Watching a Japanese man learning US history while also bestowing upon us some Japanese history that follows the same time period? If only we had reached this level of youtube while I was in school.
@ChoppedBlade if he's a teacher, I'm sure he's had to get his bachelor's degree at least (a requirement to becoming a teacher, along with state certification). Even if he's new, that's still kinda basic stuff to know (well not basic- basic, but also not overly detailed and "into the nitty gritty" type of stuff, you know?)
The phrase “tea party” is used sarcastically when talking about the Boston Tea Party. An actual tea party is a small gathering of people socializing and drinking hot tea and eating cookies. It’s a very British thing. So this event where the Americans took the British tea and threw it overboard was sarcastically called a “tea party”.
The guy didn't yell 'The British are coming'. At the time the colonies still considered themselves as British. What he said was 'The Redcoats are coming' as redcoats were the name of the soldiers in the British royal army.
If I recall correctly he called them Regulars and not the redcoats or British. The reason this is is for the reason they didn't want to alert the local British sympathizers and local British units around the country side and such.
@@theemeraldshaft3552 There were multiple riders. Paul R was just the first/main one. It’s generally believed that he cried “The regulars are coming!” as a call to the militia (the minute men). Others are thought to have said “The red coats are coming!” Because it was easier to get out while riding horse back. Any loyalist would know what “regular“ meant as it was a common term both in England and in the Colonies at that time.
6:45 You might find this interesting. Those British soldiers were tried in court by the Americans afterwards, with a jury full of Americans who were extremely anti-British. Under almost any circumstances these men were doomed to imprisonment or even death. They were defended by an American lawyer. Some even accused this lawyer of treason against America for defending the British soldiers. Against all odds, that lawyer won the case defending the Soldiers. That lawyer was named John Adams. He would later become the 2nd president of the United States of America. Also his second cousin made beer. Sam Adams.
No no no. The Japanese translation of The Boston Tea Party is exactly correct. The term is a characteristically American sarcastic name for an organized act of civil disobedience.
Not very surprising that the term Boston Tea Party was mis-translated, as the term was originally coined mostly out of a sense of sarcasm, which often doesn't get conveyed very well in the translation to Japanese.
It's actually the correct translation. The notion of political parties wasn't present in America at that time. It was a reference to the hoity-toy tea parties held in Britain. "This is how we hold a tea tarty, buttheads." About 250 years later, the TEA Party coopted the terminology to form a subfaction of the Republican Party. TEA was a "backronym" for Taxed Enough Already.
@@ZKP314 Watching that all happen in real time was wild. It actually started as grassroots before getting bankrolled by foxnews and turning into the shitshow we all remember. Just dont let em tarnish the lunatics who destroyed corporate property to invoke a colonial response they could use to foment a revolution that would give them control over their own "property".
@@ZKP314 Sounds more like a backronym...the connection with the Founding Fathers not wanting to pay taxes was the important one...then someone was like "Taxed Enough Already", amirite?
No not the largest battle. It was the largest battle engagement by spain. The largest navel battle is still off yorktown. The most influential was the engagements was in the irish sea and the raid of Whitehaven.
In America and England we also call the event the “Boston Tea Party”. It’s a mockery of English tea parties like the picture you featured. Our defiance in Boston was the American tea party.
No, no, no the Boston Tea Party is correctly translated. However it is heavily laced with sarcasm meant to piss off the British. They still grumble about it to this day.
During the Sengoku Jidai, Japan did have one of the the world's largest, most well-drilled and tactically sophisticated pike-and-shot armies. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's regime did muster something like 250,000 men to attack Korea with in 1592. Japan during this time even surpassed the whole of Europe in gun production for a short while. However, during the peaceful Edo period where no-one save for the samurai was permitted to own weapons, musket production decreased severely, and the martial arts became more artsy than martial. It is interesting to see how Japan incorporated gunpowder weaponry into its military tactics during the Sengoku Jidai. Teppo ashigaru were expected to fight as light skirmishers and also as well-drilled blocks of men who could deliver disciplined fusilades of musket fire. They were to soften up the enemy line so that the yari ashigaru or the samurai could deliver the killing blow with a good old charge into melee. There was always an emphasis on speed and shock. That could be the reason for why Japanese armies never incorporated large cannons into their forces till the Meiji era - because they were too slow. Japanese armies in Korea during the years of 1592 - 1598 did very well in field battles, but their lack of heavy cannons didn't do them any favors when it came time to siege an enemy stronghold. This emphasis on maneuver and infiltration over pure firepower eerily seems to last all the way up to World War 2. Meanwhile, Ming and Qing dynasty China (especially the former) relied on great batteries of artillery and slow, ponderous formations of conscripted arquebus-armed infantry that were supplemented by a mostly Mongol or Manchurian professional cavalry force. European armies meanwhile started ditching bows, crossbows and pikes with the introduction of better types of muskets and cannons, and created the educational systems and training regimes required to really give such weapons their full effect.
@John Ratican Yep. Edo period Japan may have flourished culturally but it was still a military dictatorship run by a feudal Shogunate. I'm not an expert, but apparently it had all the trappings of a modern totalitarian state, up to and including having a secret police, and a department of propaganda. Funny how Japanese citizens had the right to own arms till the end of the Sengoku Jidai, when everyone's weapons were confiscated so as to solidify the new regime's hold over the entire country and to dissuade rebellion. And to this day, it is extremely hard for anyone in Japan to get their hands on a firearm legally. People inherit a lot more from their ancestors than they think!
There are several reasons that I think Washington's retreat over the East River is not given the mythical, environmental treatment as is the Kamikaze during the war with the Mongols. But the most interesting one is that unifying Japanese religious beliefs had been state policy on-and-off at different times in Japanese history--at least as I understand it. On the other hand, religious diversity within the colonies was very common. They were almost all Christians, but they were all members of different sects of Christianity. So it was less likely they would all read the favorable weather as divine intervention because religion was *much* more decentralized in the American colonies.
@@drtruth8 I think everyone with an even slightly secular upbringing doesn't think of it as anything but luck and bravado. I have heard radical Christians like Evangelicals talk about it as divine action though.
@@drtruth8 Yeah, fortunately my part of the country leaves the learning of history to the studying of history, not the study and practice of spirituality. And my point was not that the understanding of US history was totally secular. For instance, it was even part of what I have learned that a religious impetus was at the heart of "Manifest Destiny" and various forms of American Exceptionalism. Rather, my point was that the understanding of it as divine intervention was not widespread because the colonists were not united under the same church. In fact, in-fighting between different churches was common in several states after the Treaty of Paris. I referred to other reasons most Americans don't attribute the crossing of the East River to divine intervention. I lived in Brooklyn Heights for three years, and I can tell you at certain times of the year, a pre-dawn fog is more common than otherwise. Furthermore, General Washington and several of his soldiers were farmers during peacetime. And they were camped in Brooklyn for at least a week, and would have known the terrain and weather well. These men predicted the weather conditions for their retreat by their own ingenuity alone. I suspect a certain disconnect between Americans of our generation and our natural instincts from living off the land is growing with the rise of suburbanism and factory farming. One symptom of this might be an easy willingness to see God where he is not, when what happens is just thoughtless nature. But another symptom is conservation failures. I learned a year ago, for instance, that the Emperor Charlemagne mandated conservation of forestland to cultivate hunting game. This is similar to Roosevelt's conservation policies, which were meant to conserve species for hunting. In short, I think there is a balance between humanity and nature that, the more I understand suburbanism and modern US agriculture, the more I see aspects of American culture lost (and which I think, while it may overlap with Christian morality, is independent or distinct from it). And I hypothesize the way Americans in the 18th Century viewed their world was fundamentally different as well because their relationship with the land was so different.
@@davewolf6256 Not everyone was of the same church, but virtually everyone was Christian. The rest of your points are pretty spot on. I would just add that there was a sort of religious motivation in manifest destiny, manifest destiny was just not a view shared by everyone and usually not even by majority of people. Those who followed the idea thought that America was divinely ordained to spread westwards. The idea was that God had given the US a continent and had given Americans the duty of settling and Christianizing the land. Not everyone who subscribed to the idea had a religious view of the concept but quite a few did. Those who saw the event in secular terms viewed western expanaiom as a moral duty for the purpose of spreading civilization rather than Christianity and they saw the expansion as extremely useful given the geographic sdvantages a coast to coast empire provides. What is also true though is that very man Americans thought that manifest destiny was silly even at the time. They saw naked conquest as naked conquest, the ease of spreading west as a result of historical accident, and they viewed with suspicion those who idealized violent expansionism as destiny made manifest. Many also had political problems with manifest destiny, particularly those who feared the expansion or suppression of slavery and those who saw the wars with Mexico and Spain as unnecessary and as a form of bullying.
@@davewolf6256 It's kinda like the South during the American Civil War. One of the factors why the Union lost so many battles was because the Confederates knew the land well. Especially in Virginia.
I commend you for watching this video. It's spoken really really fast and uses a lot of weird English and slang, but you seemed to get it great. Meanwhile i still struggle with basic Japanese listening hahaha
Something very important to remember is that, one, the American Revolution was as much a propaganda war as a shooting war. The Boston Massacre was blown way out of proportion and reporting was heavily slanted against the British. It's just one example of the press using events to rile people up. I'm not saying the colonists weren't justified in their rebellion, but the colonials had a very good propaganda machine and the British didn't do themselves many favors on the public image front. It's also important to remember that for the British, this wasn't a revolution, it was a civil war. Washington and the other founders were traitors and criminals, legally speaking. A revolution is only a revolution if it's successful. Until then, it's just a civil war.
@Persnikitty As far as I know that never actually happened. That was added into The Patriot to characterize Tarleton. He never did anything quite that bad, but he was called The Butcher, and you don't get that nickname for nothing, and Cornwallis basically just pointed him at the Carolinas and said "go get 'em!"
@@prind142 I recall something being said to the effect that that specific incident didn't happen, but as a character defining moment for Tarleton as a character, it works well. Essentially Tarleton was a bad dude, but rather than spend an hour explaining why, they just used a scene that, while a bit over the top, gives you a good idea of the kind of guy he was. Probably a better one than if they had spent the same amount of time on a more historically accurate scene.
The “Tea Party” translation is actually correct! Basically, the name is actually a sarcastic joke. Tea goes in water, right? Imagine the ocean as the water, and the party members the ones cheering and and dumping the tea Americans sometimes name historical events in a sort of comedic manner, but this might be a greater English culture thing because I think our English commonwealth (UK+Fellow British Colonies) siblings do it as well.
@@ThaatEpicKitten I think the person means that you’re misunderstanding the actual “joke” in the Boston Tea Party. It was a rather satirical sort of thing, and wasn’t anything about tea’s connection to water. This event of tossing a very expensive amount of tea in the ocean is called by that name as a kind of mockery of actual tea parties, except instead of sitting around enjoying tea, it was a boycott against the tea tax
@@Professor_Brie that’s actually what I’m saying. I’m not sure if I understand what you’re gettin at, sorry 😅 Maybe what you’re saying that this describes irony not sarcasm? I think the joke can be interpreted both ways personally.
The term “Boston Tea Party” is a bit of a joke. The term Party here doesn’t mean “group” or “association”. They meant it like “celebration” or “festival” as a mockery to England and its tea.
The 2010 rise of “The Tea Party” a group of ultra-conservative Republicans in the US Congress may cause confusion because that Tea Party is a political organization.
18:18 - Speaking of the kamikaze, it happened again in the War of 1812. The British took Washington DC and set the city ablaze, but then a tornado (which are rare in that area) swept in and disrupted the British advance.
1775, the same year Anthony Wayne himself was living inside his log hut until 1778 when he decided to join the Revolutionary War as a soldier. Then later on became a wealthy man in the end of the war.
The Party in Boston Tea Party was in the sense of a fun gathering. They said they were giving a tea party for the British King. The group involved called themselves the Sons of Liberty.
The original draft of the declaration of independence condemned slavery as well, but it was removed because unfortunately they would not have unanimous approval if they went with that version at the time. the founders believed slavery would have been gone by long before the mid 1800s.
The Boston Tea Party is the satirical play on words in the English language. There are Tea parties to enjoy. But this event was the exact opposite with an ironic name.
Hey there, I love your stuff, it was quite interesting to see parallels of what was happening in Japan while all of this was going on - japanese history is not taught at all in US schools so few Americans know much about it. A comment I've seen floating around a bit that I want to reitterate - the use of the word 'party' in The Boston Tea Party does infact reference a celebration/party. It is used as a joke though, it was sarcastic. The Sons of Liberty were "throwing the King a tea party" by dumping all of the tea into the water. So the way you learned it is actually more accurate than you may have thought. You learned it just as American students do actually, though maybe the sarcastic nature of it was a little lost.
Really, you are excellent! As to the difference in the use of guns versus sharp stuff like katanas, the British had an advantage in close quarter fighting over our minutemen. They had bayonettes and our guys did not. Once in close combat, our boys got the worst of it, which is another reason we tended to run after the initial gunfire. The other reason is that we had to 'not lose' as opposed to the Brits needing to 'Win.' As long as Washington had an army in the field, the Revolution was a kind of success. This was a very close thing for over a year, with defeat only one meal or one battle away. BTW, the most fearsome and deadly fights were between colonial rebels and colonial loyalists, with some prisoners being killed on the battlefield in southern state fighting.
This is very cool, thanks for sharing this! As an American, we learn very little about pre-Meiji Japan so it's very cool seeing what was happening in Japan while big developments were happening in America
From what I've read about Japanese acquisition of firearms, Japan became one of the largest producers of firearms in the world during the warring states period and many of their designs rivaled or even surpassed the European ones (possibly because Japan was still heavily wartorn whereas Europe was experiencing a period of relative peace).
I really appreciate how transformative your reaction format is. Comparing historical events to each other gives an interesting perspective to the viewer.
Woops. The Shot Heard 'Round the World was not fired in Lexington, but at Concord's North Bridge, and refers to the first time a British citizen was ordered to fire on British troops. The engagement at Lexington was rather one-sided, with a dozen or so dead or wounded Colonials, and one wounded British soldier. The militia were about to back down when someone's musket discharged, and the British soldiers opened fire en masse on the militia - it was more of a massacre than a battle.
Nope your historian got it right when he translated it as a "party" what was lost is it's a very sarcastic name for what happened. Or what we'd call a tongue in cheek joke. See also Americans find it hilarious Brit's probably not so much then. Now they probably get a good chuckle out of it also. Then again they do love their tea so probably not.
They did mean party like an event. It’s is named as an ironic joke. A meme if you will. In modern times the “tea party” refers to a particular political group formed in the 2000s I believe.
Nice video! Over the summer, I was teaching some Japanese elementary school students about the American Revolution, so this was fun to watch and see what was going on in Japan at that time. One thing I learned is that "The Boston Tea Party" was not called that at the time; it was referred to simply as "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor" and didn't get named "The Boston Tea Party" until 1829 when a newspaper reported the death of a man who had participated in it. Also, 22 percent of the tea destroyed was green tea!
Oh, I love seeing parallels like these! I see things from such an American point of view, and our teachers didn't teach anything about how history unfolded in other countries during this time. Sometimes, I look up timelines to see when various historical events happened in relation to another event. So, this kind of thing is fascinating to me. Thank you for sharing your history! I love Japan so much!
This is my favorite channel for reactions. It is very easy for *other* people to simply sit there and occasionally talk over someone else’s content, but you provide the context of perspective from your country’s own history and culture. I enjoy hearing you talk about the Japanese point of view on these things!
Instead of the Kamakazi wind, perhaps you could equate Washington's escape more closely to the 4th Kawanakajima, where Uesugi stole a march on Takeda due to fog.
Thanks for the free Japanese history lesson. I’m planning to move permanently to Japan within the next several years. Japan is so beautiful and full of rich history. I’m looking forward to visiting next year and seeing the historical beauty and I’d like to see the Toori gates.
I love how you compared US History with Japanese History! Your video really gave me a broader insight and gave me some information about Japan that I did not know about. Good video!
I love this idea. We, speaking as an American, learn our own history, and then world history at separate times and in separate classes. I always felt like it was hard for me to contextualize things on a wider scale.
I'd like to see your impression of the American Civil War oversimplified. I am a new subscriber after seeing your reaction to the WWII oversimplified videos.
Pretty cool to see the perspective from someone from such a different part of the world, gotta say though somethings gotta be done about the background noise. I think it's not as bad in this one but still pretty noticeable.
I actually like that he gives out these little facts on him his people's history it is very entertaining and I find it very cool it is very interesting
I have watched your videos a couple of times and I am from the US and I actually like all the history facts and point out I've always been somewhat of a history buff
The translators were right! The Party actually DOES refer to a party, as in a social gathering where people have fun. The British had a custom where friends would gather to drink tea and gossip. This was called a "Tea Party". The Boston Tea Party was called this as a form of sarcasm and ridicule.
You showed a picture of Tom Cruise from the last samurai as a samurai but it’s not totally impossible as there was a European samurai and if my memory serves me right he was called Maura Anjin. Appearently he was befriended by a samurai lord and was made a Japanese samurai, he had to be Japanese because the law was that all foreigners landing in Japan had to be immediately killed. Maura Anjin was known as the white samurai. James Clavill wrote a novel based loosely on the white samurai Gai Jin. It’s an interesting story. I love military history and Japanese history is my current target. I just finished reading Musashi! What a great story, I as an American am glad that the warship Musashi was not as perfect and successful as the man. I like the fact that you know your history, you have a subscriber from Phoenix, Arizona USA.
Want another historical disconnect, Rome (~509 BCE) was founded around 170-180 years before Alexander the Great (reigned 332-323 BCE) started his conquest. In other words Rome was founded before the Classical Period of Greece (~480-323 BCE). That one usually gets people.
The fact about the gold and silver temple was really cool. They are 3rd and 4th on my list of things to visit while in Japan. Being the national history museum and another temple where 3 of the tenka-goken are being held for viewing the other 2 i don't think ill ever be lucky enough to get the honor to see.
Finally, a reaction that is doing a time comparison of what others were doing at the time. I hated in history class that everything felt like separate threads and it was hard to get the bigger picture that way. Love this!
I know a bit of japanese history, and I know American history well, but I never thought to overlay the two. Now I want to see a flowchart showing every event in history of the world.
Henry Knox won the battle of Boston, strictly on the logistical feat of transporting heavy cannon crosscountry. The normal means at the time was by water, which the British controlled.
The shot heard around the world came after the confrontation when the small group of colonists fled after exchanging fire with British. What the British did not know when chasing after them was that it was a trap. The hillside was lined with rifle men. When the British were in sight they all opened fire at once, making the illusion of one loud blast. That was the shot heard around the world
I love watching your history videos, especially the ones about modern history. Sometimes I'm reminded about things I learned before that I found interesting, and sometimes I learn something new. Would love to hear more about the post-war period in Japan.
Thank you for bringing up the Boston tea party. Yes in American English it is pronounced the Boston tea party. As an American I always thought it was a festive party too. Thank you for putting two and two together and sayig it's a party of people; as in a group. Even from British English to American English the Boston tea party has been a head scratcher for grade school students everywhere. And I have to ask did they have fun at their Boston tea party? Real question who else was surprised about the native American disguise? Seems extremely weird that a party of native Americans would just be strolling through Boston, board a British ship, and then through tea overboard. that sounds more suspicious, than just going in casual clothes.
I actually learned about Ginkakuji and Kinkakuji when I was a kid, because I was reading about the inspiration behind different places in the 2nd generation of Pokemon games, and in Ekutreak city, there are the burned Brass Tower and still-standing Tin Tower, which are based upon Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji.
during the same time of the American Revloution in the 18th century my family was still living in India. in the 18th Century India was still one of the largest economy with 23% of World GDP. the East India Trading Company had conqured the Bengal Subha region. during the 7 years Wars . you also had the rise of powerfull Kingdoms such as the Maratha Empire. and the Sikh Punjabi Empire founded in the year 1799 when Ranjit Singh captured Lahore now modern day Pakistan than part of India. Charles Lord Cornwails after losing to Geroge Washington. in the American Revloution would go on to become Govener Genral of India
I'm actually a little shocked that the Boston Tea Party is taught in Japan. We are taught about Commodore Perry, but other than WWII, that is the only mention of Japan in American history I remember from school. I love the commentary about what was happening in Japan at the time. I recently watched the Netflix documentary about the Sengoku Jidai. It was called "Age of Samurai" if I recall correctly. I highly recommend it to any of your viewers that are interested in Japanese history.
Really thought I would find a comment about this....but....in grade school when my class learned of the boston tea party we became quite confused as to how a war started over a party. It was not until our parents explained that it was not the fun type of party we thought it was that we understood. But, like every good american born in the early 80's we thought it was great and wish we could do it as well!
I have a pretty nice Kokeshi Doll collection also. I do displays at our local library, for the children and adults. I show how the designs change over the years. I have many hobbies, so I can appreciate the simplicity of design and artistry. I'm always looking for interesting designs, and have been creating my own Kokeshi's.
Your teacher translated “party” correctly. It was a Boston Tea Rager. Also, it’s nice to know that kamikaze means more than crashing airplanes into ships.
The “American revolution oversimplified” video is pretty accurate from what I remember from school but I would like to make the point that neither Christopher Columbus nor the Vikings discovered the Americas. Columbus is often celebrated and even has a holiday that celebrates him in the United States. However, there were already millions of people living here in the americas who had been for hundreds of years. In the US, a lot of people believe that Christopher Columbus should not be celebrated or given credit for traveling to the Americas. He and his crew raped, enslaved, and murdered countless native people and the Europeans continued doing that when they arrived here as well. Now, in a number of the US states, the “Columbus Day” holiday is now being changed to “Indigenous Peoples Day” to switch to celebrating those native Americans whose land was stolen via the actions Christopher Columbus.
Japan used a LOT of guns during the sangoku jidai. During the invasion of korea about every 1 in 3 samurai had a gun. Oda nobunagas entire strategy waz to arm ashigaru in rankz with guns and have them fire in formations. His arch enemy the ikko ikki peasant/monk rebelion also used this tactic.
Interesting thing about the USA is that they were the first nation found on revolution, this was soon followed by many other nations like Haiti,France, and Mexico (which is part of my heritage besides my European side), America's revolution inspired many nations to question authority of their nation and to want to achieve their own rights, I am getting more familiar with Japanese history and Japan's post-WW2 constitution matches certain things in the Declaration of Independence and the current American constitution
The Boston Tea party is a bit of an expression of American humor. It was an type of attack, so the tea leaves went into the water making an insult to the British tea, so it was ironically called "Tea Party"
Watching a Japanese man learning US history while also bestowing upon us some Japanese history that follows the same time period? If only we had reached this level of youtube while I was in school.
IKR? meanwhile, the Philippines was still a colony of Spain during that time.
Thinking the same, its easy to compare when he does this.
i hope he see or now know this but in America i leant it also as the Boston tea party
@ChoppedBlade you can't be serious?
@ChoppedBlade if he's a teacher, I'm sure he's had to get his bachelor's degree at least (a requirement to becoming a teacher, along with state certification). Even if he's new, that's still kinda basic stuff to know (well not basic- basic, but also not overly detailed and "into the nitty gritty" type of stuff, you know?)
The phrase “tea party” is used sarcastically when talking about the Boston Tea Party. An actual tea party is a small gathering of people socializing and drinking hot tea and eating cookies. It’s a very British thing. So this event where the Americans took the British tea and threw it overboard was sarcastically called a “tea party”.
It is sort of similar to how Molotov cocktail is not a beverage but the literal meaning of cocktail is a drink.
@@lenaznap It's sort of similar to how a Black Russian isn't really a Russian of African descent, it's just a cocktail made with vodka and Kahlua.
That isn't sarcasm. Try again.
@@docsavage8640 There is a special place for a-holes who nitpick word choice without providing the correct alternative.
In this case, Droll Irony.
@@devlinmorin7615 I can only imagine that's where you're speaking from.
The guy didn't yell 'The British are coming'. At the time the colonies still considered themselves as British. What he said was 'The Redcoats are coming' as redcoats were the name of the soldiers in the British royal army.
If I recall correctly he called them Regulars and not the redcoats or British. The reason this is is for the reason they didn't want to alert the local British sympathizers and local British units around the country side and such.
I think it's called "The regulars are coming"
@@theemeraldshaft3552 There were multiple riders. Paul R was just the first/main one. It’s generally believed that he cried “The regulars are coming!” as a call to the militia (the minute men). Others are thought to have said “The red coats are coming!” Because it was easier to get out while riding horse back. Any loyalist would know what “regular“ meant as it was a common term both in England and in the Colonies at that time.
6:45 You might find this interesting. Those British soldiers were tried in court by the Americans afterwards, with a jury full of Americans who were extremely anti-British. Under almost any circumstances these men were doomed to imprisonment or even death. They were defended by an American lawyer. Some even accused this lawyer of treason against America for defending the British soldiers. Against all odds, that lawyer won the case defending the Soldiers. That lawyer was named John Adams. He would later become the 2nd president of the United States of America. Also his second cousin made beer. Sam Adams.
@@noahs7084 I was making a joke.
And his son John Quincy Adams also became the 6th president of the United States of America.
Don't forget that Samuel Adams was a member of the Sons of Liberty lol
I didn't know Sam Adams and John Adams were related, but I guess it makes sense!
The founding fathers were really ahead of their time
No no no. The Japanese translation of The Boston Tea Party is exactly correct. The term is a characteristically American sarcastic name for an organized act of civil disobedience.
Not sarcasm. Try again.
@@docsavage8640 you need to get a life and a dictionary.
@@kokofan50 lol
@@kokofan50 It's not sarcasm, it's a satirical euphemism.
@@natsume-hime2473 that’s sarcasm
Not very surprising that the term Boston Tea Party was mis-translated, as the term was originally coined mostly out of a sense of sarcasm, which often doesn't get conveyed very well in the translation to Japanese.
It's actually the correct translation. The notion of political parties wasn't present in America at that time. It was a reference to the hoity-toy tea parties held in Britain. "This is how we hold a tea tarty, buttheads."
About 250 years later, the TEA Party coopted the terminology to form a subfaction of the Republican Party. TEA was a "backronym" for Taxed Enough Already.
@@ANunes06 The Tea in Tea Party was an acronym?
Huh. Did not know that.
@@ZKP314 Watching that all happen in real time was wild. It actually started as grassroots before getting bankrolled by foxnews and turning into the shitshow we all remember.
Just dont let em tarnish the lunatics who destroyed corporate property to invoke a colonial response they could use to foment a revolution that would give them control over their own "property".
Not sarcasm. Try again.
@@ZKP314 Sounds more like a backronym...the connection with the Founding Fathers not wanting to pay taxes was the important one...then someone was like "Taxed Enough Already", amirite?
Fun fact: The biggest battle in this war wasn't actually in America but it was in Spain. Where the Spanish tried to seize Gibraltar from the British.
I think us Americans tend to forget that Spain helped us along with France.
(most just remember France)
According to Hamilton Musical, France and Spain head a war with Britain
@@starorcarina8525 the Spanish tried to seize Gibraltar.
No not the largest battle. It was the largest battle engagement by spain. The largest navel battle is still off yorktown. The most influential was the engagements was in the irish sea and the raid of Whitehaven.
@@TheSkyGuy77 we honestly barely remember France
In America and England we also call the event the “Boston Tea Party”. It’s a mockery of English tea parties like the picture you featured. Our defiance in Boston was the American tea party.
Americans also drink cold tea we prefer hot tea
No, no, no the Boston Tea Party is correctly translated. However it is heavily laced with sarcasm meant to piss off the British. They still grumble about it to this day.
During the Sengoku Jidai, Japan did have one of the the world's largest, most well-drilled and tactically sophisticated pike-and-shot armies. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's regime did muster something like 250,000 men to attack Korea with in 1592. Japan during this time even surpassed the whole of Europe in gun production for a short while. However, during the peaceful Edo period where no-one save for the samurai was permitted to own weapons, musket production decreased severely, and the martial arts became more artsy than martial.
It is interesting to see how Japan incorporated gunpowder weaponry into its military tactics during the Sengoku Jidai. Teppo ashigaru were expected to fight as light skirmishers and also as well-drilled blocks of men who could deliver disciplined fusilades of musket fire. They were to soften up the enemy line so that the yari ashigaru or the samurai could deliver the killing blow with a good old charge into melee. There was always an emphasis on speed and shock. That could be the reason for why Japanese armies never incorporated large cannons into their forces till the Meiji era - because they were too slow. Japanese armies in Korea during the years of 1592 - 1598 did very well in field battles, but their lack of heavy cannons didn't do them any favors when it came time to siege an enemy stronghold. This emphasis on maneuver and infiltration over pure firepower eerily seems to last all the way up to World War 2.
Meanwhile, Ming and Qing dynasty China (especially the former) relied on great batteries of artillery and slow, ponderous formations of conscripted arquebus-armed infantry that were supplemented by a mostly Mongol or Manchurian professional cavalry force. European armies meanwhile started ditching bows, crossbows and pikes with the introduction of better types of muskets and cannons, and created the educational systems and training regimes required to really give such weapons their full effect.
@John Ratican Yep. Edo period Japan may have flourished culturally but it was still a military dictatorship run by a feudal Shogunate. I'm not an expert, but apparently it had all the trappings of a modern totalitarian state, up to and including having a secret police, and a department of propaganda.
Funny how Japanese citizens had the right to own arms till the end of the Sengoku Jidai, when everyone's weapons were confiscated so as to solidify the new regime's hold over the entire country and to dissuade rebellion. And to this day, it is extremely hard for anyone in Japan to get their hands on a firearm legally. People inherit a lot more from their ancestors than they think!
There are several reasons that I think Washington's retreat over the East River is not given the mythical, environmental treatment as is the Kamikaze during the war with the Mongols. But the most interesting one is that unifying Japanese religious beliefs had been state policy on-and-off at different times in Japanese history--at least as I understand it. On the other hand, religious diversity within the colonies was very common. They were almost all Christians, but they were all members of different sects of Christianity. So it was less likely they would all read the favorable weather as divine intervention because religion was *much* more decentralized in the American colonies.
@@drtruth8 I think everyone with an even slightly secular upbringing doesn't think of it as anything but luck and bravado. I have heard radical Christians like Evangelicals talk about it as divine action though.
@@drtruth8 Yeah, fortunately my part of the country leaves the learning of history to the studying of history, not the study and practice of spirituality.
And my point was not that the understanding of US history was totally secular. For instance, it was even part of what I have learned that a religious impetus was at the heart of "Manifest Destiny" and various forms of American Exceptionalism.
Rather, my point was that the understanding of it as divine intervention was not widespread because the colonists were not united under the same church. In fact, in-fighting between different churches was common in several states after the Treaty of Paris.
I referred to other reasons most Americans don't attribute the crossing of the East River to divine intervention. I lived in Brooklyn Heights for three years, and I can tell you at certain times of the year, a pre-dawn fog is more common than otherwise. Furthermore, General Washington and several of his soldiers were farmers during peacetime. And they were camped in Brooklyn for at least a week, and would have known the terrain and weather well. These men predicted the weather conditions for their retreat by their own ingenuity alone.
I suspect a certain disconnect between Americans of our generation and our natural instincts from living off the land is growing with the rise of suburbanism and factory farming. One symptom of this might be an easy willingness to see God where he is not, when what happens is just thoughtless nature. But another symptom is conservation failures. I learned a year ago, for instance, that the Emperor Charlemagne mandated conservation of forestland to cultivate hunting game. This is similar to Roosevelt's conservation policies, which were meant to conserve species for hunting.
In short, I think there is a balance between humanity and nature that, the more I understand suburbanism and modern US agriculture, the more I see aspects of American culture lost (and which I think, while it may overlap with Christian morality, is independent or distinct from it). And I hypothesize the way Americans in the 18th Century viewed their world was fundamentally different as well because their relationship with the land was so different.
@@davewolf6256 Not everyone was of the same church, but virtually everyone was Christian. The rest of your points are pretty spot on.
I would just add that there was a sort of religious motivation in manifest destiny, manifest destiny was just not a view shared by everyone and usually not even by majority of people. Those who followed the idea thought that America was divinely ordained to spread westwards. The idea was that God had given the US a continent and had given Americans the duty of settling and Christianizing the land. Not everyone who subscribed to the idea had a religious view of the concept but quite a few did. Those who saw the event in secular terms viewed western expanaiom as a moral duty for the purpose of spreading civilization rather than Christianity and they saw the expansion as extremely useful given the geographic sdvantages a coast to coast empire provides. What is also true though is that very man Americans thought that manifest destiny was silly even at the time. They saw naked conquest as naked conquest, the ease of spreading west as a result of historical accident, and they viewed with suspicion those who idealized violent expansionism as destiny made manifest. Many also had political problems with manifest destiny, particularly those who feared the expansion or suppression of slavery and those who saw the wars with Mexico and Spain as unnecessary and as a form of bullying.
@@davewolf6256 It's kinda like the South during the American Civil War. One of the factors why the Union lost so many battles was because the Confederates knew the land well. Especially in Virginia.
@John Ratican it's better than getting wiped out on the first year.
This was really cool; seeing a comparison of what was happening in America vs what was happening in Japan at the time was super cool!
I commend you for watching this video. It's spoken really really fast and uses a lot of weird English and slang, but you seemed to get it great. Meanwhile i still struggle with basic Japanese listening hahaha
The thumbnail, lol
It certainly stands out
Teacher: “You can’t hear images”
My brain: Yoooooooooooooooo!
@@huchung9886 *tink tink tinktinktink tink tink*
Ukiyo-e is a lifestyle friend
Something very important to remember is that, one, the American Revolution was as much a propaganda war as a shooting war. The Boston Massacre was blown way out of proportion and reporting was heavily slanted against the British. It's just one example of the press using events to rile people up. I'm not saying the colonists weren't justified in their rebellion, but the colonials had a very good propaganda machine and the British didn't do themselves many favors on the public image front.
It's also important to remember that for the British, this wasn't a revolution, it was a civil war. Washington and the other founders were traitors and criminals, legally speaking. A revolution is only a revolution if it's successful. Until then, it's just a civil war.
@Persnikitty As far as I know that never actually happened. That was added into The Patriot to characterize Tarleton. He never did anything quite that bad, but he was called The Butcher, and you don't get that nickname for nothing, and Cornwallis basically just pointed him at the Carolinas and said "go get 'em!"
@@michealdrake3421 I do believe it was an actual event, it's just in the wrong place and time. Might have even been a totally different war.
@@prind142 I recall something being said to the effect that that specific incident didn't happen, but as a character defining moment for Tarleton as a character, it works well. Essentially Tarleton was a bad dude, but rather than spend an hour explaining why, they just used a scene that, while a bit over the top, gives you a good idea of the kind of guy he was. Probably a better one than if they had spent the same amount of time on a more historically accurate scene.
It's the same for the French.
The “Tea Party” translation is actually correct!
Basically, the name is actually a sarcastic joke.
Tea goes in water, right? Imagine the ocean as the water, and the party members the ones cheering and and dumping the tea
Americans sometimes name historical events in a sort of comedic manner, but this might be a greater English culture thing because I think our English commonwealth (UK+Fellow British Colonies) siblings do it as well.
You should learn what sarcasm means.
Matt Celis ?? The usage of this word seems to line up correctly in this sentence. Could you explain what you meant?
@@ThaatEpicKitten I think the person means that you’re misunderstanding the actual “joke” in the Boston Tea Party. It was a rather satirical sort of thing, and wasn’t anything about tea’s connection to water. This event of tossing a very expensive amount of tea in the ocean is called by that name as a kind of mockery of actual tea parties, except instead of sitting around enjoying tea, it was a boycott against the tea tax
@@Professor_Brie that’s actually what I’m saying. I’m not sure if I understand what you’re gettin at, sorry 😅
Maybe what you’re saying that this describes irony not sarcasm? I think the joke can be interpreted both ways personally.
The term “Boston Tea Party” is a bit of a joke. The term Party here doesn’t mean “group” or “association”. They meant it like “celebration” or “festival” as a mockery to England and its tea.
The 2010 rise of “The Tea Party” a group of ultra-conservative Republicans in the US Congress may cause confusion because that Tea Party is a political organization.
tl;dr The Boston Tea Party in 1773 was an event, not a group.
“The Sons of Liberty” was the name of the group that held “the Boston Tea Party” in 1773
When I was a kid, I thought The Boston Tea Party’s name was a joke. Like they made tea by throwing it in the harbor to have a tea party.
That’s exactly what it means. Are you an idiot?
@@maticstudios i wouldn't want to drink cold tea from a harbor.
18:18 - Speaking of the kamikaze, it happened again in the War of 1812. The British took Washington DC and set the city ablaze, but then a tornado (which are rare in that area) swept in and disrupted the British advance.
1775, the same year Anthony Wayne himself was living inside his log hut until 1778 when he decided to join the Revolutionary War as a soldier. Then later on became a wealthy man in the end of the war.
The Party in Boston Tea Party was in the sense of a fun gathering. They said they were giving a tea party for the British King. The group involved called themselves the Sons of Liberty.
Yeah, and some of their prominent leaders dressed up as native Americans, to conceal their identity.
"...you've been showing up in a military uniform everyday for the last 10 months..."😆
He literally did, mainly because that was the only suit he had
The original draft of the declaration of independence condemned slavery as well, but it was removed because unfortunately they would not have unanimous approval if they went with that version at the time. the founders believed slavery would have been gone by long before the mid 1800s.
The Boston Tea Party is the satirical play on words in the English language.
There are Tea parties to enjoy. But this event was the exact opposite with an ironic name.
Hey there, I love your stuff, it was quite interesting to see parallels of what was happening in Japan while all of this was going on - japanese history is not taught at all in US schools so few Americans know much about it.
A comment I've seen floating around a bit that I want to reitterate - the use of the word 'party' in The Boston Tea Party does infact reference a celebration/party. It is used as a joke though, it was sarcastic. The Sons of Liberty were "throwing the King a tea party" by dumping all of the tea into the water. So the way you learned it is actually more accurate than you may have thought. You learned it just as American students do actually, though maybe the sarcastic nature of it was a little lost.
Nah just depends on your county and state and what history class ur taking
"Party" as is "event" is correct. It's tongue in cheek.
Really, you are excellent!
As to the difference in the use of guns versus sharp stuff like katanas, the British had an advantage in close quarter fighting over our minutemen. They had bayonettes and our guys did not. Once in close combat, our boys got the worst of it, which is another reason we tended to run after the initial gunfire. The other reason is that we had to 'not lose' as opposed to the Brits needing to 'Win.' As long as Washington had an army in the field, the Revolution was a kind of success. This was a very close thing for over a year, with defeat only one meal or one battle away. BTW, the most fearsome and deadly fights were between colonial rebels and colonial loyalists, with some prisoners being killed on the battlefield in southern state fighting.
As a Swedish American... I’m slightly hurt that the Vikings were skipped over...
This is very cool, thanks for sharing this! As an American, we learn very little about pre-Meiji Japan so it's very cool seeing what was happening in Japan while big developments were happening in America
it was a tea event. We used the harbor to brew the biggest cup the British ever saw.
We were more salty about losing the tea than anything else. All that undrunk tea brings a tear to the eye. 😂🤣
From what I've read about Japanese acquisition of firearms, Japan became one of the largest producers of firearms in the world during the warring states period and many of their designs rivaled or even surpassed the European ones (possibly because Japan was still heavily wartorn whereas Europe was experiencing a period of relative peace).
I really appreciate how transformative your reaction format is. Comparing historical events to each other gives an interesting perspective to the viewer.
Woops. The Shot Heard 'Round the World was not fired in Lexington, but at Concord's North Bridge, and refers to the first time a British citizen was ordered to fire on British troops. The engagement at Lexington was rather one-sided, with a dozen or so dead or wounded Colonials, and one wounded British soldier. The militia were about to back down when someone's musket discharged, and the British soldiers opened fire en masse on the militia - it was more of a massacre than a battle.
Nope your historian got it right when he translated it as a "party" what was lost is it's a very sarcastic name for what happened. Or what we'd call a tongue in cheek joke. See also Americans find it hilarious Brit's probably not so much then. Now they probably get a good chuckle out of it also. Then again they do love their tea so probably not.
They did mean party like an event. It’s is named as an ironic joke. A meme if you will. In modern times the “tea party” refers to a particular political group formed in the 2000s I believe.
Nice video! Over the summer, I was teaching some Japanese elementary school students about the American Revolution, so this was fun to watch and see what was going on in Japan at that time. One thing I learned is that "The Boston Tea Party" was not called that at the time; it was referred to simply as "The Destruction of Tea at Boston Harbor" and didn't get named "The Boston Tea Party" until 1829 when a newspaper reported the death of a man who had participated in it.
Also, 22 percent of the tea destroyed was green tea!
Oh, I love seeing parallels like these! I see things from such an American point of view, and our teachers didn't teach anything about how history unfolded in other countries during this time. Sometimes, I look up timelines to see when various historical events happened in relation to another event. So, this kind of thing is fascinating to me. Thank you for sharing your history! I love Japan so much!
thank you for the details about the concurrent history of Japan.
This is my favorite channel for reactions.
It is very easy for *other* people to simply sit there and occasionally talk over someone else’s content, but you provide the context of perspective from your country’s own history and culture.
I enjoy hearing you talk about the Japanese point of view on these things!
Instead of the Kamakazi wind, perhaps you could equate Washington's escape more closely to the 4th Kawanakajima, where Uesugi stole a march on Takeda due to fog.
Thanks for the free Japanese history lesson. I’m planning to move permanently to Japan within the next several years. Japan is so beautiful and full of rich history. I’m looking forward to visiting next year and seeing the historical beauty and I’d like to see the Toori gates.
Kyoto is the anagram lover's Tokyo.
I love how you compared US History with Japanese History! Your video really gave me a broader insight and gave me some information about Japan that I did not know about. Good video!
As a descendent of the Vikings, I take offence at you skipping my ancestors.
So do I.
Oh come on.. Everybody knows that you were the first to discover America. 400 years before Columbus.
It was a segue into an ad
Like Trundle said, it was a Vikings: War of Clans ad. I don't think he harbors any particular disdain for Norsemen lol.
I was so offended when he skipped lol idk why
I love this idea. We, speaking as an American, learn our own history, and then world history at separate times and in separate classes. I always felt like it was hard for me to contextualize things on a wider scale.
*Vikings discover the new world* *every reaction video to oversimplified*- "let's skip the Viking part." *Sad Viking noises.*
I loved getting insight into what was going on in Japan alongside the American revolution. Very interesting video!
For watching this reaction I learn not just the American revolution but also learn about what was happening in japan during that time
I'd like to see your impression of the American Civil War oversimplified. I am a new subscriber after seeing your reaction to the WWII oversimplified videos.
Pretty cool to see the perspective from someone from such a different part of the world, gotta say though somethings gotta be done about the background noise. I think it's not as bad in this one but still pretty noticeable.
You should watch this. It’s about the Japanese writing in 1845 about George Washington’s life th-cam.com/video/aN2I8PPgRck/w-d-xo.html
I actually like that he gives out these little facts on him his people's history it is very entertaining and I find it very cool it is very interesting
I have watched your videos a couple of times and I am from the US and I actually like all the history facts and point out I've always been somewhat of a history buff
The translators were right! The Party actually DOES refer to a party, as in a social gathering where people have fun. The British had a custom where friends would gather to drink tea and gossip. This was called a "Tea Party". The Boston Tea Party was called this as a form of sarcasm and ridicule.
It was a party, very good time.
You showed a picture of Tom Cruise from the last samurai as a samurai but it’s not totally impossible as there was a European samurai and if my memory serves me right he was called Maura Anjin. Appearently he was befriended by a samurai lord and was made a Japanese samurai, he had to be Japanese because the law was that all foreigners landing in Japan had to be immediately killed. Maura Anjin was known as the white samurai. James Clavill wrote a novel based loosely on the white samurai Gai Jin. It’s an interesting story. I love military history and Japanese history is my current target. I just finished reading Musashi! What a great story, I as an American am glad that the warship Musashi was not as perfect and successful as the man. I like the fact that you know your history, you have a subscriber from Phoenix, Arizona USA.
Oh, i love that you're telling us what was going on in Japan at this time, I've always had this weird disconnect in my world history timelines.
Want another historical disconnect, Rome (~509 BCE) was founded around 170-180 years before Alexander the Great (reigned 332-323 BCE) started his conquest. In other words Rome was founded before the Classical Period of Greece (~480-323 BCE). That one usually gets people.
I love getting his input and information along side this video.
In the West the counterpart to "Kami Kaze" would be the Latin phrase "Deus ex machina" which means "Act of God"
The fact about the gold and silver temple was really cool. They are 3rd and 4th on my list of things to visit while in Japan. Being the national history museum and another temple where 3 of the tenka-goken are being held for viewing the other 2 i don't think ill ever be lucky enough to get the honor to see.
This was an excellent video. It was really cool as an American to see what was going on in Japan when my country was fighting for independence.
Finally, a reaction that is doing a time comparison of what others were doing at the time. I hated in history class that everything felt like separate threads and it was hard to get the bigger picture that way. Love this!
It was taught & known as the "Boston Tea party" here as well but we understood it to be the act of rebellion as it was.
I think it's awesome that you compared what was happening in Japan during these times described for the US.
I know a bit of japanese history, and I know American history well, but I never thought to overlay the two. Now I want to see a flowchart showing every event in history of the world.
A gold piece to the man who invents a good word for "ugly cute".
I'm late to the party, but I have to say it's cool to hear what was happening in Japan at the same time, really puts things into context.
Henry Knox won the battle of Boston, strictly on the logistical feat of transporting heavy cannon crosscountry. The normal means at the time was by water, which the British controlled.
The Boston Tea Party is supposed to mean a literal party, not a company or group.
Japanese architecture is just so beautiful! So lovely!
The ship had a lot of wine, we didn’t dump it but took it, also because tea is associated with England, we chose to drink coffee instead.
The shot heard around the world came after the confrontation when the small group of colonists fled after exchanging fire with British. What the British did not know when chasing after them was that it was a trap. The hillside was lined with rifle men. When the British were in sight they all opened fire at once, making the illusion of one loud blast. That was the shot heard around the world
It was interesting to see what was happening at the same time. You don’t usually get that enough!
In Hebrew tea party also means party like an event not association (מסיבת התה)
Thanks for your input *rabbi*
i love the way feudal japanese ppl name stuff. tokyo is just kyoto backwards in japanese
dude I love your videos a lot, it's really interesting seeing these events from other countries perspectives, keep up the good work w the reactions!!!
I truly enjoy your channel, I appreciate the Japanese history you share during the same period of time. Thank you 😊
Very good to see the happenings of Japan in this time.
I love watching your history videos, especially the ones about modern history. Sometimes I'm reminded about things I learned before that I found interesting, and sometimes I learn something new. Would love to hear more about the post-war period in Japan.
I love the juxtaposition of Japanese history with the timeline in the video.
Thank you for bringing up the Boston tea party. Yes in American English it is pronounced the Boston tea party. As an American I always thought it was a festive party too. Thank you for putting two and two together and sayig it's a party of people; as in a group. Even from British English to American English the Boston tea party has been a head scratcher for grade school students everywhere. And I have to ask did they have fun at their Boston tea party?
Real question who else was surprised about the native American disguise? Seems extremely weird that a party of native Americans would just be strolling through Boston, board a British ship, and then through tea overboard. that sounds more suspicious, than just going in casual clothes.
Tea Party in this context is a play on words, as it was definitely a party(event) by a party(group/organization) of people
I believe we also called it the Boston tea party in my history class back in highschool
I actually learned about Ginkakuji and Kinkakuji when I was a kid, because I was reading about the inspiration behind different places in the 2nd generation of Pokemon games, and in Ekutreak city, there are the burned Brass Tower and still-standing Tin Tower, which are based upon Kinkakuji and Ginkakuji.
during the same time of the American Revloution in the 18th century my family was still living in India. in the 18th Century India was still one of the largest economy with 23% of World GDP. the East India Trading Company had conqured the Bengal Subha region. during the 7 years Wars . you also had the rise of powerfull Kingdoms such as the Maratha Empire. and the Sikh Punjabi Empire founded in the year 1799 when Ranjit Singh captured Lahore now modern day Pakistan than part of India. Charles Lord Cornwails after losing to Geroge Washington. in the American Revloution would go on to become Govener Genral of India
I like that you say what's going on with Japan at the time
As an American we also refer to it as the "Boston tea party" lol.
Very good video, I like how good you are informed about japan. It's actually very interesting to hear.
I'm actually a little shocked that the Boston Tea Party is taught in Japan. We are taught about Commodore Perry, but other than WWII, that is the only mention of Japan in American history I remember from school. I love the commentary about what was happening in Japan at the time. I recently watched the Netflix documentary about the Sengoku Jidai. It was called "Age of Samurai" if I recall correctly. I highly recommend it to any of your viewers that are interested in Japanese history.
thanks yuya for your historical information
The word “Party” in Boston Tea Party is referring to a sarcastic Party as in a celebration or a gathering to celebrate.
Really thought I would find a comment about this....but....in grade school when my class learned of the boston tea party we became quite confused as to how a war started over a party. It was not until our parents explained that it was not the fun type of party we thought it was that we understood. But, like every good american born in the early 80's we thought it was great and wish we could do it as well!
To be precise, what Japanese learn in the history class is Boston Tea Party "Incident" (ボストン茶会事件) in literal. No way to confuse with actual party.
The Boston tea party is called the Boston tea Party in English. That’s about it.
I have a pretty nice Kokeshi Doll collection also. I do displays at our local library, for the children and adults. I show how the designs change over the years. I have many hobbies, so I can appreciate the simplicity of design and artistry. I'm always looking for interesting designs, and have been creating my own Kokeshi's.
Your teacher translated “party” correctly. It was a Boston Tea Rager. Also, it’s nice to know that kamikaze means more than crashing airplanes into ships.
The “American revolution oversimplified” video is pretty accurate from what I remember from school but I would like to make the point that neither Christopher Columbus nor the Vikings discovered the Americas.
Columbus is often celebrated and even has a holiday that celebrates him in the United States. However, there were already millions of people living here in the americas who had been for hundreds of years.
In the US, a lot of people believe that Christopher Columbus should not be celebrated or given credit for traveling to the Americas. He and his crew raped, enslaved, and murdered countless native people and the Europeans continued doing that when they arrived here as well.
Now, in a number of the US states, the “Columbus Day” holiday is now being changed to “Indigenous Peoples Day” to switch to celebrating those native Americans whose land was stolen via the actions Christopher Columbus.
Yuya you are actually correct, it is party like event, may seem strange, but in the u.s. riots are also big parties 🥳
2:52 Kansai International Airport is ancient and honored building. It is the most ancient of all the airports in japan.
Japan used a LOT of guns during the sangoku jidai. During the invasion of korea about every 1 in 3 samurai had a gun. Oda nobunagas entire strategy waz to arm ashigaru in rankz with guns and have them fire in formations. His arch enemy the ikko ikki peasant/monk rebelion also used this tactic.
The Boston Tea Party is both, a group and humorously, a party.
Interesting thing about the USA is that they were the first nation found on revolution, this was soon followed by many other nations like Haiti,France, and Mexico (which is part of my heritage besides my European side), America's revolution inspired many nations to question authority of their nation and to want to achieve their own rights, I am getting more familiar with Japanese history and Japan's post-WW2 constitution matches certain things in the Declaration of Independence and the current American constitution
The Boston Tea party is a bit of an expression of American humor. It was an type of attack, so the tea leaves went into the water making an insult to the British tea, so it was ironically called "Tea Party"