You should be awarded by the ministries of education and foreign affairs of Japan. Besides, your videos are good for us, native Japanese, to learn about Japan in English. Very entertaining. Thank you!
This channel is a GEM. I can't believe how underrated it is. I am studying Japanese History in Japanese and this has helped me greatly. :) Appreciate all the exquisite work and the utilization of Japanese words and kanji into explaining the events and concepts. Thank you!
As a Japanese, this series of videos are so helpful to relearn the history! I couldn’t find any better channel talking about history in such a detail! Thank you very much! 🖤
My Japanese isn’t good enough to read these history books (I guess I could try but it would take way too long) so the fact that this series is actually using Japanese textbooks that Japanese students use makes this a lot more helpful than videos in English that take from books meant for more western readers.
That was my hope! There are plenty of great English books out there too, but, if you can get past the language barrier, the Japanese books are actually often easier to follow because they're geared at more casual learners rather than hardcore history people.
Just found your channel today- So incredibly professional and well thought-out. Defo spreading your content around, Japanese history is such a hard egg to crack as a Westerner, and you've really provided such a great look into it!
Thank you so much! That's pretty much the exact same thing that I thought when I started getting into Japanese history, and my hope for the channel is to give people a base of knowledge that makes it easier to delve deeper on their own -- so I really appreciate those words!
Japanese major here. Studied the Heian period & Old Japanese in university. Translated a few select chapters of the Pillow Book for my thesis. But all this pre-Nara stuff baffled me. THANK YOU for your research & generous sharing of your scholarship! 勉強になりました！感謝しております！お世話になっております！ I hope you enjoyed Shōgun on Disney + immensely LOL.
This channel is amazing. Your attention to detail in the governance structures was extremely helpful (to this non-Japanese student) in effectively breaking down a hierarchy which uses extremely similar terms.
Thank you for this amazing video, I love the fact that you are using strictly Japanese material as the source of all your information. it makes it feel extra authentic! Though in the case of these Kofuns, I think it also comes with the disadvantage of not bringing up emperor Nintoku and the differences between kofuns built for Korean people and Japanese people (since I doubt japanese material would mention those). That is to say, kofuns built for the Japanese were much less decorated than those built for Koreans, which may or may not be the case for Japan prohibiting the opening of emperor Nintoku's kofun, as they might find out something they wouldn't want to.
3:43 You might also want to note that the main reason why contemporary textbooks do not refer to it as 大和朝廷 and instead use ヤマト政権 is because the former is a politically loaded term associated with pre-WWII attempts to draw a direct connection between the imperial lineage and the ancient court in order to support pre-war conceptions of Japanese supremacy and the divine descent of the imperial lineage, etc. The latter is a much more neutral term free of these connotations and has come into broad use in the post-war period.
Great creative idea. Play annoying repetitive at the same volume that you speak so we have a difficult time heading what you're saying in a history lecture. Just brilliant...
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory yeah man, I'm doing my bachelor's in japanese language and history here in Mexico, it hard to come across the information you provide in our classes (for multiple reasons) thanks again mate.
I feel this needs to be said. Across the series, your choice of background music is dope! I didn't think fast electronic beats could work so well with a history video. Its somehow enough to keep your brain entertained without pulling your attention away from the narration. Good on you for not using cilche epic orchestral trailer music, or even lofi! I love lofi, but it is starting to get predictable.
こんにちはアダムさん This is a really great video I have watched other videos about the 古墳時代 but I like how you explain everything with a lot of detail and and how you explained the 氏 before this video I had heard of 氏 but it wasn’t really explained and your music and is awesome.
As regards to the word tenno and ohkimi there was also a name called sumeramikoto - could mean "uniting lord" although I don't know when it came to use, if you see fictions themed on ancient imperial court, the usage is fairly common
I don’t believe so. It seems like they were just laborer families who were forced to be under the jurisdiction of whomever the local ujibito overlords were. From what I’ve read, kakibe were only allowed to marry other kakibe, so it seems like they were trying to make sure that the different social classes’ bloodlines didn’t mix.
for the love of god tell me you eventually lower the music's volume. great videos that are so hard to pay attention to due to the music. its just irritating
With the image at 2:57 I can't help but be reminfed of a keyhole. With that being said I am hoping there isn't a portal to the after life found there because that would cause some minor issues to the fishing seasons.
They are often referred to as "keyhole tombs" in English, so you are not alone in thinking that! Regarding the latter comment, I'm honestly not too well-versed in how paranormal activity affects marine wildlife so I'll just take your word for it
You know the kanji characters for Kakibe do also mean a class of people who had similar stations in China during the 4th through 6th centuries. I feel these kanji may have been introduced to Japan at this time, since later in Chinese history this term somewhat changed in meaning.
The story comes from the Nihon Shoki, so it’s in that gray area between fact and legend. Even if the statue really did exist, the Nihon Shoki describes it as being discarded into a river by the followers of the Mononobe, so it was likely lost then. There IS, however, a temple in Japan called Zenkōji (善光寺) which claims to have the statue, but they keep it stored in a miniature shrine which has remained unopened since (allegedly) 654 CE… So no one living has ever laid eyes on it. Is there really even a statue in there? Is it THE statue? We will probably never know, but it’s fun to wonder about 🤔
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Wow nice info man! I really like the japanese mythology and all the sacred sites they have. Like the 3 sacred national treasures, cant be seen by anyone and their location is not very sure, right?
@@estebantedesco1348 Yes! Although only two of the original treasures still exist today. The original sword was lost during the naval Battle of Dan-no-ura at the end of the 12th century. It’s probably still hanging around somewhere at the bottom of the sea, which is cool to think about.
12:1120:35 Bu - makes me think of majin buu & lubu on the video games & goku goguryeo & Pokemon Richu & kingdom hearts keyholes & keyblades. The five kings Wanna go "home" hommie , wanna be. Then niina messiah & "Yah" mato.
Nihon Shoki itself was a fabrication, but the contents were borrowed exactly. There are no relics of ancient Japan. History books can be distorted for political purposes, but artifacts cannot. So, we estimate ancient history based on records and artifacts. Around AD 400, there was no centralized or federated state in Japan to rule over other countries. And at that time, Gaya had a developed iron culture and its cavalry was very powerful (reference th-cam.com/video/TalIMN1BbIA/w-d-xo.html), and Gaya's iron was even exported to China. On the other hand, since Japan's development was slow and it was during the Bronze Age, it is more likely that Gaya ruled Japan rather than Japan being ruled by Gaya. In no ancient country in the world has there ever been a case where a Bronze Age country conquered an Iron Age country. At 1872, part of the Daisenryo Kofun was lost, but when the BAEKJE relics came out, the Japanese government hastily covered it up..
And Japanese King Akihito confessed that he had Baekje and Gaya blood flowing through him (th-cam.com/video/9N4O3H9OCOQ/w-d-xo.html). Japan colonized Korea during its imperialist period and distorted a lot of ancient history to seek legitimacy, but this has not yet been corrected. That's why these absurd videos are still being produced.
You should be awarded by the ministries of education and foreign affairs of Japan. Besides, your videos are good for us, native Japanese, to learn about Japan in English. Very entertaining. Thank you!
Haha it would be a dream come true to be noticed by the Ministry. I'm glad you found the video useful!
This channel is a GEM. I can't believe how underrated it is.
I am studying Japanese History in Japanese and this has helped me greatly. :)
Appreciate all the exquisite work and the utilization of Japanese words and kanji into explaining the events and concepts. Thank you!
Thank you so much! Glad to meet another kindred spirit 😊これからも頑張ります！
It’s actually amazing how the Japanese can integrate something in their culture with such rapid speed
It's like in their DNA, to absorb foreign cultures, keep the best parts, make it pretty & their own LOL.
As a Japanese, this series of videos are so helpful to relearn the history! I couldn’t find any better channel talking about history in such a detail! Thank you very much! 🖤
I'm happy to hear that you're finding the videos useful!
My Japanese isn’t good enough to read these history books (I guess I could try but it would take way too long) so the fact that this series is actually using Japanese textbooks that Japanese students use makes this a lot more helpful than videos in English that take from books meant for more western readers.
That was my hope! There are plenty of great English books out there too, but, if you can get past the language barrier, the Japanese books are actually often easier to follow because they're geared at more casual learners rather than hardcore history people.
Loving these videos, but the BGM is too distracting. Don't need that nonstop music.
Im learning a lot! Thank you.
Just found your channel today- So incredibly professional and well thought-out. Defo spreading your content around, Japanese history is such a hard egg to crack as a Westerner, and you've really provided such a great look into it!
Thank you so much! That's pretty much the exact same thing that I thought when I started getting into Japanese history, and my hope for the channel is to give people a base of knowledge that makes it easier to delve deeper on their own -- so I really appreciate those words!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory your channel is amazing keep up the good work
Japanese major here. Studied the Heian period & Old Japanese in university. Translated a few select chapters of the Pillow Book for my thesis. But all this pre-Nara stuff baffled me. THANK YOU for your research & generous sharing of your scholarship! 勉強になりました！感謝しております！お世話になっております！
I hope you enjoyed Shōgun on Disney + immensely LOL.
This is exactly the type of content i’ve been looking for i’ve been wanting to find out stuff abt japan’s history for a while
Then you have to come to the right place! Thanks for watching 😁
This is the episode where it starts to become apparant that this is based on school textbooks.
This channel is amazing. Your attention to detail in the governance structures was extremely helpful (to this non-Japanese student) in effectively breaking down a hierarchy which uses extremely similar terms.
I'm very glad you found it useful!
Thank you for this amazing video, I love the fact that you are using strictly Japanese material as the source of all your information. it makes it feel extra authentic! Though in the case of these Kofuns, I think it also comes with the disadvantage of not bringing up emperor Nintoku and the differences between kofuns built for Korean people and Japanese people (since I doubt japanese material would mention those). That is to say, kofuns built for the Japanese were much less decorated than those built for Koreans, which may or may not be the case for Japan prohibiting the opening of emperor Nintoku's kofun, as they might find out something they wouldn't want to.
3:43 You might also want to note that the main reason why contemporary textbooks do not refer to it as 大和朝廷 and instead use ヤマト政権 is because the former is a politically loaded term associated with pre-WWII attempts to draw a direct connection between the imperial lineage and the ancient court in order to support pre-war conceptions of Japanese supremacy and the divine descent of the imperial lineage, etc. The latter is a much more neutral term free of these connotations and has come into broad use in the post-war period.
My favorite channel alongside Limfamy. I am fascinated by Japanese history. Thank you!!
Great creative idea.
Play annoying repetitive at the same volume that you speak so we have a difficult time heading what you're saying in a history lecture.
Just brilliant...
This is beyond amazing! Thank you for you effort in making these videos!
Thank you! Comments like these keep me motivated!
This is the best Japanese history channel on youtube!!
Quick question were the Fujiwara a Omi Uji?
Thanks for taking your time and buying resources for these videos man, these are really handy for recapping my uni classes.
My pleasure! And glad to hear it, it's cool to know that a lot of the material overlaps.
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory yeah man, I'm doing my bachelor's in japanese language and history here in Mexico, it hard to come across the information you provide in our classes (for multiple reasons) thanks again mate.
@@brainsgainz9118 That's awesome, I often wish I could go back in time and major in something similar (haha). Anyway, glad to be of service!
Sir i like the was you speak snd talk it very calm and make the story more interesting and it makes one want more and more
I'm always surprised by how legitimately insane the music for these videos are
Just wanted to add that the choice in background music is fantastic.
Brilliant stuff man! Keep it coming!
I love these videos. Much appreciated
Thank you for the video ❤️
It's very informative.
really good video. Thank you!
Me: Gets the feels every time the dope intro music gets played.
excellent bro! really nice work. thank you :)
These videos are fun to watch and informational. I'm watching them to review what I studied in College. Thanks!
I’m glad you’re finding them useful!
Very good series!!
Such a cool series
This world would have been dull without Japan.
This is sooo interesting. Thank you for your hard work !!!
Thanks for watching! Glad you’re enjoying it!
Thanks for the video, I really appreciate it.
Glad you liked it!
I feel this needs to be said. Across the series, your choice of background music is dope! I didn't think fast electronic beats could work so well with a history video. Its somehow enough to keep your brain entertained without pulling your attention away from the narration. Good on you for not using cilche epic orchestral trailer music, or even lofi! I love lofi, but it is starting to get predictable.
こんにちはアダムさん This is a really great video I have watched other videos about the 古墳時代 but I like how you explain everything with a lot of detail and and how you explained the 氏 before this video I had heard of 氏 but it wasn’t really explained and your music and is awesome.
I hope the explanation was ok! The 氏 is a little confusing… Glad you liked the music 😁 いつもありがとう！
As regards to the word tenno and ohkimi
there was also a name called sumeramikoto - could mean "uniting lord"
although I don't know when it came to use, if you see fictions themed on ancient imperial court, the usage is fairly common
did kakibe and ujibito have blood relation?
I don’t believe so. It seems like they were just laborer families who were forced to be under the jurisdiction of whomever the local ujibito overlords were. From what I’ve read, kakibe were only allowed to marry other kakibe, so it seems like they were trying to make sure that the different social classes’ bloodlines didn’t mix.
for the love of god tell me you eventually lower the music's volume. great videos that are so hard to pay attention to due to the music. its just irritating
Can you please tell the name of the intro song...
The name of the intro song is Lone Wolf and Cub, which is the theme song of the Japanese Samurai drama 子連れ狼 Kozure-Ohkami.
With the image at 2:57 I can't help but be reminfed of a keyhole. With that being said I am hoping there isn't a portal to the after life found there because that would cause some minor issues to the fishing seasons.
They are often referred to as "keyhole tombs" in English, so you are not alone in thinking that! Regarding the latter comment, I'm honestly not too well-versed in how paranormal activity affects marine wildlife so I'll just take your word for it
You know the kanji characters for Kakibe do also mean a class of people who had similar stations in China during the 4th through 6th centuries. I feel these kanji may have been introduced to Japan at this time, since later in Chinese history this term somewhat changed in meaning.
there must have been so much wealth
Definitely among the leadership class, at least. I imagine there wasn’t a lot of trickle-down, though.
Does this buddha statue still exist? or is just legend?
The story comes from the Nihon Shoki, so it’s in that gray area between fact and legend. Even if the statue really did exist, the Nihon Shoki describes it as being discarded into a river by the followers of the Mononobe, so it was likely lost then. There IS, however, a temple in Japan called Zenkōji (善光寺) which claims to have the statue, but they keep it stored in a miniature shrine which has remained unopened since (allegedly) 654 CE… So no one living has ever laid eyes on it. Is there really even a statue in there? Is it THE statue? We will probably never know, but it’s fun to wonder about 🤔
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Wow nice info man! I really like the japanese mythology and all the sacred sites they have. Like the 3 sacred national treasures, cant be seen by anyone and their location is not very sure, right?
@@estebantedesco1348 Yes! Although only two of the original treasures still exist today. The original sword was lost during the naval Battle of Dan-no-ura at the end of the 12th century. It’s probably still hanging around somewhere at the bottom of the sea, which is cool to think about.
12:11 20:35 Bu - makes me think of majin buu & lubu on the video games & goku goguryeo & Pokemon Richu & kingdom hearts keyholes & keyblades. The five kings Wanna go "home" hommie , wanna be. Then niina messiah & "Yah" mato.
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Nihon Shoki itself was a fabrication, but the contents were borrowed exactly. There are no relics of ancient Japan. History books can be distorted for political purposes, but artifacts cannot. So, we estimate ancient history based on records and artifacts. Around AD 400, there was no centralized or federated state in Japan to rule over other countries. And at that time, Gaya had a developed iron culture and its cavalry was very powerful (reference th-cam.com/video/TalIMN1BbIA/w-d-xo.html), and Gaya's iron was even exported to China. On the other hand, since Japan's development was slow and it was during the Bronze Age, it is more likely that Gaya ruled Japan rather than Japan being ruled by Gaya. In no ancient country in the world has there ever been a case where a Bronze Age country conquered an Iron Age country.
At 1872, part of the Daisenryo Kofun was lost, but when the BAEKJE relics came out, the Japanese government hastily covered it up..
And Japanese King Akihito confessed that he had Baekje and Gaya blood flowing through him (th-cam.com/video/9N4O3H9OCOQ/w-d-xo.html). Japan colonized Korea during its imperialist period and distorted a lot of ancient history to seek legitimacy, but this has not yet been corrected. That's why these absurd videos are still being produced.
Please study the papers of scholars (historians, not politicians). Videos produced without in-depth study are prone to widespread distorted content.
The music is unnecessary though :)
Nah the music hits
The kinky region. Heheheh
A shame you ruined this video by drowning the commentary with music.
Too bad the analysis is hurt by the unnecessary background music. Ugh
Too much fast
Thank you 👍🙏🇨🇷💐