What Life Was Like as a Samurai In Feudal Japan
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ม.ค. 2020
- Samurai dominated the country of Japan from the 12th to the 19th century. The fierce, disciplined warriors lived according to the bushido code, an unwritten set of rules and norms based in loyalty, sacrifice, bravery, and honor, remembered popularly as samurai code. Along with the code came samurai traditions and customs that defined their physical appearance, sexual relationships, how they killed and how they died. Just like pirates cherished their earrings and Vikings dyed their hair, samurai demonstrated their dedication to the code and to their lifestyle in some unique ways.
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"THE SAMURAI WARRIOR OF FUEDEL JAPAN-" [Chinese music plays]
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Exactly! 😩🤦♂️
How disgusting uncultured
White Witch calm down sweetie
@@puppycat0994 who hurt u fam
“Lord Sakai,control yourself.We are not criminals like this man here.”
SAMURAI.. DO YOU SURRENDER!!
COWARDS DERSERVE NO MERCY.....NO MERCY!!!!
@@hunterturner6017 Brother, you are a warrior i can see that, you've trained your whole life for this, and you have won battles that lesser men have called un winnable yes? But while you were sharpening your sword do you know how i prepared for today? I learned, I know your language your traditions your beliefs, which villages to tame and which to burn. So I ask you one last time samurai..do you surrender?
M16music such a badass opening
@@BarnyWaterg8 ik dude
This is getting recommended after the release of ghost of tsushima
It came out on my birthday
N1mBuS Same, July 17. Happy Birthday bro, hope u r enjoying Ghost of Tsushima
Happy birthday guys
Yeah I thought this was a recent video made because of Ghost of Tsushima being popular atm, but it turns out this video is actually just being recommended because Ghost of Tsushima is popular rn.
Happy Birthday also guys!
"A true samurai needs no clothes"
- Jin Sakai after too much sake
Jin the weirdo
So you're telling me
Hiphop Music doesn't play in the background when Samurais fight?!
_My life has been a lie_
Duchi 🙄😂😂😂😂
-record scratch-
No no, it did, they just left that part out because this video was about samurai, not about the guys who followed them around and then made battle music while they fought
sa-sa-samurai champloo *record scratch
I’ve been meaning to rewatch that show lol, thanks for the random reminder!! 😂
One notable samurai fought in many different timelines. His name is: Jack
Jack was the best Samuari in History.
But then Aku banished him to the future
@@PersonManManManMan Where his evil is law
@@ibu207 but he sought to return to the past and undo the future that is Aku.
He needed to get back to the past
Ghost of Tsushima makes me want to learn more about Japanese history and culture
Dude anime will make u wanna be in it😂😂
Same! I've been looking into Japanese history because of it. East Asian history, in general, is really fascinating.
Same
Especially the code of samurai which the game is trying to portrait
Ur not alone
Who else is pumped for Ghost of Tsushima?
Who isn’t?
This Guy
Downloading it as we speak
I've been waiting for it for ever! It's just the price 80 bucks on a game I really just dont know if I'll regret it
Game is already out now and holy shit it’s already turned into one of my favorites. Sekiro was another favorite of mine
- What does "katana" mean?
- It means "Japanese sword"
Samurai Cop - 1991
Or 1989. Whenever it was made.
ok. i was doing iran and persian gulf then, never heard of. now i gotta find it and watch. thanks for the fish.
@@em1osmurf oh Brother, you are up for a treat.
Ya like how the Roman word gladius sounds awesome but it just means sword
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 An unexpected comment hahaha!! God!! I'll never forget that!!!
a Samurai must act honorably at all time
Samurai: *slices a passing by peasant in half just to test his sword**
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"Life in feudal Japan..." *Plays distinctly Chinese Erhu music*😂
Ehhhh same shit different toilet
@@nickz5849 it's like saying niggas are the same or white people has the same culture 💀, Japanese and Chinese music are literally different things and has nothing to do with each other, classic ignorance on Asian culture,i guess you're from the west 😂
@@nickz5849 I’m guessing you are from africa. Japan and china are almost completely different, different castles, different swords, different language, stfu.
@@rememberthatyoumustdie What do you mean exactly about "I'm guessing you are from Africa " dixit. It seems your comment is racist and stupid.
@@parkyamato9450 Why do you talk about "niggas" and "I suppose you are from the west" ?. Racist.
*watched some Ghost Of Tsushima gameplay
TH-cam: Oh, so you like Samurai, Japanese history and stuff
lmao
I mean getting recommended Star Wars videos samurai and ninja videos aren’t bad, that’s my recommendations lol
I'd like to learn about gangsters in the prohibition era
Tom Kennedy
Sure
Yakuza
So then go read about it, you act like Weird history has to upload something in order for you to learn it.
Now I want to learn the life of a Yakuza
It is better to be a warrior in the garden than a gardener in war.
Deep
Imma write that one down
Weird History: "Do you think you would have made it as a samurai warrior in feudal Japan?"
Me: "Considering I don't speak a lick of Japanese, probably not."
Konichiwa? If you can understand that simple word you’re ok. Just can’t be a samurai cause samurais needed to talk. Coming from a Japanese you could prolly make it just saying that simple word.
Is a samurai warrior allowed to carry an m60?
@@digital107-_- Modern samurai would.
@@rememberthatyoumustdie then yes
who’s here after Ghost of Tsushima came out?
Me
Same here
Me
your mother
Me
The Samurai was just another warrior class of nobility, much like other feudal societies. Their behavior, codes of conduct, and other such trappings were extremely similar to those in other cultures.
Many myths have been exaggerated regarding them, as with the others, too. Loyalty to their lord and oaths being a good example. Those began being exaggerated in the late 19th century, some time after the Meiji Restoration, as nationalist propaganda. If you read actual historical events during older times of conflict, Sengoku Jidai being a prime example, you'll see there were many instances of betrayal and self-serving decisions which counter such narratives.
Another related subject, that of suicide (hara kiri), is also regularly perceived as unique to the Samurai. While they ritualized it, the act was still often what they did to avoid possibly worse consequences of their failure, loss of status, capture, etc. Such acts have been done around the world throughout history, even into more modern eras.
This isn't intended to denigrate Samurai, or imply that they weren't impressive. Just that their behavior wasn't as different as other feudal warlords in history, or warrior leaders in general, as the modern mythology would have you believe.
You’re right, but shut up, you’re ruining samurai for me
Thanks for putting the video into text
@@eve3019 Heh!
What books do you suggest to read?
ok boomer, youre smart, we get it, thats enough now
Please do a video on courtesans during Roman times.
Or even the Hetiarae?
Ezio might have a thing or two to say
Or just courtesans in general
Imagine the smell, the infections, the...yeast. 🤮
@@GoogleRuinsAnythingItTouches exactly. Everythings...saturated with... wetness
Samurai, Spartan, Vikings were some bad ass warriors.
To my understanding, you have to be a suicidal maniac to be labeled a bad ass in their eras
More likely they saw death in battle as a rite of passage to get in higher planes of existence
Mamluks: Hold my kebab…
Romans , Indians
I guess yes. But then again I can also say the mongols,Brits, and the Romans were bad ass too.
„You look your opponent in the eyes , cowards with no honor strike from the back „
Hey Chief, the music you're playing in the background is Chinese, not Japanese.
Does it really matter?
The music isn't the point, the information is.
And the thumbnail has a picture of a soldier from a nomadic state, not Japan
Yeah. The Erhu and woodblocks are cool but, the koto and taiko drums are the best
vonwolfe as to maintain cultural and historical accuracy, yes.
This dude's voice is like asmr it's amazing
ikr
The voice actor it seems to be the newscaster from onion news
shame his pronounciation is garbo
He sounds like Stephen Colbert.
@@q2yogurt Daym yo.
“You must control your emotions, Sakai.”
8:28 , the samurai he is talking about is the highly romaticised samurai Minamoto no Yoshitsune, not Yoshitsu...
He was the brother of Minamoto No Yoritomo who became the shogun after defeating the Taira in the Genpei War and his reign is known as the Kamakura era, as his capital was situated in Kamakura.
He was a gang member
0:40 samurai is derived from saburau (候ふ), not subaru.
subaru means "gather at one point (統ばる)" or the open star cluster of the Pleiades (昴).
For people who did not study Japanese, mispronouncing certain words is normal I think. I am studying Japanese in my free time, but even I am aware, that I do not pronounce everything correctly.
@@cat_loaf943 yeah i get your point, but sometimes a mere mispronunciation makes big misconceptions. Also, the english sub says "subaru" so i fixed it just to be sure. Sorry for my poor english btw.
That Narrator must be a fans of boxer-engined car or Collin McRae
@@wasigupitobudiarto7767 lol xD
@@mokuseinoosa Your English is good - I thought you were a native speaker, and I'm a linguist.
Next video, can you cover how I'm a noble Samurai despite living in my mother basement at 40?
hehehehehe
LFMAO
@Butt Dublin Pie
bro its funny because its racist, get it?
I too want to see a video about the underground western samurai!
@@jamiesnack Weeaboos are not a race nor an ethnical group.
Rurouni Kenshin fans where you at?
I’m here
Mee
Oro?
Yo.
Here
Ghost of Tsushima has me doing history lessons lol.
sameeeee bruh , love the game though, makes me fascinated with that era
Showing Korean food was classic. LMAO.
Most of what they knew at the time was from Baekje (Korean peninsula). Pretty fitting; although neither the Korean peninsula nor Japanese islands ate pepper/spices, yet.
@@andrewstupak6668 baekche is just ONE of the 3 kingdoms on the korean peninsula and it didn't exist by the time of the kamakura period. so yeah it's not a great choice of comparison or more likely just poorly researched.
That’s just one of the inaccurate things, he played chinese music.
@@rememberthatyoumustdie His pronunciation of 80% of the Japanese words was also off.
Also, your nickname makes me want to vomit.
@@sonicsabbath dang didn’t know someone’s nickname dictates the body functions, you must’ve payed attention in school!
I genuinely thought I was the only one who's watching this video after playing the new game. Ghost Of Tsushima. Scrolled through the comments and found out im just 1 of many! Quick tip.... Save all your resources until you find that Armour suit you want to max out immediately.. The Ghost suit is my favourite as it scares so many Mongols 😂. Great video Weird History. "Never thought I'd say that sentence" 😂✌ peace and love.
Im with ya
Bra I stg😭
Kensei and gosaku amor so far, the quest for kensei was fun
@@lokotroko1 Gosaku... My favourite Armour set isn't far from that quest! 💯
Samurai weren't always born into their class, during the Sengoku period it was quite common for peasants to become samurai through military service. Toyotomi Hideyoshi is the most famous example.
I didn’t realize how much Samurai Jack had to go through
You should do what was it like to be a U.S. soldier in the Vietnam war
Damn Lights heck we still have Nam Vets around to tell that sorry tale. As a small child I Watched my uncle and his buddy's get spit on by dirty liberal hippies at the airport returning from Nam!!! My Aunt, Grandmother and father beat the SHIT out of them!
Ahhhhh yes, what a time to be alive. Not really.
It was shit
Orphan I smell shit
Obviously wasn't the life of a fortunate oooonneeeee *YEAAAH*
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But where does Samuel L. Jackson or Tom Cruise fit in all of these?
Not born.
@@panimalos5720
if you look up you may catch a glimpse of the joke going over your head
@@panimalos5720 r/woooosh
sarin Massive wooosh
@@panimalos5720 Idk man. im pretty sure both of them fought for the samurai and you can't prove me otherwise.
Feudal Japan is one of the most enigmatic and fascinating periods of time and I can't even imagine how awesome it would be to be able to look back and see what went on and witness all the treachery, betrayal, honor and dishonor that took place, such a unique culture full of ritual and rules so strict that when broken those that committed the transgression had to kill themselves by disembowelment called seppuku done with a knife that they always kept with them and a ceremonial white cloth wrapped around the handle leaving only the razor sharp tip and blade exposed to cut their abdomen wide open with and bow in death
One common misconception is that Samurai always used Katana. No, that's wrong. Samurai barely used Katanas and mostly use spears and bows when on horse and land. Katana was more likely a secondary weapon when the Naginata broke.
In fact, katana was more of a status symbol when worn alongside the wakizashi (known together as the daisho "long-short"). It was also more of a dueling weapon than one of war. The same misconception stands for ancient Greek hoplites and earlier Mycenaean Greeks, who also used the short sword as a secondary weapon, favouring the spear first.
@@arcotroll8530 it wasn’t more of a fucking status symbol 😂
samurais are just basically japan's medieval knights
In fact they actually used a firearm similar to a modern gun more than they used katanas. Also, as a person of Chinese decent, I don’t have too much of an issue when someone mistakes Chinese for Japanese music and vise versa since I can see how the mixup can happen. But even so, it’s still best to actually do research of how to distinguish one from the other if you’re doing videos based on specific cultural things like Japanese, Swedish, Egyptian etc. and not just something like East Asian culture, North African culture etc.
Swordplay became popular in the 18th century.
0:50 "Came into being around the 8th century For comparison this was roughly the same time knights were going on crusades over in Europe. Well no, the crusades didn't start until the end of the eleventh century. The first crusade started in 1096.
Thank you
Glad someone posted this.
The name "samurai" was also not used (or at least not common) until way after the Heian period, so he's wrong on both accounts.
Ugh, did this guy not bother to fact - check or give proper context to anything here? I had to skip all the way to the end because my ears were figuratively, if not literally, starting to bleed from the inaccuracies.
Really says a lot off the start thank you I stopped watching
Now thinking about it, the Jedi training literally sounds like it was inspired by samurai training when training kids from infancy
ooooooooh yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhhh you got a point.
I was thinking they sounded kinda like Mandalorians training from childhood... spiritual... their helmets... just sayin
Star Wars is a western/samurai style film set in space with a little be of wizardary here and there. Geroge Lucas is a fan of Samurai and Akira Kurosawa films. The first Star Wars is sort of a "homeage" to Akira Kurosawa film "The Hidden Fortress". Add the . before the com: screenrant com/star-wars-franchise-influenced-inspired-by-western-samurai-movies-george-lucas/
Thats because they got the inspiration of their training, sword technique and discipline from Samurais, especially for the first movies.
"There were consequences to samurai who acted without honor"
Me: GoT flashback intensifies
Lol Westworld intensifies!
This sounds like a book report put together by an intelligent but time-pressed high school student.
With the usual errors included...
Weird History: "what life was like as a samurai"
Weeaboos: *heh... Your knowledge is... lacking...*
@president camacho There is no reason to hate the Japanese. Are you black or yellow?
@president camacho 0h man they already did so many freaking times.
Love the video always been interested in history like this. Additionally I love the voice actor used in the voice over. I think that the history of various martial arts would be a great wierd history episode
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One omission in this video is around 5:30 when they discuss samurai weaponry. They mention that medieval samurai traveled on horseback and were fond of the bow and arrow, which is true, but they also made extensive use of a sword called the tachi, which is sort of a predecessor to the katana. The weapons are very similar, but unlike a katana, the tachi has a more pronounced curvature that runs all the way down the tang, resulting in a curved tsuka (handle). These swords were worn horizontally on the belt with the edge down, so that it could be drawn easily while on horseback. They were used somewhat like cavalry sabers in mounted combat. As fghting from horseback fell from favor in the 15th and 16th centuries, so too did the tachi, which was supplanted by the more practical and easy-to-wield katana that we are familiar with today.
Samurai are slackers
@@johnjones9065 Fair, they spent much of the Tokugawa period tending gardens and writing poems.
Who’s here while taking a break from playing Ghost of Tsushima
Haven't played it but I've been obsessed with Samurai since I was like 10
Other than incorrectly pronouncing Japanese names, you forgot to mention why Japan walks and drive on the left side of paths (basically if a peasant touches the katana of the Samurai while walking by touching the sheath, the Samurai is permitted to cut the person down, and since the sheath of the katana is on the Samurai's left side, to avoid this, people started walking on the left of traffic so it would be impossible to touch an oncoming Samurai's katana)
Hairo Aguilera You mean the samurai’s right side?
@@zoarmhirr2964 It's definitely the left side
Samurai walks on the left side, also peasant walks on the left side but in the opposite direction. Samurai holds the sword on his left side. It makes sense.
Great content ! How about a video on the history of Gypsies ? Never understood them
Who else is interested in samurais after ghost of Tsushima?
your mother
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St0w1k not sure what that means but I guess your mother will tell me😭
Me
Me it was from Tenchu.
My biological family's line is Samurai and Geshia, and I'm starting to find out more of my culture. I was adopted from Japan at 6 months old and I have a twin brother, I'm the oldest and found out that even if the oldest is a female they have very important roles in family businesses. And if the oldest can't do the task the youngest child can, which basically my twin brother have to do it or be shamed in the line. Very tough families in a Samurai and Geshia line, so I am learning both sides. My biological father said "Gor a female who is born first, must learn the elegant ways of a woman but also have to manly. In other words my daughter you have to be elegant, tough, brave, and cunning to get thru our way of life. We dont do very much killing now, but you must learn it so when it does come time to take the family business you know the honorable way to make it last." My father is a 8th-9th generation Samurai/Geshia line in the family, so there is a lot of history of my family in Japan. My mother is mixed, so when I heard before hand Samurai men could only marry Japanese females of higher rank or the same. I'm scratching my head of how my mom got the honor of his family without no problems.... well going to find out why and such soon, they are planning on a family gathering shortly still fighting on where to have it. At America where I'm adopted to or at my home town in Osaka, Japan.
no you're not shut up
Very cool! Did you ever have the gathering?
Female samurai! There was a era when this happen,they even fought in wars. Wish you would make a video on Japanese or Chinese woman, other then Geishas. Love your videos!
Agreed
Don't be feminist! Tomoe became a samurai just because her father had no son. In later samurai times it was inadmissible for a woman to be a samurai. And after the Taira clan was defeated and her husband killed, Tomoe didn't take her life so she lost her samurai title and honor. So Tomoe cannot be considered a samurai.
@-246800753124688413679633 - I'm not saying that every samurai must die in battle or kill himself. But Tomoe gave up her samurai title and lived to life as a villager. Ronins either finds a new master or avenges his old master to regain honor not like Tomoe.
In history, women have been fighting. But they didn't have the samurai title.
@@radoslavkosil7786 Source? Like very little of Tomoe-gozen's life is unknown aside from her following Kiso Yoshinaka on his campaign. She may even be entirely fictional since she only appears in the Heike Monogatari and not historical texts like the Azuma Kagami.
The only theory I've really heard for her origin (assuming she existed) was Takei Yousetsu's suggestion that she was a daughter of Yoshinaka's foster father Nakahara no Kaneto'o. In that case her father almost certainly had a son, Yoshinaka's sworn brother Imai Kanehira.
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Anyone who hasn’t, but is able to NEEDS to read Vagabond, EVEN if you don’t like samurai you still need to read it!!!
Fantastic manga, and it’s not even Inoue’s best series in my opinion, the man is a genius
Nah I don't need to nor want to
Thanks for the recommendation!
Love this channel just subscribed and love the content love the Aztec warrior video and this one. Keepem coming
Sekiro: damn this armor is heavy
Any group that lets Tom Cruise join can't be all that great.
Samurai were early Scientologists
howyoudurrinhunneh they also had Keanu reeves so can’t be that bad 🤷♂️
And the ninja turtles
Xenu is angry with you for this
@@RyanLittrell111 Xenu needs to take some Xanax
"I refuse to watch this video."
- Zatoichi
One must be blind to miss the joke here.
"I see what you did there"
~Not Zatoichi
Darkest is my ally
"I shall embrace this darkness deep inside my sense of humor."
- Me, trying to sound like important person -
spent 4 years in Japan. Many of the locals around the ages of 55+ have it in their minds that Samurai's didnt really exist because of how unreal the training was. Apparently, Samurai life was in such secrecy that no one spoke of it and therefore, today some believe it never happened.
However, during WW2 time frame, when Guam was a mere chess piece in the Pacific, its been documented that the Japanese that landed on Guam also had stowed Kitanas on them should they need to resort to a more traditional fighting style. After WW2 and the new "constitution" written for Japan by the US, Japan dropped a lot of its traditions and heritage and adopted a more modern way of life.
Very few Japanese join the military because its simply not needed if the US is providing security 24/7. However, if the Japanese do join their own military, they tend to promote rather quickly and have some of the youngest high ranking officers I've ever seen. Pilots, too. Very smart people, polite, and kind. Funny! They have a great sense of humor and their food is amazing.
I will always miss Japan and I cannot wait to visit again some day!!!!
“Kitanatas”
Lmao
It's crazy how two atomic bombs can change so much in a country
Spent 2 years in Japan, in the U.S Navy, and everything yiu said is very correct.
Training doesn't seem out of reach - prob mirrors a higher end soldier. I think we also have to be careful when we add mystic properties to their training methods as we did with other fighting arts from Asia (Karate so on etc).
@@OilyOaf 🤓
I die a little inside every time he pronounces shogun
I don’t see the issue with it
Just about every Japanese word in here, he butchers. Taira, Yoshitsune, daimyo, the list goes on.
You guys seriously interesting and unique facts about the topics you cover. I was seriously impressed by your toilet episode haha! Can you guys do a video on what life was like for a ancient Plumber or a Plumber in the 1800-1950's? They used lead pipes which they could mold like play-doh along with asbestos pipe that carried drinking water. I think majority of people would find it fascinating how dangerous that job was just to let you poop and drink. There are tons of wakey plumbing inventions of the victorian era of Britain along with gas fitting you could talk about. Anyways thank you for providing GOOD QUALITY videos all the time!
"If the Shogun wants my head, he can come get it himself." - the Ghost
You spelled "Shotgun" wrong.
It's ok. English is hard.
@@kgpspyguy Shogun: a Japanese fuedal lord.
Being an ignorant fuck is hard. It's ok.
@@kgpspyguy lol it’s ok bro I understood your troll haha
@@shawnthompson2303 are you stupid? a shogun isn't a "japanese feudal lord" that's what a daimyo is. A shogun is like a military leader, or a dictator who rules over many domains or all of Japan itself..
Well produced. I love the insight.
Ghost of tsushima bought me here....
Mirage of Blaze novel made me immersed in Japan feudal era.
I really enjoyed this content, as it was very insightful, yet I have to be a pain and point out, saying "samurai warrior" is incorrect, as samurai alone being the title/occupation they are referred to; the term Daimyo 大名 also should be pronounced closer to "die-myo". And also a common mistake as the intro music is actually Chinese :l
Correct!
and the thumbnail armor is chinese lol.
shogun: this sushi is oversalted
chef: *doing seppuku*
Awesome vid i recommended it to my friends!
Do a video about the Ghurkas of Nepal and Northern India. Not only did they succeed in preventing England from colonizing their region, but their Kukuri has become iconic. Their bravery and fighting skills are legendary.
Yeah ok buddy. Nobody cares
@@Justinicus24 😂😂😂 well aren’t you just ADORABLE!
Kinda disappointed you didn't seem to take any time to check your pronunciation :/
Or his facts. Dates, periods, and even comparing it to other cultures of the time were so far off it's like he thought, "wasn't this going on someplace? Sure, we'll include that."
Full of inaccuracies and outright false information. At the very least, he could have used even the common English mispronunciation of the words, but he went so far as to make up his own.
I want him to narrate my life when it's my time to go ! His voice just captures my interests!
Love the vids. Would love to hear how life was like for Greek Philosophers or some sort of historical scholars in some way.
"Samurai spent their days learning." Ad shows up on how becoming successful on tinder.
Me watching this video after Ghost of Tsushima is out.
Cool story
Yoriichi and Michikatsu Tsugikuni are some badass Samurai
Thx thx I’m doing a project and needed this
Jedi were inspired by jidaigeki which is a genre of film taking place in edo period. Jedi are essentially samurai.
What about a video about the oil boom in the US? I think that'd be a neat video idea. Or if there's already one. Please send me a link! I'm new to this channel ^^;
Love it! You should make one about the Nepalese Gurkha warriors!
My son's learning about feudal Japan in his virtual school and it's such a dry lesson. However, he likes to hear the stories within history and your videos have been super helpful in bringing interest to this subject.
Life As A Wife of A Samurai video would be interesting~
I can recommend a book by the title "Women of the Mito Domain".
@@adriennigarashineszabo946 oh yess, thank you so much! ❤️
Half of these Comments are about Ghost of Tsushima while I’m here watching it because it was recommended
OMG this helped me with my project I only had a week to find my own information, need at least 4 and this parts due Friday and its Thursday night its a lot for 5th rage thx so much.
Gotta love this video!!!
Ah yes, finally time to learn what I really want to learn. School never learns me this type of stuff, it only learns me pressure and stress.
Lord Sakai : Samurai
Lord Suck-guy : failed to release triangle button on time.
Lol XD
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I laughed a lot harder than i probably should have at this 🤣😝
I had to watch this for school and we did a samurai project and it was so fun and this video is amazing!!! 🤩 Thanks so much for it!!!!
Thanks for making my history assignment not seem so boring
Ghost of Tsushima: YUNA: jin no: lord sakai; he killed my father
Nice video but I just wanted to say a few things: The 8th Century saw the invasions of Vikings and the early formations of European kingdoms. It wasn't until the end of the 11th Century that there were Crusades in Europe and the Middle East. You brushed upon how many Samurai were financially challenged, but I felt like you could've talked about how the introduction of firearms via the Portugese and the opening up of the country in the 1800s eventually led to the hardships of Samurai coming to a front. This ultimately led to the abolition of the Samurai class.
So did Japan get conquered by the Portuguese?
@@brianticas2068 no
Found you guys last night. Just subbed. Can we get Viking Life?
Jester was a good one.
One huge error: Daimyō is pronounced "DIE-MYO" not "DAYM-YO." Sorry to nitpick, but it's a pretty important point.
Wrong. You actually pronounce the da-i as the western da and i sounds. There is no E sound in Daimyo. Japanese speaker here.
It’s pronounced daymyo
thanks for nitpicking something that was correct. you saved us all.
@@Pekskeh That's... literally what I said. You're agreeing with me.
@@anasdebbagh9373 It isn't though, 大名 is DIE-MYO. Feel free to look it up on any translation site, or even wikipedia.
Actually by the Edo period, the merchant class was doing very well, unlike most samurai. Since they were lower on the social scale, sumptuary laws were passed to limit their display of wealth. However, they found clever ways of bypassing these and managed to still look trendy.
The Erhu isnt a japanese musical insturment
love your guys' content
here for book research thanks for the video!
This video is so serious and takes on such a different tone from the medieval Europe ones lmao
Good rule of thumb when looking to try to pronounce Japanese words without knowing Japanese is: -European Vowels (A-'ah', I-'ee', u-'oo', e-'eh', o-'oh') and mostly American/British English consonants (J is always 'jay' and never 'hay' or 'yay' and G is always hard and never 'juh'). Vowels are almost always pronounced in conjunction with the syllable that preceeds them, so a word that ends in 'ne' sounds like 'neh' (For example, Yoshitsune would be 'Yoh-shee-tsu-neh'; that's a difficult example though, because in that case, the u in 'tsu' is made by pushing air out of the mouth and is close to silent, and the someone who doesn't speak Japanese, sounds close to "Yoh-shee-tsneh'.)
With that in mind, the pronunciations for your words would be:
-Daimyo: 'die-myoh'
-Sake (it's not saki, it's sake; within Japan, it's also often referred to as 'nihonshu'): 'Sah-keh'
-Yoshitsune: 'Yoh-sheet-tsu-neh'
-Minamoto: 'Mee-nah-mo-to'
Also it's not entire accurate to say they ruled the country from the 12th to 19th century; while after the 16th century the government was indeed a military dictatorship, any samurai outside of the government itself had little to no power; they were forced to spend their extremely limited budget making trips to the capital (a measure deliberately taken specifically to limit their power and chances of rebellion). Also, during this time, modern economics nearly destroyed the samurai financially; samurai were restricted from commerce (though some did partake), and their income consisted primarily of the fixed estate/rice granted to them by the shogun (the military dictator). Over time, as, with no battles to be fought (in the early 1600s, the shogun ended an extremely long conflict and took measures to make sure another conflict would not occur that could threaten his rule of the country), they had no way of making gains in land (and thus increase their livelihood), which also did not account for inflation. Merchants overtook them, despite being from a lower class, as they were allowed to trade freely, and by the time Japan engaged in large scale interaction with Europe beginning in the 1850s, the merchant class were easily the most well off group in Japan while the majority of samurai had been reduced to abject poverty.
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@@sierramonet8959 Lol no worries, though this was awhile ago!
Thank you! More Japanese history plz!
4am you say, ha ha ha it's 3:50 RIGHT NOW AND I HAVENT EVEN SLEPT YET
The samurai code of honour did not really come about until the edo period and really was perfected in the 19th century. The Samurai did believe in loyalty. They were very proud and liked to fight someone of their high cast. They were really just as treacherous as any other military class.
Wierd History: "Five year olds would use real sword."
Me: "I see this as a total win."
Jesus I’m japanese if only I was alive back then my parents could’ve brought me to become a samurai or a ninja
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