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Top 10 HORRIFYING Facts You Didn’t Know About SAMURAI - DEBUNKED
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ส.ค. 2024
- As an Ortientalist I was requested by many of you to talk about this video so here I'll explain how things actually worked in Japan and try to give you the most honest and unbiased point of view possible to the matters discussed in the original video by Toptenz channel.
Samurai (侍?) were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.
In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi (武士?, [bu.ɕi]) or buke (武家?).
By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai were usually associated with a clan and their lord, and were trained as officers in military tactics and grand strategy. While the samurai numbered less than 10% of then Japan's population, their teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts.
As aristocrats for centuries, samurai developed their own cultures that influenced Japanese culture as a whole. The culture associated with the samurai such as the tea ceremony, monochrome ink painting, rock gardens and poetry were adopted by warrior patrons throughout the centuries 1200-1600. These practices were adapted from the Chinese arts.
In general, samurai, aristocrats, and priests had a very high literacy rate in kanji. Recent studies have shown that literacy in kanji among other groups in society was somewhat higher than previously understood.
Some samurai had buke bunko, or "warrior library", a personal library that held texts on strategy, the science of warfare, and other documents that would have proved useful during the warring era of feudal Japan. One such library held 20,000 volumes. The upper class had Kuge bunko, or "family libraries", that held classics, Buddhist sacred texts, family histories, as well as genealogical records.
A samurai was usually named by combining one kanji from his father or grandfather and one new kanji. Samurai normally used only a small part of their total name.
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Link to the original video by TopTenz
• Top 10 HORRIFYING Fact...
Further note: As for the mistreatment that the "brutal samurai" used to mete out on the poor puppies, here how they would have fun in France in nearly the same age.
[ In 16th-century Paris, a popular form of entertainment was cat-burning, in which a cat was hoisted in a sling on a stage and slowly lowered into a fire. According to the historian Norman Davies, “The spectators, including kings and queens, shrieked with laughter as the animals, howling with pain, were singed, roasted, and finally carbonized.”48 Also popular were dogfights, bull runs, cockfights, public executions of “criminal” animals, and bearbaiting, in which a bear would be chained to a post and dogs would tear it apart or be killed in the effort". ]
Source: Steven Pinker, "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined", pag. 123
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"What would happenj if you insulted a knight in medieval Europe. I think you see the point."
I guess the guy mocking the knight would see it too.
nah man knights were rarely nice dudes, like samurai. both were pretty sorry characters
@@DT-hb1gq thats what he basically said.
@@DT-hb1gq "The point" he is referring to would be the Knight's sword
Unless the guy had an extremely flexible neck, he wouldn't see the point sticking out from his back...
Psycho-logic ye but knights couldn’t actually point blank kill an insolent person like a samurai could
I like the bit about 'Common women have to pay to marry samurai'. Uh... you mean like a dowry? That thing that pretty much every culture has had for most of history?
Dakota Holmes I was thinking the exact same thing. Dowry existed pretty much everywhere in every culture for a ridiculously long time. Even if you were a princess and your country was richer than another nation, you paid a dowry. Example, when Catherine of Aragon was married to Arthur, son of Henry the VII, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile basically gave the English a Navy as her dowry.
don't go too far people. In my country (india) people still practice this and yes, i'm ashamed of it. I guess some of us are still stuck somewhere between 15 - 17 century AD.
Actually a dowry was paid by the woman's family, not the woman. It was more like a "Here, take this useless woman off our hands, and take this gold for your trouble" (yes I'm being hyperbolic, sue me). So not exactly the same thing.
To pay for the bride is not a dowry, it's a brideprice.
A dowry has numerous functions including the establishment of the household and even insurance against harm being brought against the bride if the laws of the country stipulate that if a wife dies soon in marriage, the dowry returns.
It can also be used to sustain the wife after the husband's death, as well as be given to her own children in inheritance.
In Ancient Sparta for example, there was an extremely wealthy upper class and very powerful group of women called the heiresses, due to the Spartan custom that a man's wealth passed to his wife when he died, not his children. She, adding this to her own legal property as well as ownership of her dowry, would then divide this equally between her sons and daughters. So then you had daughters entering marriage with a vast amount of property as well as dowry, and repeating the process a generation down.
The consequence was a very enriched class of women with massive political influence.
Dowries are largely extinct now due to the fact more women work than they did before as well as the general deconstruction of the family unit and values in many countries (I would argue this is a bad thing but others may differ), but the notion that dowries were simply the consequence of the *lack* of value placed on women in any role is very much not true and could in many ways work to the advantage of a woman. This of course is culture dependant, but even in cases of arranged marriages, brides were rarely 'sold'.
@Mr Lee Well as far as I am aware, a dower is property or wealth paid to the bride by the husband to support her upkeep in the event of his death (common if men marry later than women), whilst brideprice is paid to her family so that he is able to marry her at all.
Seppuku? Hah! Pathetic.
True samurai commit Sudoku.
Appley Animator *confused by numbers* “ARRRGH!”
Shamefur dispray
It first drove them INSANE before they took their lives, LOL!
@Jeffrey Scott seppuku is The same thing as Hari-kiri they are both accurate terms however I believe seppuku was actually the more used term
Epic meme
Seppuku wasn't that unique. Many defeated Roman generals routinely fell on their swords.
and that's the occidentalist view expressed in the vid: "to rob the enemy of the opportunity to kill u".
Falling on your sword is not the same as cutting your stomach open.
@@tiberius5245 Actually, Roman suicide sometimes did mean cutting their own stomach open. Look up how Cato the Younger killed himself: "Cato did not immediately die of the wound; but struggling, fell off the bed...his son and all his friends came into the chamber, where, seeing him lie weltering in his own blood, great part of his bowels out of his body, but himself still alive and able to look at them, they all stood in horror. The physician went to him, and would have put in his bowels, which were not pierced, and sewed up the wound; but Cato, recovering himself, and understanding the intention, thrust away the physician, plucked out his own bowels, and tearing open the wound, immediately expired."
@Jacob Locklear 99% chance of fanfic websites.
@Grant bro, don't even try...
A wife killing herself along side her husband actually sounds quite Shakespearian...
you're right
I agree. It's also similar to the practice of "sati" that once existed in India.
Jacob Furrow that it does.
@Jacob Farrow: careful dude the sjws might accuse you of patriarchy
That doesn't make it okay.
You could also compare ronin to modern veterans who have trouble reintegrating with society after living in such a violent environment for so long.
similar with rambo
not realy
Yes! The moment after watching it, i posted the link to Metatron. Someone has to debunk those weasels!
They drew first blood, not me
Similar to robber knights and/or Knight Errants
Thank you for this video. It's great to see an "extended" commentary on material that is eye-catching, but leaves a lot to be explained.
even after 3 years, i still cant find who asked for your opinion
@@kevinmorrice It was me I admit it. I asked asked him for his opinion 3 years ago. I’m so sorry.
@@kevinmorrice And I haven't find who asked yours, so what's your point?
Brah, he is just defending a culture he loves. I don't see wat this has to do with you
Kevin Morrice if only you’d of asked yourself the same question before commenting. Think I’m general, but think about being kind before you speak please.
The wife killing herself in my mind, is the same as her never “moving on” after your death. It’s the loyalty to you.
It's more tragic and immediately definite, of course, but same idea. Exact same idea as Juliet stabbing herself, come to think of it, just with less decapitation.
If you think the wives killing themselves is tragic.
You should read about the rajputs of india , I forgot the time period but it was before timur invaded india .
The rajput were somewhat similar to the japanese in ww2 where they rarely surrendered and fought till they were killed.
And when the wives heard that all the men of their family were dead , they all gathered together a set themselves on fire to stay with their husband on the other side as well.
The practice is called Jauhar .
Every body romanticizes Romeo & Juliet.........
@@House_of_Green
...gee, I wonder why people romanticise one of the worlds most popular romantic tragedies...
@@DrunkenAussie76 I certainly do. Even Shakespeare himself called out their actions as foolish. The idea of someone killing themselves after their lover died is honestly just disgusting imo. I don't care why you commit suicide, just don't.
Why is Context always ignored?
As practice for when it's time to smear Donald Trump and anyone else who's politics aren't your own.
Context killed my little brother Timmy.
Because they're not Matt Easton :)
Because they're not historians.
Damn you context, we will get revenge for Timmy just wait...
The video you responded to was like the Buzzfeed of medieval "facts".
+5Ermacs
LOL
Here's a problem with top 10s and top 20s, Why only 10 or 20? Why not 11 or 19 or 22? Why not just as many you need to mention to give the general idea, or to cover most of the popular ones in the category or just enough you can talk about in the time limit of video? I never click on these types of links, not matter how popular the channel, or good source. The nicely rounded numbers are fishy.
"It was war. People do aweful things at war."
I'm french, I've been at war. You cannot be so true.
What makes us quality humans, is to be able to grasp those facts. And act accordingly.
Grazie mille signor Metatron.
Still, comparing the atrocities of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, the USSR, or to a lesser extent Italy (not that Italy wasn't bad, but we're looking at comparisons between three of the most evil regimes in history) grossly undermines those atrocities. The reason the US felt the need to drop those atomic bombs was precisely because of the fanaticism of the Japanese army and culture, and because they gave us no indication of an easy surrender. Either way, the fire bombings of Tokyo were far deadlier, and I'm not sure why people focus on the atomic bombs.
@SHADOW PIONEER - ENT. it was a different time
@@owlblocksdavid4955 tell that to a Deontologist also the U.S didn't just use an atomic bomb on just those two cities which the majority of were filled with innocent civilians but they've been literally bombing numerous cities in Japan not just Tokyo and let's not forget that the U.S during WW2 WW2 unreasonably put all their Japanese citizens in internment camps and where they faced much discrimination and incarceration because they feared they were all spies for Japan which is obviously not true, as well as the history of U.S discrimination against Japanese since the 1800s
@@owlblocksdavid4955 Couldn't have said it better.
@SHADOW PIONEER - ENT. well if you were born back then you'd act like them too
"Germans did what they did..." thanks for your kindness :'D
@@OSRSBrachydios as Stanis la Rochelle would say
Yeah apart from the teenagers was the line that worried me.... I mean he is trying to justify what they did too children by saying oh well happens to adults too.... thats odd
What a hand wave and a half
@@DevilsAvocado69 I look at it as a way to move on from the topic, so he doesn't risk getting demonitized.
@@robertcook2112 Well put, he just didn't want to engage with that aspect of it. Coercion of children into sex happened in Europe too however, though he didn't mention that; children were routinely married to middle aged men.
Toptenz is a fucking sensationalist. His vid about vikings was terrible. Thanks for making these videos, it's truly needed.
Midevil Knights hunted not just as a means for attaining food but also they hunted as a way of training. It was common practice for Knights in training to go into the forest and premtively find wild animals to kill in order to physically and psychologically train themselves
Knights killed more animals. Better for the Samurais that only killed dogs
The real difference is the weapon used for that training.
It makes more sense to have a spear for a boar, and a nimble dog for bows.
*Medieval
Knyght Errant made a very good video on this topic!
***** Seems too depend on the animal, I imagine most game would be hunted with bows or crossbows, though some animals like boars seem to been hunted predominantly with speer and hounds. And on the topic of tactics in regards to men-at-arms(I.e. knights) their tactics changed over time and according to the situation. Take for example the English during the Hundred Years War, who fought predominantly fought on foot in contrast with their peers. However after grand victories such as Crecy the trend seems to have caught on the rest of western Europe and was quite popular until the renaissance. However some knights also fought on foot as a necessity as a consequence of their native terrain, for example Norway or Scotland.
I fell in love with the romanticised version of Japan's feudal as a kid. Most people I run into get their notions from anime and manga. But the real history is much more interesting. It's good to see someone confronting largely Western held beliefs and ideals of the Edo and the Sengoku Jidai periods. I would love to see more on the end of the Jomon into the yayoi.
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love how you break things down and explain things and why. Keep up the good work.
Whataboutism, and appealing to cultural sympathy/empathy/understanding to defend obnoxious cultural practices are not even arguments man, they are justifications.
The video was informative yes, but poorly argumented.
@@goprev9715 okay boomer
@@goprev9715 You are obsolutely wrong.
There's a difference between killing an animal for sport and for food. You should compare killing an animal for sport with killing another animal for sport, and killing an animal for food with killing another animal for food.
But yeah it is hypocritical because even today we kill animals for sport here in the west. From foxes and ducks to lions and elephants in the savvanah or bulls in the arenas and so on and so forth.
Judging Samurai for shooting arrows at dogs a few centuries ago is hypocritical.
I always love how they say dogs because they're mans best friends. You know, not like they totally never competed in hunting birds or boars or other creatures.
I'm a hunter, in the west, but I do not kill animals for sport. I find it to be barbaric.
I agree with you, that there is a difference between killing animal for Sport and for food. But what Metatron points out is not just the western Tradition of killing for food. He also mentiones Foxhunting, what ist in fact just killing animals for pure fun. If we talk about Hunting, in my opinion, there is also, if we do it really for food or for fun and Sport. And most of the Nobility of the Western world saw it as a Sport. (That does not mean, that i oppose killiing animals for food. I really love meat an see it as part of our culture.) At a last point, I think, we should not forget the reason of Training. One may discuss, if this is moral or not, but in any case, i think, there is a Difference between killing animals for fun or to improve you arching skills.
So it's somehow hypocritical to call out another culture for doing something other people do in the West that we also find disgusting? Sure, makes perfect sense.
Bini Farmer Someone who is OK with killing foxes for sport, would be a hypocrite if he judged the japanese for shooting arrows into dogs for sport.
If you find both of these wrong then you're not a hypocrite, but I'm talking about the west in general. We (the west) do hunt animals for sport to this day, so it's down to the individual to place judgement.
It's funny-every one of these horrifying facts is also true for a European culture from the same period.
They never said they weren't.
Killing innocents is still wrong. Committing suicide is still wrong.
@@owlblocksdavid4955 Well, Suicide isn't necessarily wrong. But yeah, killing innocents certainly is.
And of course the Romans were all about suicide for honor. Same with their contemporaries: Boudica, Cleopatra, Hannibal, Mithradates; they killed themselves rather than be publically humiliated.
@@Tareltonlives Well Mithradates ordered a friend to kill him during a rebellion of his army when the situation looked hopeless to him. I would not say that this was "suicide for honor" or comparable to the seppuku.
Yeah, I always was kind of confused with how Ronin could be so disgraced when Miyamoto Musashi was a Ronin _himself._ Yet, Musashi is often regarded as the pinnacle of what a Samurai was.
I think the point is that it was not desirable to be a Ronin, but misfortune could happen to anyone despite themselves and a Ronin could still become a Samurai again and find a master later. I think it's also the case that Musashi became highly regarded as a Samurai by *some* people after his death. During his lifetime he was highly regarded as a swordsman but not as a pattern of what a Samurai was. I know you wrote this 2 years ago, I am just looking at comments and felt moved to respond.
I think the misconception comes from a mix of facts cherry picked left and right. Kabukimono were essentially ronin, Akechi Mitsuhide was a ronin before serving Oda Nobunaga and ultimately betray him, stuff like that. Many ronin did end up getting caught for petty crimes while trying to barely survive. Stuff like that.
Plus there's the whole honor point, samurai means something along the lines of "one who serves," the idea of dying in service of a lord was far more respected than dying independent. The idea that you could fight for the Hojo one day and the Satake the next might sound ludicrous to a samurai from either side. That's not to say defections never happened, they did when the tides of war did.
There's often hypocrisy in those honor-based system, but then again it's hard to judge fairly from the outside.
Misrepresentation of the ninja is also exceedingly common among pop culture
Ikr. Ninjas actually didn't carry shurikens because it would rattle and if you dropped them that'd be hard to explain.They were more for stealth and being a messenger. Not for combat.
Nicholas Jonas also for gathering intel
@@donovanmcfay9831 yeah that too
@@nicholasjonas2505 They were basically the equivalent of today's spies.
I guess you could say this list was a shamefur dispray.
I am ready for seppuku now.
A SHAMEFUR DISPURRAYYYY
My lord ! Our allies have fled the battlefierd !
OUR MEN ARE RUNNING FROM THE BATTLEFIELD! A SHAMEFUR DISPRAY!
Dude speaks like 6 languages, you are a troll
+Bob Bigall no shit
It's sad how many people fell into the lies of that video. I'm glad I unsubscribe from that channel.
^ Lmao this guy guy thinks he's funny. You played yourself.
Your video took everything out of context toptenz. The fact that you have paid so much attention to this video and even to random people here shows that you know it too and are insecure.
This video just didn't "add more information", metatron added the actual context to it like you should've done in the first place.
When you leave out the context it makes all of these things seem like they were practiced among most of the samurai. And then you even say things like "and for some reason people are obsessed with japan" which just shows your true charlatan intention for the video.
You don't have any more integrity just because you're pretending that showing up here actually makes a difference.
Congrats on completely misrepresenting an amazing Warrior Culture just for views because you did that well.
+TopTenz time to get a new handler for that account. Maybe someone with more tact and a better grasp of the English language.
um actually...the guy debunked like 3 or 4 facts only. the rest of the points was just his personal opinion and further explanation, he couldn't debunk the fact itself.
It's not about you vs. the Metatron lol it's about the generalizations you presented as facts in this one specific video you made
I just read "The 47 Ronin Story" by John Allyn and found your video very much in line with Allyn's descriptions of samurai. The book even mentions a FEW ronin did turn criminal but most did not. Glad I saw your video since the Top Tenz one depressed me a bit after I finished such an inspiring book.
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It's at the point I think you and Simon Wistler should box, Italy Vs England, Facts vs Bullshit, Long hair Vs Bald!!! :) Lol
have you made a video about the last samurai? I'd love to hear your thoughts on the movie
Me too
hm I don't rememver if he refereed to the movie as whole, but he usually mention on it on his videos about japan, for example, the fact that the "samurai don't use guns cause of honor" part is bullshit.
Yes please! I loved the movie and I've heard cultural criticism against it. I'd like to know your insights on the movie.
True, the Samurais had been using guns and artillery for 300 years before the movie's timeline. I would suggest the review of HistoryBuffs, so many things you can learn from that guy :D
+AT-TE CloneTrooper you're here to huh that's funny lol
After watching the video, I am informed. After reading the comments, I am confused...
Lol, same here. I liked Top Tenz new Samurai video. Then click on this video and I don't really know what the heck is going on.
nights1515 XD i'm mainly confused as to why people are so mad
A lot of contrarian alt-righters in the comments.
assassintwinat8 Hahahaha!
Googelplus Sucksys Yeah those alt righters ruining everything you do realise that alt right is a label put on ones self
2:05 Look! Even in the drawing Simon uses there's a marking around the victim's neck, clearly implying they'll cut off the head first.
"The Japanese did some really bad things."
China, Korea, Inner Mongolia and Hong Kong: "Please, tell me more."
ask spanish ,american and british all did at some point
@@tarlison2k1 as did china korea mongolia etc.
@@slamdancer1720 in war it's normal
I think this was mostly an apologetic video and not so much a debunking one
How?
+Bruce Jedi Lee Well, when you point out for example that yes this thing happened but we have to see it in prespective (which i agree with) it isnt debunking. its apologetic in the sence that metatron puts it in context not proving it isnt true. I dont disagree with what he said by the way
ShaNagmaImmuru Well he also pointed out that almost everything he said was also grossly exaggerated or was only done by either a small group of Samurai or only durring a specific time period
It's a debunking of the cherry-picking in the original.
You're right.
You like cats better than dogs? Unsubscribed jkjk.
Yes, they taste better.
Yes, they taste better.
... Thats fuckin racist.
+Linkxsc I assume you are talking about the guy who replyed comparing cats with a derogatory term?
Jimmie Smith
Yeah. The guy who deleted his comment.
The ronin thing is particularly bizarre to me. Samurai became ronin for a variety of reasons. Some went on pilgrimages to hone their skill. Some became mercenaries. Others became body guards. To say that they were all criminals or refused to work is simply wrong. In fact, some ronin actually put away their swords and took up other skills such as farming or merchant.
If I had a choice in the method of my execution...I'd choose decapitation by a skilled swordsman over electric chair or firing squad any day. My first choice would be old age of course.
Hey Mr. Metatron. Love your Stuff. I'm gonna be nitpicky myself... the worst thing the Japanese did in WW2 was not attacking Pearl Harbour...
15:33 *CURRENT YEAR!*
Really? In [THE CURRENT YEAR]!?
I mean *COME ON!*
I thought you were better than this Metatron.
Here we go again...
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You brought this upon yourself.
Wut???
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+Incubator QB hi evil cousin
Noobafet no
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So you didn’t debunk it, you basically just said it’s all true but it’s absolutely fine and it shouldn’t be an issue.
Way to not watch the video
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"Yeah the samurai did do that... but what about"
Dude, I like your channel, but you didn't debunk a single thing, this entire video is just one giant whataboutism.
I'm afraid you didn't catch the meaning of this video that much.
Did you perhaps not watch the entire video?
He did debunk most of the things in the list, what you may have missed is the fact that TopTenzNet has clearly put low effort on his video and is shining light on some things that mostly were a rare thing while trying to criticize them as if the entirety of japan was at fault, not only that but also using the morality we have today towards a culture he does not and refuse to understand.
Metatron did an amazing job at pushing aside the stupid criticism, although i agree that some had a, like you called them, "whataboutism" into them but the point is that every culture in the world had a similar, if not the same thing, they pointed against old Japanese culture. So it's quite pointless to try singling japan while the rest of the world was by any means better.
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i liked most of the upload but not the debunking point 3, you didn't deny this happened, so the fact that it happened to adults too don't mean you ignore the child victims and focus on the adult's by calling it homophobic but not paedophilia
I'm with you on this one. I felt that metatron didn't do a good job on that point.
Am I wrong but it seems to me that TopTenz got all of their information from movies and anime.
ps. Here are 10 reasons why I don't watch TopTenz, Watchmojo or other that kind of channels. I feel slightly bad that 'block youtuber' script don't work any more and I haven't found replacement.
koljkimm thoes channels are clearly SJW pandering machines
11:56 "and war... war never changes" -Fallout series
it never changes because it's a descriptive term, used to describe something that will always be inherent in human nature. That 2 opposing forces must clash and one must consume the other. Sad but true.
@@RakinkyOG thanks captain obvious
@@RakinkyOG r/woooosh
“The war has changed”
@@thazmat Thing is, statements like "War never changes" sound profound because they resonate with something people believe. Lots of people *do* think war never changes, along with everything else in the world...and hence that nothing *can* change, so why bother trying to stop abuses of power or whatever? War never changes, the more things change the more they stay the same, it'll happen no matter what you do to stop it.
Except it *can* be changed if people *bother.*
The point you say about them saying being gay isn't okay is definitely not what they were saying.
Lies are bad. Conveniently incomplete truths are even worse. The former was used more to cover ignorance and mostly easy to discover, while the latter was frequently utilized to support agendas, and sadly more convincing as well.
The use of atom bombs in war is not dishonorable. It is terrible, but not necessarily wrong.
What's the difference between terrible and wrong?
mustarastas88 It's terrible to get heart surgery. It's terrible to kill an intruder at night. It's terrible to sit in a prison cell all day long. None of these things are inherently wrong. Sometimes they are, but not always.
Replay Bro By what moral standard?
Replay Bro Nm. I'm tired. You must be joking.
Levi Paladin I don't think that heart surgery is terrible. But sure, that's personal opinion.
What's the intruder thing supposed mean? Home invasion and self defense? At least here that's illegal. Not that it's an actual, common problem here.
" 10 facts videos about this and that " are generally a huge, steamy, pile of BS.
I watched a documentary and it said, "they sometimes tested the sharpness of their blades on people, but the Japanese found it distasteful and found better ways of doing so."
A history documentary..... or some random top 10s video dude on the internet. I wonder which is a better source for real historical facts.
This is why i like to research subjects Myself. Unfortunately finding a Source that is Correct gets harder with the internet because False information travles Faster than the truth and some people think just because they seen it on Tv or Read it on some random site online that it is Factual
While I think that you might misinterpret some of their motivations in one or two cases, I am as bothered as you were by people who judge the past or cultures of the past from today's perspective. It is such a stupid thing to do. Nothing is easier than that. I recently came across an article in the Guardian from 2009 which called Shakespeare problematic because of how women are portrayed in his plays. Sometimes I get the feeling that these people must believe themselves to be the heroes of humanity for criticising the past, not realizing that they would have been like those people in the past and that they would done the exact same things under those circumstances.
Well time to block "TopTenz" from my youtube feed
@Johnson Adam more Simon for the rest of us
You didn’t and you still haven’t.
@@MarielaQue Enjoy the half truths he serves for your entertainment then.
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15:00 I think you're just being flat out dishonest here. Homosexual relationships between Samurai teacher and student (wakashūdo) were explicitly supposed to be between an adolescent boy (wakashū) and an adult man (nenja), and any sexual conduct between the two was supposed to end as soon as the boy reached adulthood. Indeed, adult men were not supposed to have sex with each other (of course that happened, but that was against the norms).
Wakashūdo was explicitly about sex between a young boy and an adult man (a man in a position of authority no less), and by today's standards it's abhorrent, it would definitely be considered statutory rape today, and pointing this out has nothing to do with ridiculing homosexuals
No shot this moron just threw some wild accusation at a five year old video with no evidence 🤣🤣🤣
I don’t think it’s fair to say it’s racist to condemn the Samurai code of conduct. Samurais were a small subset of Japan. I’m sure there were lots of peasants who hated the Samurai for their culture of dehumanization and disregard for life, the romanticization of which led to atrocities in WWII. Similarly it’s not racist to condemn European feudal serfdom for its exploitative practices which ultimately led to New World slavery.
I think we can all agree these practices are best not romanticzed and left in the past. Our values today are different not because morality changed like fashion but because we humans have worked hard to become more enlightened.
A very good video, and I must say, I had almost exactly the same reaction to some of the points as you did, and I know very little about oriental history, and so don't really understand the majority of cultural taboos and requirements that occurred. The point about dogs though, I genuinely paused the video for a moment to have my own little rant, about how they would hunt dogs for sport. My response was something along the lines of: "What? In Europe people would hunt foxes for sport, and some still do today? So what's so different about hunting dogs? Cuteness factor?!? Bullcrap. Utter bullcrap." And so, when I unpaused the video after a moment, I was both mildly shocked and quite pleased to see that you had exactly the same counter-example as I did. It's great to see someone put actual reason, evidence, and an unbiased viewpoint to use, debunking videos like this, and like you said at the start, trying to educate people who may have been formerly misled by videos such as the one debunked. Good work Metatron, keep up the great videos!
Thank you very much for your kind words ^^
Thank you very much for responding, I really enjoy your videos, they're quite a nice change from the majority of stuff online. People like you, Shad, and demomanchaos all make fascinating videos that are always entertaining to watch.
Tiche CoMC I'm glad you think so and thank you for watching and commenting ^^
Dogs are loyal beings that evolved alongside us. Killing them for sport is, well, not only wasteful but inefficient. Foxes aren't domestic and they often cause damage to livestock and/or goods.
To me, it seems that it takes a particularly savage person to kill an animal that isn't harmful to you, or if it isn't a food source.
As I have stated before in comments, thank you for breaking up these false truths and false realities. Keep up your great work Metatron.
"Germans doing their thing" I died when I heard that.
To be fair there is a difference between killing a prey animal for food (preferably in a humane manner such as a bolt to the head), to chasing down a dogs (a species we have co-evolved with for around 40'000 years) and shooting them with arrows for sport. That is causing suffering for the purpose of sport, I consider this to be much worse than farming or hunting for food, the same way I would critisise dog fighting and bull fighting.
I love it when you start debunking by "well, they actually did this but [..]so did e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e else around the world" if you could only imagine that most people do get the idea: NOT ALL SAMURAY DID THAT!" without YOU teliing us so.. I was expecting you to PROVE sth wasn't right in the original material but nope, no such case here
Informative video but in TopTenz defense, I think you are mistaking 'debunking' with 'nuancing'. You did not debunk these claims, rather you nuanced them. Debunking involves showing the falseness of claims - which you do not - nuancing involves showing subtle differences in meaning or alternative perspectives to claims - which you do.
Interesting that he chose Pearl Harbor as the example of atrocities committed during WWII on Japan‘s part, not China.
Maybe because it's the most prominent one, the one that everybody and their mother know about lol not everybody knows what happened in China but everyone knows what you mean when you talk about pearl harbour
Lusor Jango Fett HFH obviously there is an alternative explanation, I‘m just pointing out that it‘s very suspicious given japanese mentality basically throughout all of history.
He actually answered this question in a comment. He chose Peral Harbor because its what people know about. Bringing up Nanjing, and having to explain it, would have made the video longer. And probably would have changed the whole tone.
Great video! The only problem for me is defending imperial japan. (Or at least it sounds like it)
Imperial Japanese did so many terrible things that fighting to the last man, suicide plane crashes, and attack at pearl harbor without a declaration of war should not go even top 10.
No, he isn't defending Imperial Japan. But the fact that everyone did shit on WWII was his point. Hell such as the Laconia Incident and American Fire Bombings on literal civilian cities(aside from the fact that inaccuracy from pilots was too common at that time). Sure thing we can blame everyone for their war crimes, but saying one is defending a certain country for a cultural concept that no longer existed in Imperial Japan(said Bushido was no longer a thing at that time and was just a template for a different code of honor, just like Chivalry).
@@ousamadearudesuwa Yes but when one country is estimated to have killed more innocent civilians than Nazi Germany...
"I do prefer cats" - nice.
But seriously now, I wouldn't watch toptez anymore, all the information is indeed taken out of context and so distorted.
Just subscribed to your channel (coming here from Shadversity) and your medieval Japan focus piqued my interest. Thank you for making this video specifically, because a lot of the misconceptions you call out the Top Tenz video on are still perpetuated today, and they shine a bad light upon samurai, much worse than a realistic perspective warrants.
I am a HUGE fan of your channel, and am often very pleased to find that when you either debunk or introduce a subject that I previously believed to be true and independently research said subject, I find that I was wrong and have subsequently been corrected and changed my mind. To the degree of the preponderance of evidence presented, of course. I would absolutely love to see you do a video on ancient/Medieval shock troops and special forces akin to today's SAS and SEALs. There are so many videos out there with contradictory information and I'm sure the truth is probably hidden in there somewhere. As I believe your team is as reliable, unbiased, and rigorous as it gets on TH-cam I am hoping you will entertain my suggestion. Either way, keep the videos coming, your channel is an EXCELLENT source of not only information, but of also dispelling false information.
We used to hang, draw and quarter someone. The person was hanged until unconscious. They were revived, their abdomen slit open, disembowled , and their guts were burned before their own eyes. Sometimes the person was castrated. Then the person would be be-headed and quartered. Sometimes a person was broken on the wheel, where their bones were all ( every bone) broken one by one. SO we in the west, have no room to post the finger at the behavior of others
He wasn't pointing fingers, he was doing a top 10 on historical facts that most people wouldn't know. The fact that you consider that to be "finger pointing" shows how childish your reasoning is, not his.
I love most of your videos but here you seem to criticize a video that focuses on the worst aspects of an ancient class.... for only pointing out the worst aspects of an ancient class. Slightly befuddling.
Edited to be fair the number one point on their list didn't actually relate to samurai so that criticism is more fair.
worst aspects that are.not only cherrypicked but mixes in fact to fiction.
I agree, and it is simply Whataboutism to defend a cultural practice by saying others did it too
While I like the information you provided in this video, calling the man racist and homophobic was completely unnecessary. What most people forget is that these things are based on the person's intent, is it based on the person/group race or sexual preference. In this case, I don't feel it was.
He wasn't targeting them based on their race or sexual preference but because from his perspective,
a) this happened in this place with this culture (race doesn't equal culture)
b) a mentor is taking advantage of his position of power over a minor to have a sexual relationship
Mind you this is all being looked at with a modern-day lense with modern standards (something I don't agree with).
2:10 iirc they also did this sometimes when they didn't have tameshigiri, with limbs and stuff stuck up on things such as the tameshigiri would be. If you even GOOGLE tameshigiri and read up on it, this being done on criminals that were alive was "occasional", meaning not a frequent thing. I completely agree with your statement on it being capital punishment as well, as it definitely was back then. I can't stand videos like that where they are trying to tell people about "HISTORY" and are being all like, " hey get smart off this shit buddy XD!!! " and then proceed to just spew a bunch of horseshit botched information.
These people are just trying to make money off of gullible idiots who think that everyone on youtube is telling them correct information when they have the ability to just google what people are talking about while the video is paused and research whether what they're saying is true or not.
Another good video Metatron.
Hindi women in India were supposed to jump on the funeral pyre or be buried alive with their dead husbands in India until at least the 1800’s when it was outlawed and it was still happening occasionally up until the 1980’s when they criminalized it. So while barbaric the Japanese custom wasn’t the worst and it wasn’t unique.
Love the way you clarify the facts! I have Samurai blood dating back from the 17th century. Never knew all of the real and not because my Japanese great-grandparents moved here to Hawaii in the 1900's, and pop culture fuels the minds of many.
I love how you debunked this shameful display of the Samurai. All these things he find so shocking is done all over the world at some point in history..
Who sacrifices lambs still?
It's been several years...but I sacrificed two lambs and consecrated them to the nutrition of my family. Yes, I slit their throats and apologized and thanked them. :) Those 4H lambs were good eating.
Its quite common in middle eastern societies to slaughter a sheep on weddings and such occasions, as a carnivore I don’t feel I can be judging them for that if they do it in a none sadistic way
Abrahamic religions
You... don’t..?
Not a ceremonial sacrifice, but Greeks traditionally eat lamb on Easter Sunday. (Not that we don't eat lamb year round, but that one day holds special significance because of Christianity.)
15:40 I think what they might have been implying is that the trainer could use his senior position to coerce the apprentice into sexual relations, which wouldn't be properly consensual.
I'm surprised you didn't mentioned the invasion of China when you talked about bad things the Japanese did in World War II.
Japan had been occupying parts of China bevor the 2.WW even started. Look up the first und second Sino-Japanese War.
They occupied Manchuria, but they invaded the rest of China later.
yea I know that seems like any easy one
+Miracle Yang World War 2 started when Japan invaded china... They just call it the sino japanese war to describe the theatre, just like the german-polish war, was also part of WW2.
+Frinkles Kai Nope. It started when Germany invaded Poland,
You kind of contradict one of your own points when you bring up that the Samurais stopped killing dogs because of pressure from monks and they realized how wrong it was, meaning it was bad for their karma. Breeding a domesticated animal to put it in a closed area and chase it down with a horse and bow to kill it, is not nearly the same thing as hunting a wild animal that destroys livestock and farms.
Private hunt was spread worldwide till 1700/1800. Every noble had a private area where he could hunt his captivated animals, they could be domesticated or wild animals caged and released for the hunt 🤔
''They killed lots of dogs''
American colonists when they saw the bison:
''I'm about to do what's called a samurai move''
The point of the "having sex with teenagers" part wasn't about making fun of "their sexuality", it mean't that they rapped teenage boys. Which essentially they did, much like in ancient Greece.
*going to the video source*
*leave a dislike*
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No such thing as opinions when it comes to History. Truth destroys all lies and opinions. Your video spreads misinformation, and Metatron debunked it. That's all there is to it. I have no reason to go to your video after watching Metatron debunking it.
no need to view XD already watched here. but still I assume its also count on yer view. yer welcome ^_^ but to think that you would actually reply to this simple comment on another guy's video which amazed me XD you'll make a great customer service
welp, sure mate. I'd love to see opinion from both perspective. even though I'm a bit on the subjective side. :D
@Top Tenz I do subscribe to your channel and enjoy your videos but Metatron is right in this one (and probably some of your other videos) - You generalize.
It's like saying "African American kids in Los Angeles are Gangsters" (there are, for sure, but not all, and definitely not most)
or "Cops kill innocent people"
(There are documented cases of that happening but again rare, and definitely not the norm)
or "TH-camrs have shaved heads and wear glasses"
nice, :D gonna watch it ASAP XD
I am an Indian and absolutely love your Channel from now because Simon had changed my opinion about Samurai for bad now you have fixed it...now I hate Simon...the lies these people spew over the internet...Simon's words were hurting me...thank u Metatron.
❤❤❤❤Japan and Samurai ❤❤❤
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there are 3 cats going around as samurai delivering pizza
Regarding number 8th:
That might have not been the case in mainland Japan, but I am aware that in Hokkaido, Samurai murdered Ainu people for anything they considered as an insult or simply just because they regarded the ainu as inferior. There are written accounts about Ainu communities being forced to smear their faces on the ground like animals in the presence of a passing samurai, and if they fell to do so, they faced immediate beheading.
the japanese goverment during ww2 killed millions of ppl in horrofying experiments
but that had nothing to do with the common soldier or samurai
The common soldier did have a lot to do with the rape of Nanjing, though. Yes, the officers should have been better, and also would have helped keep the soldiers restrained. Yes, not all soldiers. But Nanjing puts to shame many other atrocities at the time. And it involved the commoners.
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The population on Najink was 200,000 yet its claimed 300,000 were killed. The evidence is largely done to western reporters desperate for stories being told horror stories by Chinese communists and anti Japanese groups, the US embassy reported that people would run into media report offices and claim Japanese soldiers were raping and killing, some journalists went with the police (often Japanese military occupiers) to investigate and found nothing. But that didn’t stop journalists immediately reporting ‘rapes’ and ‘killings’ and feeding them back to America as propaganda.
Now obviously there were killings and atrocities, but it’s extremely debatable as to the scale and what actually happened. It’s almost a certainty that the official story is bullshit and largely exaggerated.
lol common soldier do that
Ciao! Sono felice di aver trovato il tuo canale perchè fai video molto interessanti!
ps. hai un gran bell'accento inglese :D
keep forgetting italians use ciao for 'hello' as well. We use "tchau" in portuguese as a way to say goodbye. It gave me impression you were saying like "bye" and leaving the channel somehow. Love cultural exchance.
So, buddhist monks who had the same cultural background as the Samurai, put pressure on them for killing dogs for fun. That would mean that it was a bad thing to do by their own cultural standards. Now why can't we simply agree with these monks and say so too? The question is not whether anyone can kill an animal for its meat or to prevent the spreading of diseases or simply to get rid of a competitor for food, but killing that animal for fun. Doing so shows a high degree of cruelty and as an ethnologist, I would not know of any culture that considers such things as a virtue. Yes, Asian cultures are sometimes difficult to understand for Westerners and I'm asking myself if Samurai culture deserves being labelled as a "culture" at all. General values do exist and the fact that Europeans and others have violated them too doesn't make the violations more acceptable.
As for the homosexual contract, nobody ridiculed homosexuality, but the contract itself and the fact that obviously those boys had to agree in order to become a Samurai.
I think modern Westeners have got another problem. After centuries of white supremacy thinking we tend now to accept simply everything as long as it is exotic even if we would punish or at least critisize the same behavior in our own culture. Only because something happens or happened somewhere far away, doesn't make it any better.
By having your house "abolished" it means down the memory hole it goes.
During World War 2, before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Yamamoto specifically ordered for the declaration of war to be sent before the attack started. (6 hours before, if I recall correct). I am not sure if I am correct on this part, but supposedly the Japanese embassy in the united states back then had trouble decoding and translating the message before they could send it to the americans. (Yamamoto also specified to only attack militairy targets and avoid civilian targets.)
also, everyone did terrible things in world war 2, you named the atom bombs for the united states... but what is often overlooked is the fire bombing of Tokyo, causing between 75.000 and 200.000 deaths. also, why did the americans drop the 2nd atomic bomb? because they could, not because they had to.
Instead of teaching them one lesson, we taught them multiple ones. That's why they are doing so good now. We razed it down... then we built it better.
although I would agree that the second bomb probably wasn't needed, that was for muscle flexing against the soviets than anything else. the first bomb saved a lot of lives. firebombing caused horrendous amounts of death and destruction, and given how Japan held on to her other islands and how she planned to hold on to the home islands, an invasion was off the books, only leaving starving the population out. a slow, painful and life-costly way to force a surrender
What is often overlooked is that Japanese imperialists murdered approximately 30 000 000 Chinese, that rate is even greater than the German nazi's rate of murdering Soviet people, which is 28 000 000 dead.Also, bombing Japan's main goal was to flex muscles against the USSR and to force the emperor to surrender to the US instead of surrendering to the Soviets (the USSR's already defeated the Japanese 1-million Kwantung army, but their government still didn't want to give up). The US needed to strike Japan with a serious shocking event to make them surrender. By the way, Nagasaki was a peaceful city without any presence of major military infrastructure or huge garrisons.
+Christopher Winne but was it necessary ?was it worth all the deaths on either side by bombing them not once but twice in a city filled with civilians? not like the army base they attacked don't get me wrong Pearl Harbor was terrible but two wrongs don't make a right
+Daniil Sterh I understand war is war and Japan didn't do great things either but we killed mostly civilians in the atomic bombs not to mention if they wouldn't have given up no matter what then they would have kept fighting after the bombs it's not like the Japanese where wiped out and honestly it just seemed more like a fear thug tactic then a ligament thing to do. But then again things in war are usually n ever black and white. Theirs usually no perfect "hero" or complete evil "bad guy". And also war and morality usually and sadly don't mix.a fact that let to many regrets and even more dead thorough out history
Okay, I disagree with the original TopTenz video, but I also think that some of the justifications you gave are just cheap excuses because you want to defend a culture you like.
1) Even after your explanation being able to legally kill someone who insults you is open to gross abuse, all you need to do is get your servant to say whoever insulted you and you have a licence to kill them. And we would condemn western knights for killing people that insulted them too, so you can't use the excuse of "Oh, well they did it so that makes it okay..."
2) Firstly a culture that humiliates people who loose enough to get them to kill themselves should be frankly be shamed in its self. Besides being basically bullying, its straight up vanity.
3) Saying "using the chivalric code to increase the moral of their troops" is in no way the same as using an ancient code to push someone to commit suicide. And frankly calling the comparison racist is just obtuse!
4) Because we're condemning killing or injuring animals for sport, fox-hunting was banned in the uk, so it's not 1 rule for the west and one for the east, we would condemn it regardless of where it happens, and it is not the same as killing animals for food.
Yes, thank you, he seemed overly defensive in this video, using whataboutism to justify it's position instead of criticizing the thing altogether.
Strawman arguments, when he claimed that a judgement of value was made when in fact the information was presented in a factual way not in a judgemental one (even though it was without context and superficial presentation I'll give him that).
And some weird justification of acts throught understanding, empathy or sympathy towards the overall culture.
As if saying by analogy "oh but if you look through ISIS eyes and their culture, blowing themselves up in public places to maximize civilian casualties actually makes sense to them so it isn't that crazy"
You can perfectly understand where someone is coming from and still condemn their act, it has nothing to do with discrimination of any sort.
There is a big difference between understanding the chaining of events that led to an act and condoning the act itself.
And even though we are all culturally biased, it is almost impossible to get rid of that bias entirely and well you have to draw a line somewhere, even if it means that you are confirming your cultural bias.
Otherwize you open the door to a general form of unhealty skepticism and overall nihilism which if brought to every aspect of existence, you end up concluding that no culture of any kind has any universal validity whatsoever.
So fuck any value system that everyone has right? I mean they all come from cultures sooo...
Sight, anyway, poor argumentation from Metatron in this one.
Informative, sure, but poor arguments.
This might be in my "top 10 most intriguingly frustrating comments."
I'm not going to go out of my way to engage you, but if you would like me to point out everything "questionable" about what you've provided here--in a relatively respectful manner-- (I didn't know that --the comment got formatted like this-- I actually meant what i said) feel free to let me know.
Thank you for both your academic and philosophical views. I searched for dai + katana and found your channel only to realize that about 2 years ago, wanting to know more about Latin, I visited you once.
Nice to know that it has grown to a massive community. Thanks again for all your efforts!!
13:15 Oh, it's not only the fox hunt! Let's add a few more gross blood sports, like: fox tossing, bear baiting, goose pulling, animal vs animal blood sports (dog - bear, dog - lion, etc)
Well, of course it's not just an English thing. Historically speaking, people all around the world have committed bad things and were cruel to each other and to animals as well
100% agree with the weird homophobia in that video, also. Like anyone want to point out that teenage girls were raped all the damn time in medieval societies? And we're supposed to be terrified some dudes are gay...
point them out then moron
*whoosh*
Actually, TopTenz do point out that girls were raped all the time by Knights, in their similar video about Knights.
And as to the homophobia part, sort of. Yeah they got weird about it, but they were talking about what was essentially teenage boys being sexually used by their teachers.
A source? History? lol. Nothing made up about rape. It's been happening since we were still in caves.
It was a product of the time and typical. There's no rhetoric necessary.
+Inbound I didn't realize you were unable to use Google. but that would piss on your confirmation bias. you are the one who asked for info. look for it.
I love debunking videos :)
Also, I love your shirt in this video. :D
ahahah :D
just saying metatron, if you dig into WW2 atrocities, Japan did some of the most fucked up things of anyone in the war to the point where, and I'm being objectively serious, getting nuked is a nicer death than some of those people were given. Was every side doing awful things? Yes, but even then you have to acknowledge what Japan did in china was so horrendous that we really don't have words to describe how awful they were, and the fact that class A japanese war criminals got off the hook is somehow even worse.
In response to the Atom Bomb, it was the lesser of two evils. If we had invaded the main land, the casualties would have been horrific in comparison. We had no other way of ending the war.
I appreciate you calling out Simon's moral superiority complex, as well as his blatant lies and those of omission. I've seen his content before and enjoyed SOME of it but damn this dude really takes liberties. I assume it's for shock factor and maybe he doesn't even believe the crap he spews. Overall you did well and continue to do so. I know I'm late for this party but ya
This was the most biased video I’ve ever seen!
Metatron, I have discovered what seems to be a confusing dichotomy regarding Japan. I have read historical accounts of events like the Nanking Massacre and the events surrounding kidnapped Comfort Women. Many sources I have read have stated the Japanese never speak of these events and all Japanese people claim they never occurred. These kinds of things paint the people of Japan in a very poor light (to say the least), however at my job, I interract with many Japanese people and I have found through my own interactions that they are some of the most polite and nice Human beings I have ever met. I am confused and I was hoping that somebody who has experienced the culture and society would be able to provide some feedback and help to relieve some of my confusion.
Signed,
Dan Pering
"People do awful things in war." People always forget that. As an american, it turned my stomach to learn that US soldiers took parts of dead Japanese soldiers as souvenirs from battle.
Really?
I would say this guy is misinformed, I wouldn’t pull the race card out on him. It has no basis. Love your videos btw
The line between racism and ignorance does not exist, because of the symbiotic relationship between the two. Racism cannot exist without ignorance, and that ignorance is hard to maintain without racism. Not necessarily KKK levels of racism, but it doesn't stop being racist just because it's subtle and accidental.
@@timothymclean holy shit you're right. ( not in a sarcastic way of course)
@@timothymclean true. You can say the same thing about evil cultural practices, like ritual suicide. Yes. Other cultures did it. They were also wrong to do it.
@Grant Yeah it was obvious bait
Thank you for reminding me to respect other cultures & try to understand before criticizing from my moral high horse.
Seems simple, but it's easy to forget sometimes.
I disagree. While judging individuals should be done in context, I think it's important to judge cultures themselves. We don't want to dismiss the evils of the slave culture of the antebellum south, the anti semitic culture of early 20th century Germany, etc. Recognize that there were good parts of each culture, sure. But cultures can be more moral than others.
on #3 you sort of missed the point that the power dynamic between student/teacher makes the relationship sexually abusive and coercive, which makes any "consent" illegitimate.. its not gay bashing
Thank you so much for this Video!
I really got mad after seeing the toptenz clip.
You nailed it! 👍
Thank you for giving me a better picture of the Japanese warriors. I've always found them pretty awesome in their honorable ways. But that top 10 gave me a pretty fuckedup picture of Samurai's. Thanks to you I know better
Same.
Too bad, most of the video was true. Making excuses like "knights did it too" doesn't make it better. Most Samurai, like most people in the Feudal era around the globe, were horrible people by today's standards. If you have a fantastical, romaticised view of someone from that era, it's probably false
The best way to think of samurai is to think of them as people. People are prone to be horrible, just look at the shitshow that America has become. Look at politics, look at religion, look at global conflicts. People can be shit, and the samurai were no different.
Another great video Mr Metaman.
Enjoyed watching this. There are a lot of media outlets doing similar things over the past month as it seems they are REALLY upset with "Ghost of Tsushimas" success for some reason. I'm not an expert, though I have read Miyamoto Musashi a lot as well as The Hagakure and try to watch/read a lot of media on Japanese history, but it is clear they are heinously misrepresenting or lying about a great deal of things based on my knowledge. It's a real shame and in some cases a bit enraging. Cheers for this.
top ten vids etc are like a jack of all trades, master of none. Love these debunking vids