in middle East then India then china then Egypt n then Greece.....?cmon vedas were written in 1400bce...
Genji Monogatari is acknowledged as a first literature written in a form of so-called novel. A first books are of course these books mentioned by you. Novel and Myth and Legend and Poem have different spheres.
たにし長者 u mean novels?then ok the Persian n indians didn't write novels btw so u may be right......but the Vedas were not mythological books but they r medical, scientific n social books u should also read ayourveda(the organic medical book)
the greatest most introverted female ruler in history ?
That would be me as emperor, lol
Lol
Himiko: I speak for the kamis
And the kamis said to leave me alone plz
Queen Himiko can't communicate
No.. it is not personally like today! She had her special task - and garanteed her people a time of growth and peace. More than most politicians are able to...
And i thought Himiko was a myth just like in Tomb Raider.....
Nah she was real, although you shouldn't believe the other stuff Tomb Raider says about Himiko... =)
Linfamy Oh yeah, I never take any of that stuff seriously in Tomb Raider...Same with Indiana Jones....
Wait, Indiana Jones is inaccurate? Noooo
I guess... myth was based on true story, but with a broken depiction.
Just like a leprechaun,probably just a human name, but keeping a gold in a pot that can reflected the colors of rainbow... IDK
Imma revive this dead chain as I just finished watching tomb raider, and from what I can tell the stories seem to stem from truth but are twisted. She was secluded? She wanted to keep the disease from others. She used to control people with magic? (Kinda what some people back then said) same as the story. She was buried in that big mound? The tomb. And the people that were sacrificed? The warriors that died in "ritual suicide" :) idk I found it kinda cool :D
I know I’m a year late but...
I’ve always had this wild theory that Himiko was the real person Amaterasu was based on. Perhaps she followed some early sun kami prototype which gave her that power, but I really think she was the basis for the legend itself. Powerful shaman woman named Sun Girl? Her rituals were based on bronze mirrors that showed people visions? Sounds an awful lot like the sun goddess who came out of seclusion to look at a bronze mirror 🤔
I would postulate that Himiko was promoted to divinity by later descendants, particularly future Emperors who wanted her blessing so they wouldn’t do as bad a job as her immediate successor. I’m particularly drawn to the legend of Ise shrine, which houses Yata-no-Kagami, the mirror of Amaterasu herself, and one of the Imperial Regalia of Japan. It’s said that Yamatohime-no-mikoto, daughter of 11th Emperor Suinin, wandered for 20 years searching for a place to dedicate worship to Amaterasu. Eventually, she found Ise, and the kami’s voice told her it was “a secluded and pleasant land. In this land I wish to dwell.” Long story short, thus began the tradition of sending a Japanese princess to attend the goddess, where the shrine reportedly still houses the mirror and is strictly forbidden to outsiders.
Maybe I’m making causation out of correlation. Maybe these are broader cultural themes without immediate connection: bronze mirrors and seclusion, preferring female attendants, a proud direct bloodline to one woman. Personally, I think the connection is too juicy to pass up.
Yeah, wish we had a time machine. It could also be that a sun goddess belief already existed, and Himiko took advantage of it.
Apparently, her name in ancient Japanese was actually pronounced Pimiko.
True
pimiko yumeno
Source?
@@naomiooo6062 Shibatani (1990) describes Old Japanese (which, given is still many HUNDREDs of years after the Yamatai kingdom) as undergoing a sound change from [p] -> [ɸ] -> [h]. You can still see evidence of this in how the "voicing" symbol on /h/ results in a [b] sound (e.g. as [ha・ba], but historically [*pa ・ba]). There are a few written descriptions from the Nara period where Buddhist scholars describe how people pronounce sutra in which this variation is described. In very slow-changing dialects of Japanese (for example, in the southern Ryukyu Islands), there are older speakers who still pronounce Japanese words like /haha/ ("mother") as [papa]. So, the evidence is pretty strong that most of the sounds we say as [h] now were once [p]. Still, the Yamatai were so much earlier than all of that, and didn't have any written records at all, so it's not wholly clear what the language would have actually sounded like then. Like Linfamy states in the video, we don't even know if Yamatai and the later Yamato kingdom are even related or would've spoken closely related languages with similar phonology or not. In particular, the vowels should be viewed very skeptically, since historical phonology of any language that old is a guessing game at best. Shibatani, Masayoshi (1990). The Languages of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36918-3
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Started watching your japanese history videos just 2 hours ago and I gotta say they are very good. Keep on it waiting for the next vid.
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I love what you showed when you depicted how a ruler's power improves the power of their vassals.
You depicted Himiko with 3 Power, and each of her three vassals had 2 Pwr. Meaning that if just over half her vassals rose up against her, they would outpower her. Unless her remaining vassals stayed true and protected her.
But she would be vastly outnumbered if all her vassals turned against her.
This is true of any ruler and their vassals. As you strengthen your vassals, you also create potential threats with each misstep you take.
Not sure that you were trying to make that point so clear, but it was just very well illustrated there.
And the bottom part is peasants. If all peasants opposed any ruling then any government will be toppled. Anarchy Rules!
Great video man!
Love your drawings :)
Thank you so much!
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Man 1: Is this the right Wei?
Man 2: No, no, I'll show you the Wei. LMAO 😂😂😂
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Linfamy Well, it's funny bro! You know how to making history video and at the same time adding funny cartoon! You are cool bro, keep up the good work!😂😁😃👍
Thank you man, that's nice of you to say 😊
Yes, show the Wei to Wei's leader Cao Pi*.
*An unmarried queen with a male attendant on a well-protected and secluded palace....* 😏😏😏
Nothing untowards going on there...
Disgusting people.
@@natalkumar6132 agreed
Slightly less suspicious than Queen Elizabeth I of England, I guess?
What-
Thank you for doing this video! I adore Queen Himiko!
Yeah she's pretty awesome. I hope you live that long too ;)
Queen himiko is my favorite character from the Japanese history, wish we could have known more about her
We have enough for a syndicated Disney adaptation. Get Cartoon Network to select the musicians though.
@@blenderbanana A chronicle, of Princess Himiko. A Toonami Production.
The Yayoi - Nara period is so fascinating! I hope you make more videos about it, like Yamato Takeru and kofun tombs and the shift during the Asuka towards Buddhism, and other stuff. :)
Oh yes, getting to those topics as we move forward in time =)
YATTA~! ^0^ Thank you so much for this channel.
No, thank YOU for watching
I can learn Japanese history and English at the same time. I love your channel !
Thank you :)
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It's funny. I never actually heard of Queen Himiko until I played Tomb Raider 2013. I honestly thought she was a myth created for the game, but I'm surprised to see that she was an actual person!
Yep! I saw the tomb raider movie and looks like they took liberties with her story :p
@@Linfamy "History, is fiction, declared real, by nerds." -Napoleon Dynamite, probably
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she is a myth in terms of what is said about her, but she was a powerful ruler of her time.
The game one seems to have nothing to do with the real one, though.
Aww thank you very much for making these videos! I appreciate that you draw&voice the video and research informations. I’m waiting for the next video! Thanks for showing the wei to us.
Thanks for watching, glad you like it!
I really enjoy your videos about Japan's history 😍. I was always in love with Japan and these give me chance to learn new things. ありがとう！🙇
I'm glad you like them! I'm also in love with Japan, but you know that already :p
Hoping to visit Japan soon and not embarrass myself too much. Thank you very much for the crush cartoons on Japan!
Thank you so much! And hope you have fun in Japan :)
I like your drawing style btw 😄
1:30 I think Beezow Doo-doo is Ainu people....
Thank you!
Do your best for the next video! 💪
Will try!
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it's really really helpful... you made these history videos in a very interesting way😃easy to memorize,.. recently I'm studying the Japanese history, 文学史ect...keep making more history ,folktale, cultural videos like these in such a interesting way!... Btw I'm from India😊🌸
You are the man! I see a bright future for you as history youtuber :D
No, YOU are the man
This is absolutely fascinating!😃💖 You're right though it's frustrating how it just ends suddenly. It's like wait where's the rest of the story?😮
So let me get this straight. When women ruled there was peace and land prospered. When a man took over, it all fell to ruins. It makes you think...
The Egyptian empire lasted for thousands of years. Then it fell when a woman leader was in charge. And have you ever seen a business company with just women? some people tried it and it fell apart very quickly.
And you can also watch another video called "Survival: Men vs Women
" where they left some women in a deserted island and some men in another deserted island to see who would do better. The women struggled badly whereas the men by the end of it had created a small village.
@@lyuuy7477 Your point of view is so shortsighted. In case of Egypt, Cleopatra was actually a very successful queen able to keep Romans at bay and using her charm to get an advantage for her country. There were other successful female rulers such as queen Elizabeth I or Austro-Hungarian empress Maria-Theresa.
Your videos are just spectacular! I've been wanting to learn Japanese history for a long time, and this is so interesting! (And funny. Very, very funny.)
Woohoo! Glad you like them =)
I’m glad somebody did a video on her they’re actually kind a hard to find on TH-cam !
Glad you like it!
Just reminded of how Himiko was contemporaneous to the Thee Kingdoms period, totally forgot about that. I really wish I could travel back in time and see it first hand. I bet the land and the society's going to be really intersting.
Oh, also, when we move to Kofun, are you going to cover the Haniwas? I really like to imagine a few hundred of them on a great mound
I know right? It reminds you that all kinds of interesting things happened simultaneously in history.
Cover haniwas, got it.
Meanwhile, in Rome, things were also going to hell, with emperors being killed left and right
Some of Koei's ROTK simulation games have Himiko's Yamatai as a playable faction..
Yeah that's a total shock to me as I played Musou/Warriors Orichi and Himiko appeared a lot more ancient
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Another nicely animated and educational video. I hope you get a several more thousand subscribers to reflect the spectacular work you put in to create these videos
Thank you!
Thought tomb raider wasnt exactly based on real story, but the history behind it was amazing :D
Euhemerism: One could argue that she may be Amaterasu herself and founded the imperial Line (Yamatai = early Yamato; Himiko's Mirror = Amaterasu's Mirror), that she was deified and regarded as a "myth" with time 🗻
Best Example for Euhemerism?
The "legend" of Troy and Heinrich Schliemann's finding of the actual, historic ruins of Troy.
Early History is a botched work mostly but especially when it comes to myths, it gets really convoluted.
Maybe not generally but in some cases, it could be a probable explanation that myths were history once of some sort.
Just look at the first 25 Emperors of Japan who are regarded as semi-mythical but most likely they represent and/or were mixed up with early rulers at different times, their "official" lifetimes being canonized/estimated/made up by japanese historians of old.
They are regarded as myths and their timeframes are pretty much made up. Lifespan is another important point-in earlier days, it could easily happen that rulers who lived to be 90 or even a 100 Years old were regarded as nearly immortal and with time and fading memory their lifespans were stretched to hundreds or thousands of years (like the first chinese emperors)...🐉
-> Like in earlier times people would explain a volcanic eruption or meteor shower with the wrath of a god 🌠☀
On the other hand, Euhemerism can also distort actual history.
Like how Sima Qian euhemerized ''actually worshipped'' ancient chinese deities into prehistoric emperors.
This is an extraordinary series. I am on my 2nd viewing and I have dozens of pages of Notes. Thank You.
Hope more people could see your contents.. it's really well made and deserve more views
Thanks, I appreciate it!
looking forward for more, man!
I'm so invested I want to know more about Himiko and her relative Iyo. They were so young when they started ruling. And Himiko was a great leader. There were so many powerful women in Japanese history. Why did it suddenly switch to male domination?
Because when you combine a biological strength advantage with narcissism and stupidity, that's usually what happens
Becz.....c'mon bro
they are wom....
1:28 the male attendant was actually Nashime 難升米
I know her through FGO. I thought she was just some dignified airhead waifu, but she actually sounds like a badass🔥🔥
*When some random dude on YT teaches you better than your history teacher*
When I heard the full name of the only one male attendant ... I started laughing really seriously 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Then I started to think how to write it in カタカナ！
Love your videos. Not japanese so i learn a lot from these.. love from Sri Lanka. 🇱🇰 🇱🇰
Thanks! Hi Sri Lanka!
Dude, you are THE S***, seriously, my new favourite you tuber hands down, been watching since the start of the history videos (found them when searching for something EXACTLY like what you provided, thanks buddy ^_^), and you’re so funny and great at not overloading us with jargon so that we. Actually. Learn. :0 I’m a teensy bit obsessed with Japan and this is helping so much, while giving me a great laugh, keep up the good work and I can’t wait to check out your other stuff!
Thanks for the nice words, I'm glad you like the videos =). It's comments like these that keep me going
From what little there was recorded it's actually still very interesting :D
MUCH better ending this time
Haha thanks =)
Every time I hear amaterasu, I think of Naruto...
Understandable
Same
I always thought if Queen Himiko from Okami
Varnel Kythe everytime I see himiko I think of himiko Togata from my hero academia
himikos stand 「here comes the sun」 was just better than the other stands
I'm loving all your pop culture references =)
And your art really is great. Awesome style.
Thank you! =)
Oooof you're so underrated
That's what I keep telling my mom, but she's all like..."Go to med school"
ooooof you're relatable too
ikr he needs to be recognized by some bigger youtuber
YES FINALLY LINFAMY DOES A VIDEO ON YAMATAI!!! IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE TOMB RAIDER: A SURVIVOR IS BORN CAME OUT!!!!
Finally? I made this vid ages ago ;)
@@Linfamy BRUH. Just now in my recommendations? TH-cam, this is BLASPHEMY 😭
@@gloomshroom7880 curse you TH-cam!!
To understand Himiko, you must understand the chronology of Hinotori.
Hinotori appeared numerous times, but the two that are relevant to Himiko are, 108 AD and 246 AD.
In 108 AD, Hinotori appeared and caused a period of “70 or 80 years of disturbances and warfare” (72 years to be exact).
In 180 AD, Himiko assumed the throne.
After a period of 66 years, Hinotori appeared in 246 AD and blotted out the Sun.
The people revolted against her, and she would ask for help from China, but it would be too late. She would die a year later.
This is likely the source of The Legend of Amaterasu, with the story of JIMMU coming after the events of Himiko.
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Don't mind me, just binge watching your videos, AGAIN.
Awesome, totally approve 😉
That commie part killed me
=D
@Hoàng Nguyên Vietnam ?
I love japanese anime, culture and food, i've subscribed to the channel :D
Welcome! Japanese food is definitely my favorite =)
Love these older linfamy illustrations
Fantastic video as always...
Thank you!
Another great video :)
Thank you much!
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My first thought when hearing some Chinese records say Himiko's brother was the real power was that it's very possible they simply dismissed her as the ruler because she was a woman. They probably just assumed it had to be her brother who really ran everything because the thought of a woman holding absolute power in such a way was inconceivable to them. And the fact that some sources described her as some sort of witch also lends creedens to this, because historically, saying a woman's power came from magic has been a common way for misogynistic societies to discredit said woman's achievements
When FGO motivates you to learn more about history~
Have you ever played Eiyu Senki ;-)
Lmao Yes
Himiko himiko himi himiko himi himi himiko miko himiko
Linfamy! Dude I know u are reading this 😂
Just to remind u I love ur work and I have watched all the previous episodes since last month! Make more お願いします
Thank you! Always nice to hear people like the videos =)
Watched a few videos. Worth subscribing! Also love ❤️ the drawings
thank you for telling me about my past life
Nice video! I waiting for Nobunaga/Hideyoshi and Tokugawa age lol
Ooh, that may take a while =)
Yeah, be prepared to wait a few centuries.
Your videos are really, really good. So much so that I've been watching them so often that I just realized I wasn't subscribed, because the only videos that have been suggested to me recently have been your videos. I fixed that quickly, now subscribed, found your channel a week ago
Thanks! It seems TH-cam is suggesting these videos. Looks like my bribe money is paying off.
Thanks for helping me pass my mythology test fam
Congrats! 👏
Like the shaman Queen idea - detecting a little narrator frustration. 👍🏻
As a Chinese，I did read some records about this queen in some Chinese history books.
OMG this video shows me da wei, keep going man. I'll sacrifice my self as well
Haha...will this be the first cult that started from a TH-cam channel?
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Dude, your videos are hilarious and awesome. Rock on.
Thanks!
Love your vids ❤️ keep up the good work sir!!
Why thank you! I'll keep chugging along
Keep this up you will be my new history teacher
See the next video to not find out because we don't fking know!
Greatest line ever. of all time.
1:14
Your Himiko looks so cool!
No wonder the people chose her to rule.
Really enjoy this, keep it up. :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Me after playing tomb raider
*You know I'm something of a historian myself*
Me too
Love your videos man, I'm saying 100000 subs before you know it. So good.
Thank you! Glad you like it =)
Draw more "nice things"
Haha that will turn this into a different channel.
Linfamy Well if you ever start to draw more nice things, make sure to give us a link to where you post it =)
;)
Haha creepy
0:33 FUCK. that eargasm.
Haha do you like ASMR?
This is an underrated channel.
Also, what was of the Emishi/Jomon/Ainu during the Yamatai period? Were they still holed up in northern Japan fighting against the Yayoi, or had they been pushed out into Hokkaido at that point?
Above mentioned conflicts were only in western parts of Japan, and in this time, respective kingdoms have no power to make footsteps in eastern parts of Japan because of their primitive status. So, probably in this time, People of East lived in their sphere freely(First written Conquests of East is 5 century at least, and complete conquest was 9 century).
Also, western Japanese had blood of Jomon and Yayoi, but eastern Japanese had blood of Jomon because Yayoi people landed around Western parts of Japan and mixed with Jomon. As an axis of conflicts, I think that it is more better.
Emperor Showa also lived in isolation from his people, until 1945. So we can understand how Himiko could be the supreme ruler while only interacting through one person.
even since the meiji restoration with their constitution, the emperor's power was and still is limited by his ministers. what the yomi is the meaning of this???
cute illustrations! easy way to learn japanese history!
Glad you like :)
Awesome video as always !
Learning this makes me more proud to be Japanese.
Wow she's like Elizabeth before Elizabeth, can someone make a movie about Himiko!
Queen Elizabeth I was Queen Himiko in a past life because they were both unmarried.
People like Linfamy are how history teachers should be. I might have gotten better than a D in my Japanese History class, lol.
Good video. Most scholars believe the Yamatai kingdom is the precursor to Yamato (as you mentioned), and that Himiko was buried in an early keyhole kofun near the town of Sakurai in southern Nara Prefecture. It's called the Hashihaka kofun, and the locals call it the Honbo (dragonfly) kofun. It's on an ancient road known as the Yamanobei no Michi running North to South. I lived near Nara City for 12 years and saw it hiking the old aforementioned road in 2006. If you look at a map or airial picture of the region, draw a line with your finger from Kyoto (Heian-kyo) south, following towns and cities, you'll see several places that periods of Japanese history are named after (Heian-kyo, Nara [Heijo-kyo], Asuka), and many other places associated with Japanese history (Ise, Kashihara [Fujiwara-kyo], Miwa...). The capitol cities were built in a grid patterned after Xian, China. An interesting illustration of the ancient pecking order is to count the claws on dragons in their artwork. China-5 claws, Korea- 4 toes, Japan- 3 toes. Anyway, the richness of history and archaeology in the Kinki region (the heart of the Yamato kingdom) suggests it's significance into antiquity and a major reason why many scholars believe that that's where Yamatai was.
One vid led me to another and all of sudden i stumble across your vids lol but I actually enjoy them can’t wait for the next one. Now how did i go from anime vids to this 🤔
The TH-cam algorithm has taken me to very weird places before...
Keep it up! You really got something good going here.
Thank you!
I want Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop’s job. Himiko is a cutie!
Great job again!
Nice job spelling it correctly. I nearly uploaded the video with the name misspelled!
in real life, caring for a girl chosen to be a shaman is a little bit of a tedious job. this girl also stays all her life to old age as a granny secluded there. in the philippines, some little villages secluded deep within inland and mountains still do this practice. not sure if its the same as old japan but the practice is similar in some ways. that is the binukot and/or the babaylan. in philippine prehispanic history at least in what little else is known about it, women played a part as wise and/or beautiful old ladies in traditional religious customs and such. perhaps japan shows its old mysterious unrecorded jomon connections in this way also.
xXxSkyViperxXx stop trying to put me off, she’s mine not yours!
On a serious note that’s pretty interesting
xXxSkyViperxXx thanks for sharing, that's very interesting!
The Yamatai kingdom with its capital Yamato in Oriental Blue!
The secluded country of The Northern Star who considers war to be sacred and has a council of war priestesses with male generals assigned to each of them in Suikoden Tierkreis!
Man I love seeing fiction reference historical events
Thx for information about her i also watch your other videos
Thanks for watching!
no, she's a magical girl that got a contract from an immortal bunny/cat thing, and is fighting witches
Bunny Cat is a dick.
And then brought to heaven by a goddess with pink hair
You could not have made these videos at a better moment. I have to know all of this for my college and I have some very important tests coming up soon. (By soon, I mean tomorrow xd)
Good luck with your tests!
Okay, I'm like five years late but I just started playing Tomb Raider 2013, so I wanted to know more about Yamatai and Queen Himiko. Unfortunately, Google didn't give me much info on her and what info I could find I had trouble getting through because I've got a bad case of textbook burnout. So thank you for making this video. It really helps me.
Everytime you say* kami I kept hearing the Soviet anthem, but still great video 👍🏼
😂
I liked this video thank you
Glad you like it :)
@@Linfamy thank you
I better get my notifications 😤...
Or else.
Very nice, as always! Keep up the good work! One minor point, though: you mention towards the end of your video that the association of the ruler with kami was the basis for political legitimacy in Japan all the way until the 1950's. This is.... technically true, but rather misleading. By the time a truly unified state had been established during the Nara period, the religious undertones of rule in Japan had fallen, and certainly by the time of the Ashikaga Shogunate and the Sengoku Jidai, it was utterly irrelevant as real political power wasn't even in the hands of the Emperor anymore.
Good point! Although they always asserted the emperor's divine ancestry, the emperor eventually became a figurehead.
Also, another important point is that after Mononobe Clan fell to Soga Clan, Buddhism was becoming more popular in Japan. In 9th century, already 本地垂迹 started appearing making Shinto gods only Buddhist gods.
Not so sure about that. Remember Oda Nobunaga's constant deliberate mockery of Japanese religiousness. And despite the fact that Oda clan was the strongest clan in Japan by far and Nobunaga was, at that time, by all intense and purpose, ruler of Japan; his blasphemous ways eventually turned one of his most loyal vassal who owes all his power and wealth to Nobunaga by the way against him and assassinated him for "Greater Good?" I don't think Hononji Assassination is about political power grab since Akechi Mitsuhide was so easily defeated and so quickly afterwards by other Oda vassals that competed in who can crush Mitsuhide first to claim the title of the Avenger of Nobunaga and succeed like a pack of hungry wolves. The fact of his quick and easy total defeat and death showed that he was never remotely close to the place of challenging Nobunaga's authority militarily or politically. He had to know what he did was a suicidal move for himself and his clan and his days were numbered after Honnoji incident.
What if Himiko *was* Amaterasu? Like, what if the concept of a sun goddess being a super important figure in the religion is actually derived from Himiko's greatness?
“Meeting Destiny” on the calendar 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Gonna bing watch this whole playlist
I approve ;)
Such a great orator!