Toyotomi Hideyoshi: The Peasant Who Became Master of Japan

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  • @Biographics
    @Biographics  2 роки тому +22

    Check out Squarespace: squarespace.com/BIOGRAPHICS for 10% off on your first purchase.

    • @chrisanduncensoredjapan6627
      @chrisanduncensoredjapan6627 2 роки тому +2

      Correction - upward mobility was common until Hideyoshi himself changed it in the late 1580s.

    • @JunMoo1993
      @JunMoo1993 2 роки тому +2

      Admiral Yi Soon Shin next please :))))

    • @alfriearnold3115
      @alfriearnold3115 2 роки тому +6

      Its Tokugawa ieyasu btw, not Leyasu

    • @kangmw94
      @kangmw94 2 роки тому

      次は德川家康公もお願いしますよう!!

    • @briandaniel7514
      @briandaniel7514 2 роки тому +1

      its funny that you inform me of characters that i used to play as in the 'Samurai Warriors' game on the PS2. Playing that game and the 'Dynasty Warriors' series when i was in my mid-20's made me super interested in the true stories of both the Warring States period of Japan as well as the 3 Kingdoms period of China back then... Learning about the major characters whom played a part in both the games and real life history of those two periods through your channels is why im subscribed to several of your channels Simon.... thank you for all your enthusiasm and entertaining in-depth information in regards to these individuals and i look forward to more videos involving others from these two periods... Love all your channels...

  • @canadasleftcoast.5744
    @canadasleftcoast.5744 2 роки тому +105

    Nobunaga pounds the rice cake, Toyotomi kneads it, and Tokugawa sits down and eats it!

    • @3nglandWarrior1
      @3nglandWarrior1 2 роки тому

      You listen to HI101?

    • @sammylong3704
      @sammylong3704 11 місяців тому +8

      It's an unfair assessment. Toyotomi definitely eat his fill of the cake. He then passed the cake to his son and that's when Tokugawa snatched it out the infants mouth and eat it himself.

    • @randomlygeneratedname7171
      @randomlygeneratedname7171 Місяць тому

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@sammylong3704Hidioshi did the same thing to nobunaga by designating a surviving son as heir then forgetting about him. Hidiyoshi knew what was up so made 5 regents but still didn’t work as Tokugawa in the first place was a powerful rival/ally not a subject anyways.

    • @napoleon9514
      @napoleon9514 Місяць тому

      ⁰😊😊0😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤​@@3nglandWarrior1

  • @arnoldmojados399
    @arnoldmojados399 2 роки тому +25

    Toyotomi is the Goat..from Peasant to Rule of all Japan? That's Cinderella

  • @kevinmcqueenie7420
    @kevinmcqueenie7420 2 роки тому +114

    Just ready to watch but… if you’re doing Hideyoshi, I’d love to see Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu get the biographics treatment too. Complete the Three Great Unifiers trilogy! From a Brit in Japan who loves that period of history here, it would be very pleasing. Keep up the excellent work on all your many channels my dude!

    • @kevinmcqueenie7420
      @kevinmcqueenie7420 2 роки тому +11

      Or, er, just the one on Ieyasu. You already did Oda (and I watched it!) but still … complete the three great unifiers! (Also nice to see you are doing them in order so maybe Tokugawa in pipeline already?) will go back and rewatch Oda’s vid after this!

    • @kevinmcqueenie7420
      @kevinmcqueenie7420 2 роки тому +14

      Aaaaand now it’s clear you’re planning a video on the last of the three. (Note to self: watch videos before you comment dummy!) great work, thoroughly enjoyed it as ever! I’ll go away now…

    • @ericpace6776
      @ericpace6776 2 роки тому +6

      I think he did an Oda one, but I might be wrong.

    • @sharonb3939
      @sharonb3939 2 роки тому +4

      He did one on oda nobunga

  • @MiserereMD
    @MiserereMD Рік тому +65

    If a bird doesn’t sing….
    Nobunaga: “Kill it!”
    Hideyoshi: “Make it!”
    Ieyasu: “Wait for it!”
    This pretty much sums up the characters of these three leaders.

    • @Anon26535
      @Anon26535 10 місяців тому +6

      Close the program? Restart the program? Wait for the program to respond?

  • @reecepreble2505
    @reecepreble2505 2 роки тому +7

    Korean Admiral Yi might be interesting. Turtle boats.

  • @IpoteticAMVsChannel
    @IpoteticAMVsChannel 2 роки тому +54

    I love you Simon and your team, and I love watching your videos on my lunchbreak but I must say...your misspronounciation of names in this one is on another level! 😂

  • @Tyler-fe5pl
    @Tyler-fe5pl 2 роки тому +7

    Hideoyoshi was such a boss

    • @megoodatgame8535
      @megoodatgame8535 Рік тому

      Yeah, I wish he was more difficult but he had so much great story significance and he had very cool attacks in both of his fights

    • @shawnespinoza9300
      @shawnespinoza9300 Рік тому +2

      IMO Hideyoshi was the ONLY real unifier of Japan. Nobunaga never completed the unification and Ieyasu usurped the role after it was already completed. Hideyoshi is one of my absolute favorite historical figures.

    • @sammylong3704
      @sammylong3704 11 місяців тому

      ​@@shawnespinoza9300 I agree. He definitely played the pivotal role in the unification and he had the highest cliff to climb to achieve it.

  • @GBGB000
    @GBGB000 2 роки тому +66

    It's Tokugawa Ieyasu, not Tokugawa Leyasu. That's an "i" at the beginning. Japanese names don't have L sounds.

    • @Ericisnotachannel
      @Ericisnotachannel 2 роки тому +11

      He's mispronounced Ieyasu in so many videos now, I think he might be doing it on purpose.

    • @ryantune3325
      @ryantune3325 2 роки тому +5

      THANK YOU! He needs someone to help proof these videos or something.

    • @soggylegos8545
      @soggylegos8545 2 роки тому +5

      Of course they don't, because the Honorable Japanese do not take L's.

    • @samham4669
      @samham4669 2 роки тому

      They also don't have uh -> ah or any supporting consonants -> makudonarudo (mcdonald's)

    • @rachaelsdaddontdrink
      @rachaelsdaddontdrink 2 роки тому +2

      Simon say, "So solly... I plonounce most longly"...

  • @Mr_M_History
    @Mr_M_History 2 роки тому +100

    Dude! You're such a king. You have no idea how much guys like us look up to your biographic videos!

  • @jongjunsheng1401
    @jongjunsheng1401 2 роки тому +219

    Dear Simon . It's not Leyasu . It's 'ie' eeyea . ieyasu .

    • @rickman1993
      @rickman1993 2 роки тому +17

      The lack of the long O like in Saito is also quite irksome. Otherwise an incredible video as always

    • @rubiconnn
      @rubiconnn 2 роки тому +10

      @@rickman1993 Nobody cares

    • @rickman1993
      @rickman1993 2 роки тому +35

      @@rubiconnn I’m sure most, if not all, Japanese care.

    • @rubiconnn
      @rubiconnn 2 роки тому +25

      @@rickman1993 They don't. It's only weebs who think they speak for japan who care. Just like if someone who doesn't speak English fluently pronounces something wrong you don't see offended Americans crawling out of the woodwork to correct them.

    • @rickman1993
      @rickman1993 2 роки тому +26

      @@rubiconnn look at you trying to speak for all Japanese saying they don’t care.

  • @jeonyounggun104
    @jeonyounggun104 Рік тому +10

    Immediately after unifying the Japanese archipelago, Hideyoshi wrote that he would take over the Philippines, Taiwan, India, and Thailand, and that he would also conquer China. When he told Joseon to take the lead, he refused and Hideyoshi started a war. He also referred to him as the son of his own sun.

  • @spottedDeath983
    @spottedDeath983 2 роки тому +74

    It’s Tokugawa Ieyasu not Leyasu. I get the English mispronunciations but that’s just wrong.

  • @caynebyron
    @caynebyron 2 роки тому +16

    Simon be reading I as L in "Ieyasu"

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 2 роки тому +25

    1:05 - Chapter 1 - Early years
    3:45 - Chapter 2 - Rising through the ranks
    6:55 - Mid roll ads
    8:20 - Chapter 3 - Becoming the boss
    13:15 - Chapter 4 - One lord to rule them all
    17:50 - Chapter 5 - Collision in korea
    - Chapter 6 -

  • @Hiramthefallen
    @Hiramthefallen 2 роки тому +9

    Love your videos they always send me down an immersive period for days. When I saw your video on oda Clan it took two weeks before I moved on. Your Roman videos kept me in Ancient Rome for a month

  • @johnmiller8975
    @johnmiller8975 2 роки тому +9

    Simon,
    As a librarian I'm going to beg of you to add one thing
    A few further reading links -- your staff & you already must have them from your own research
    I bet a lot of viewers would appreciate that
    I LIKE rabbit holes digging stuff up, others not so much
    Just stick em in the description section

  • @sdogg
    @sdogg 2 роки тому +17

    You and Babish need to do a crossover episode. Maybe Babish can make some old historic food from one of your previous episodes.

  • @hewhoshallnotbenamed5168
    @hewhoshallnotbenamed5168 2 роки тому +7

    With Nobunaga and Hideyoshi done with we now need an Ieyasu Biographics video to complete The Great Unifiers of Japan trilogy.

  • @stuart5178
    @stuart5178 2 роки тому +38

    Regarding Japans invasion of Korea, how about the commander of the Korean navy in 1592 Yi Sun-sin. He is also credited for developing what may have been the firs ironclad warship, the kŏbuksŏn (turtle ship). His fall-rise-fall-rise is interesting.

    • @beno1129
      @beno1129 2 роки тому +9

      Admiral Yi is certainly one of the greatest military leaders that have ever lived, and arguably the greatest admiral. Pound for pound he comes out on top of the likes of Lord Nelson

    • @canadasleftcoast.5744
      @canadasleftcoast.5744 2 роки тому +4

      While not true ironclads, in the second Battle of Kizugawaguchi between the Oda and the Mori, the Oda navy, under the command of Kuki Yoshitaka, used ships with iron plating.

    • @samham4669
      @samham4669 2 роки тому +4

      Like the damming of Salsu, crediting Yi with the turtle ships is apocryphal. These existed since the previous dynasty of Goryeo. They were just very useful against the Japanese who had similar tactics to the Spanish and liked to board. The spiked ceiling prevented this and being ironclad didn't really help because the Japanese pine ships didn't support cannon barrages anyway.
      What he did well was use civilian intelligence to gain a numbers advantage, unlike popular belief that he always fought outnumbered.

    • @wadepsilon01
      @wadepsilon01 11 місяців тому

      The turtle ship that was ''restored'' in Korea had different performance from the description in the logbook of Yi Sun-sin.

    • @eatcarpet
      @eatcarpet 2 місяці тому

      There's no evidence that the turtle ship was covered with iron.

  • @fowleheidi482
    @fowleheidi482 29 днів тому

    Simon add your rants on every channel, it's your personality that brings the interest in your channels

  • @goldesd90
    @goldesd90 2 роки тому +7

    You should make a video about minamoto no yoshitsune. Great content!

  • @Gamerdad8787
    @Gamerdad8787 2 роки тому +3

    Love your videos id love for you to do more videos on acient japan

  • @michaelsinger4638
    @michaelsinger4638 2 роки тому +8

    Such a cool topic. Could you do a video on Tokugawa Ieyasu as well? It would compliment this video
    Perfectly.

  • @cecileroy557
    @cecileroy557 3 місяці тому +2

    Thank you so much - I love learning about this period in Japanese history!

  • @angelitabecerra
    @angelitabecerra 2 роки тому +4

    More videos on the Sengoku and Tokugawa periods of Japan please 🙏🏾
    Across any of your channels that seems appropriate

  • @Berengier817
    @Berengier817 2 роки тому +7

    love these Japanese history videos

  • @tljackson7898
    @tljackson7898 Рік тому +2

    Simon…right on with the videos! Can’t stop watching them! Well you got the two unifiers of Japan but where’s the video on the third one brother! Tokugawa Ieyasu. I’m waiting for that video brother!

  • @tonypintarelli877
    @tonypintarelli877 2 роки тому +15

    More feudal Japan bios, please!

  • @TheEvilCommenter
    @TheEvilCommenter 2 роки тому +5

    Good video 👍

  • @TransRoofKorean
    @TransRoofKorean 2 роки тому +6

    Thinking about Japan invading Korea: you haven't done one on Admiral Yi yet, have you? There's a great one that gets abysmally low recognition.

  • @jaymo8206
    @jaymo8206 2 роки тому +3

    I.used to live on the Big Island of Hawaii during the 90s. During that time I produced a local cable access shoe centered on comedy sketches, music videos and the occasional interview. There was this skinny japanese looking dude who literally wore an aluminum foil cap who'd skip and dance around through Hilo town like the pied piper. One day he agreed to an on street interview. Yes he was way out there, in his own universe, and when I asked him.his name, he said, 'Toyotomi Hediyoshi.'

  • @Sinic818
    @Sinic818 2 роки тому +3

    Great video. I would love to see a video about John Curtin.

  • @jomama3465
    @jomama3465 2 роки тому +1

    Love the video, as always. But who is Tokugawa Leyasu?

  • @jvliverpool873
    @jvliverpool873 2 роки тому +3

    Excellent timing as in the current moment I am reading the imjin war

  • @Soul93Taker
    @Soul93Taker 2 роки тому +4

    I do find the video incredibly fascinating and interesting, but i can't help laughing at Toyotomi's tiny baby hands at 4:07 what the heck is that drawing.

  • @asikbanget5041
    @asikbanget5041 6 місяців тому +1

    Among the 3 great unifiers, hideyoshi is my favorite

  • @Mrgunsngear
    @Mrgunsngear 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks

  • @sashizakura9124
    @sashizakura9124 Рік тому +6

    Holy crap, you missed the entire part about how Hideyoshi had his own nephew - who was next in line by his own decree - banished and murdered, along with his entire extended family! All because some concubine conveniently popped out a son for him 2 years after he'd made Hidetsugu his heir! That's a really important part of Hideyoshi's story.

  • @UvstudioCaToronto
    @UvstudioCaToronto 2 роки тому +8

    Correction: Tokugawa wasn't Nobunaga's general. They were (unequal) allies.

  • @levijones938
    @levijones938 2 роки тому +5

    I read Taiko by Eiji Yoshikawa this year great story on Toyatomi. Always enjoy the videos

  • @transfan962
    @transfan962 2 роки тому +5

    Do a video on admiral yi

  • @RetroletsplayGBA
    @RetroletsplayGBA 2 роки тому +1

    Simon my boy let's go

  • @milosjanos5058
    @milosjanos5058 2 роки тому +5

    What a coincidence, recently I´m watching taiga series Oda Nobunaga 🙂

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE 2 роки тому +4

    I knew who this was and some of the information but not all of it. A very good video thanks for sharing keep up the good work

  • @universaleffect8006
    @universaleffect8006 Рік тому

    日本人でも知らないほどの話まで詳しく解説してくれるのは嬉しい🇯🇵

  • @visigoth9271
    @visigoth9271 2 роки тому +6

    It's Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi we praise! He built the castle in just one day!

  • @almostideal1306
    @almostideal1306 2 роки тому +6

    14:05 Me - "Wait, is he gathering the Triforce?"

  • @ImranAhmed-bm1os
    @ImranAhmed-bm1os 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent Excellent quality i love you so much 💗 💓

  • @onbedoeldekut1515
    @onbedoeldekut1515 2 роки тому +16

    You know how Ieyasu is a name, and so starts with a capital letter, which DOESN'T look like an L?

  • @sgxthach
    @sgxthach 2 роки тому +2

    I got a good chuckle out of all the mispronunciation, cause I know Simon probably doesn't care at all. But saying "Saito" as "sate" had me laughing and cringing all at the same time, thank you xD

  • @greggweber9967
    @greggweber9967 2 роки тому +2

    There's an app involving going down a river and choosing to attack or gain forces in your boats. There are other things like getting the gold by opening things in the correct order.
    As the Wicked Witch said, "these things must be done carefully."

  • @3nglandWarrior1
    @3nglandWarrior1 2 роки тому +1

    TOKUGAWA NEXT!

  • @whisk3896
    @whisk3896 2 роки тому +1

    Another Great Video madude, but since you mentioned the korean campaign, ehy not follow up this video with someone like Yi Sun Shin, the admiral who helped save korea, but anyway, thanks for making history fun

  • @Uzair_Of_Babylon465
    @Uzair_Of_Babylon465 2 роки тому +3

    Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing

  • @LoverboyB_Pookie
    @LoverboyB_Pookie 2 місяці тому

    I’ve been to Osaka castle a few times. It amazes me every timr

  • @benflay6038
    @benflay6038 2 роки тому +1

    Should do Morihei Ueshiba fascinating man

  • @25Erix
    @25Erix Рік тому

    I would love a Biographic video on another figure of this time period. The One-Eyed Dragon of Oshu, Date Masamune.

  • @Peta_CHAD69
    @Peta_CHAD69 2 роки тому +4

    It's Ieyasu, not Leyasu
    Like, this isn't even an issue of linguistic difference, the first letter of the person's name is always capitalized so there's no way Ieyasu would have un-capitalized L there.
    This is a lazy researching is what it is.

  • @tajindersingh9740
    @tajindersingh9740 9 місяців тому +1

    Hideyoshi and Nobunaga are the two that unified japan(During Hideyoshi’s reign whole of Japan was already unified).The other seized power and established a new government.

  • @hime1999
    @hime1999 2 роки тому +1

    Hey, how about making a video about one-eyed dragon Date Masamune, the daimyo whose helmet became the inspiration for Darth Vader's mask? This is the guy who adored Oda Nobunaga but was too young to be his retainer, then went wild in the northern region after inheriting his dad's clan (by shooting his dad), joined Toyotomi Hideyoshi on the Odawara siege after being fashionably late, apologized by parading in wearing literally a dead man's kimono (later he was late again in different occasion and carried a giant cross as a show of apology), and became his retainer, and later became Tokugawa Ieyasu's retainer and served as one for the next 3 shoguns. I think he would make a very interesting subject.

  • @tracym8952
    @tracym8952 2 роки тому +5

    Oda Nobunaga would be a good biographics in my opinion

    • @me0101001000
      @me0101001000 2 роки тому +3

      It already exists! He did him awhile ago

    • @tracym8952
      @tracym8952 2 роки тому +1

      @@me0101001000 I will check that out for sure

  • @snidely_whiplash
    @snidely_whiplash Рік тому +1

    Read Taiko. It fills in the gaps about his youth.

  • @slimjimman96
    @slimjimman96 Рік тому

    Should do a video on who the leader was and who the Ikki-Ikko were and one on who the Saika Renegades were and who the leader was and their main guy Magochi’s Sakai was!!.

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman9821 2 роки тому +5

    Never knew before that social mobility was a thing in feudal Japan.

    • @martytu20
      @martytu20 2 роки тому +4

      Toyotomi was the one who made sure there won’t be another one like him.

    • @LuisLopez-zh9kh
      @LuisLopez-zh9kh 2 роки тому +4

      It wasn't! Oda Nobunaga was the big game changer here.

  • @danielreuben1058
    @danielreuben1058 2 роки тому +2

    Random question Simon. If I skip through the advertisement you do, do you get less money? I ask, because if you do lose money because of this, I'll gladly watch them. You rock, allegedly.

  • @n1k0abc34
    @n1k0abc34 2 роки тому +4

    You should do a video on admiral yi. He was pretty much the only reason that Korea won that war.

  • @ReD_2022
    @ReD_2022 2 роки тому +2

    He's my favorite character from Drifters

  • @ZoniacMan
    @ZoniacMan 2 місяці тому +1

    Who is this Leyasu you keep refering to? He sounds interesting. After the Ieyasu video you could do one on him.

  • @drstone2358
    @drstone2358 2 роки тому +1

    Been waiting for someone to talk about him

  • @lostinsalem6562
    @lostinsalem6562 2 роки тому +3

    Now I can reconcile real history with Nioh 2!

  • @allclairesbears
    @allclairesbears 2 роки тому +1

    Greetings from the other side of the world🇳🇿 . I've been binging some of your channels for the last week while I cant go to work. I would love it if you would do an episode on Kate Sheppard and the New Zealand Suffragettes. Or one that might be closer to home, Irena Sendler, who was a member of the Polish resistance in WWII.

  • @lladi9829
    @lladi9829 2 роки тому +31

    You should definitely make a biographic on Yi Sun Sin. Hands down the greatest admiral of history

    • @jongjunsheng1401
      @jongjunsheng1401 2 роки тому +3

      Agreed

    • @JeromeDoyle
      @JeromeDoyle 2 роки тому +5

      Among the greats without a doubt. His last words always resonated with me. "The battle is at its height. Beat my war drums. Do not announce my death." Elite level final curtain.

    • @erraticonteuse
      @erraticonteuse 2 роки тому +5

      Yeah, when he said "Korea had a great navy", I was like, "No, Korea had *the greatest admiral in history* ." The navy was good (due in no small part to the Yi designed turtle ships) but the navy as a whole was only effective because it was wielded by Yi.

    • @martytu20
      @martytu20 2 роки тому

      TL DR- he drills his men

    • @wadepsilon01
      @wadepsilon01 11 місяців тому

      But that man didn't achieve his goal (destroy the retreating Japanese army and kill or capture the Daimyo's) in the last battle.

  • @altinmares8363
    @altinmares8363 2 роки тому +2

    Please post videos about Presocratics!!

  • @rishypantina7527
    @rishypantina7527 16 днів тому

    14:38
    Servant of Ujimasa:
    Bro this is the 16th person who committed sepoku

  • @WildBillCox13
    @WildBillCox13 2 роки тому +2

    He said he hated war, but he made a Korea out of it . . .

  • @shinuradevil
    @shinuradevil 2 роки тому

    please review ieyasu tokugawa, the third samurai to unify japan.
    thanks

  • @Joeysaladslover
    @Joeysaladslover Місяць тому +2

    SHOGUN

  • @FreeMovies01
    @FreeMovies01 Рік тому +3

    So these characters in nioh 2 were real

    • @megoodatgame8535
      @megoodatgame8535 Рік тому

      They added the characters from Nioh 2 into Japanese history

  • @dexterrr9163
    @dexterrr9163 2 роки тому +3

    Hideyoshi is smart for sending the jobless dangerous samurais to korea

  • @CatnamedMittens
    @CatnamedMittens 2 роки тому

    Nobunaga is definitely the most colorful of the unifiers.

  • @JohnCasteel1333
    @JohnCasteel1333 12 днів тому

    He called 2:26 ieyasu Leyasu 😂 lol

  • @ubermikesocal
    @ubermikesocal 2 роки тому +3

    14:05
    In 1590, The Legend of Zelda Clan was born. Hyrule was the capital, and a young mysterious warrior named Link Yamamoto was destined to fight against Ganon for the destiny of the TriForce

  • @princepscivitatis4083
    @princepscivitatis4083 2 роки тому +48

    Fun fact: After being crowned the "Unifier of Japan", Toyotomi Hideyoshi threatened the Spanish in the Philippines that he will invade Luzon and Manila with 100,000 men if the Spanish King (Philip the Prudent) doesn't pay him an official visit and establish formal diplomatic relations.
    The Spanish sent Friar Antonio López (an ethnic Chinese) to meet Toyotomi Hideyoshi. López first showed him a map of the territory under Philip's hegemony. Then he suggested a route for Toyotomi's 100,000 men to take if they ever do plan to invade the Philippines. Toyotomi was baffled to say the least. In an attempt to intimidate López, Toyotomi showed him the ongoing construction of 10 *huge* warships (bigger than anything the Spanish had in their Atlantic Fleet). López doubled down and said the Spanish only have 10,000 men in the Philippines (in actuality, there were only approximately 1,571 fighting men) and they are absolutely giddy to meet Toyotomi's 100,000-man army.
    In the end, Toyotomi didn't dare call López's bluff. He instead invaded Korea and got his ass kicked. But the aforementioned route López gave Toyotomi was the one the Japanese used when they invaded the Philippines in 1941.

    • @Discosaturn
      @Discosaturn 2 роки тому +3

      He should have gone ahead with the original plan instead. If that had happened then the Philippines would have been heavily Japanese-speaking today, perhaps part of the Japanese Empire or an independent country itself.

    • @princepscivitatis4083
      @princepscivitatis4083 2 роки тому +9

      @@Discosaturn
      TIL The Philippines isn't an independent country.

    • @user-im7tp2os9g
      @user-im7tp2os9g Місяць тому

      fake

  • @chazdoomy1512
    @chazdoomy1512 2 роки тому +2

    Do John Mosses Browning.

  • @octaviopla5506
    @octaviopla5506 2 роки тому

    make a video of The Count of Mirabeau

  • @BeautyBear1990
    @BeautyBear1990 2 роки тому

    Please do a video on actor Gilbert Godfried. He died earlier today from an unknown illness. He was in one of my favorite movies growing up and would love to see a video on him.

  • @bouiriamine5116
    @bouiriamine5116 2 роки тому

    Do episode on Pyrrhus pls

  • @me0101001000
    @me0101001000 2 роки тому +73

    I really recommend doing Akechi Mitsuhide, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Uesugi Kenshin, and Takeda Shingen as well! These are the most interesting people in the Sengoku era that I don't think you've done yet

    • @WildBillCox13
      @WildBillCox13 2 роки тому +1

      Gifu dono . . . the Red Devils . . .

    • @me0101001000
      @me0101001000 2 роки тому +2

      @@WildBillCox13 yeah they're cool, but I don't think they hold a candle to those I stated.

    • @fuzzy4life939
      @fuzzy4life939 2 роки тому

      Or just watch age of samurai on Netflix

    • @duncancurtis1758
      @duncancurtis1758 2 роки тому

      All clans had a Mon or crest. Usagi Yojimbo has a three white dot mon despite being a ronin of the Northern Province of Kyushu.

    • @maddoxXL101
      @maddoxXL101 2 роки тому +1

      Just play samurai warriors learn all you need to lol

  • @darkusaurelius
    @darkusaurelius 2 роки тому

    Indeed, it is Tokugawa Ieyasu

  • @nigelwilliams5914
    @nigelwilliams5914 2 роки тому +2

    Ah but if you played nioh 2 you know they was really fighting yoki

  • @johnmiller8975
    @johnmiller8975 2 роки тому

    Simon you might want to profile this gentleman
    Tokugawa Tsunayoshi

  • @hytraetion
    @hytraetion Рік тому +1

    two out of three unifiers covered? Not enough simon not enough

  • @mbank3832
    @mbank3832 Рік тому

    Never heard of this guy until the Onimusha games

  • @mathew85
    @mathew85 2 роки тому

    That one groups logo is the triforce lol

  • @StefanMedici
    @StefanMedici 2 роки тому

    ” That's a story for another day". Another day very soon I hope Fact Boi.

  • @TransRoofKorean
    @TransRoofKorean 2 роки тому +3

    6:35 that painting is incredible

  • @kellychuang8373
    @kellychuang8373 2 роки тому +3

    That's good and also if you haven't done one by now may want to do one on Gorge Armstrong Custer or try telling the Battle of Little Big Horn as well those seem like a topics of discussion.

  • @kyalocrosson917
    @kyalocrosson917 2 роки тому +1

    Dope! Learned a lot Simon! Great writing and great talent!

  • @seanbrazell7095
    @seanbrazell7095 2 роки тому +3

    I wonder if the crucifixions of Christians in Nagasaki played any role in it's being one of a very few cities chosen to be kept from being bombed by the Allies in WW2 so as to be used as an excruciating example, by way of one of the first atomic bombs, of what would happen to the entire empire should they not surrender?

    • @midknight
      @midknight 2 роки тому

      First we send our priests, then we send our armies to wipe out those pagans who resist our religion and rule. Yup, that’s exactly what Jesus would have done.

    • @theawesomeman9821
      @theawesomeman9821 2 роки тому +4

      The Allies cared about preserving much of Japan's infrastructure as much as possible and Nagasaki was an industrial port. The hope was to make Japan an ally after the war against the USSR, so wrecking everything Japan had would be counter productive.

    • @hewhoshallnotbenamed5168
      @hewhoshallnotbenamed5168 2 роки тому

      More of a coincidence than anything else. Nagasaki was a port city and an industrial hub so of course it made a logical target. Besides, I highly doubt anyone involved in the planning of the atomic attacks even had any remembrance or knowledge in general of the missionaries' massacre as it was going on 4 centuries past at that point, plus the US is predominantly protestant while the massacre involved Catholics.