Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 - Full History
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2020
- The full history behind the Mongol Invasions of Japan. In 1274 and 1281 the Mongol Empire turned its gaze towards the isolated island nation of Japan. After sending envoys to Japan with no luck diplomatically Kublai Khan the Mongol leader made the decision to invade Japan.
The Mongols would attack the Islands 2 times...the first is covered here in this video...part 2 in a few days will cover the 2nd.
The two warrior types of Mongol Warrior and Samurai differed from each other in not just arms and armor but also in tactics and strategy. This covers the full Mongol and Japanese history behind the invasion of Tsushima, Iki and the mainland of Japan.
We also cover in detail the structure, culture, tactics, weapons and armor of both the Mongol and Samurai Army.
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Music:
Samuele Birolini
Song: "Bushido The Way of the Warrior
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also
Epidemicsound.com
Book Sources:
Early Samurai AD 200-1500 - Anthony Bryant/Angus Mcbride
Samurai Commanders 940-1576 - Stephen Turnbull/Richard Hook
Samurai The World of the Warrior - Stephen Turnbull
The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274/1281 - Stephen Turnbull
The Mongol Invason of Japan - Yamada Nakaba
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How huge this empire was, in the far west they fought against Polish, German and Hungarian knights and in the far east against the samurai, when these people knew nothing about each other, really remarkable!
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So I got 10 minutes into the game (Ghost of Tsushima), and decided I wanted to know a little more about the background. THIS told me all I needed to know! Thank you!
Outstanding game.
我也玩这个游戏了，跟真实历史相差甚远。真实的情况是，80个武士对几万名蒙古军人。
Dan Carlin-Hard Core History (Wrath of the Khans) is the best way to learn about this.
Same here❤
Same here 😂
I'm Japanese. Thank you for the informative video!
Japan indeed won two Mongol invasions, showcasing the strength of the samurai.
However, these battles led to the downfall of the Hojo clan's shogunate, paving the way for the Ashikaga clan to establish a new shogunate.
The absence of land rewards for samurai after fighting the Mongols triggered significant changes in Japanese history.
There's a legend that a divine wind (kamikaze) helped Japan win during the Mongol invasions.
This legend later influenced the use of "kamikaze" for suicide attacks in WWII, 900 years later.
Incredible warrior culture! Much respect.
As an American, I'm glad that the Japanese are our allies now. The tradition and ferocity of the Japanese always deserve respect.
@@kyledabearsfanfeared them so much you didn’t want to fight them for real
@Maynard-il1yj fight them for real? Have you read a book? All the US did was fight brutally Island to island. Face to face with the Japanese. We just decided 1 million more American deaths and countless Japanese deaths were not worth an invasion. Read a book.
@@kyledabearsfan oh that’s ALL the did?! so the didn’t drop 2 atomic bombs on cities?!
I was stationed at an US Air Force communications site just outside of Fukuoka (Hakata). I have been fascinated by the battles but have been unable to find factual information about these battles. The Japanese versions of these events, especially in the Hakata area was more folklore than fact. This video presented the vital pieces of information that I have been looking for over the intervening 40 years. Thank you!
This is the first time I have ever learned of the details of the battle(s) which gave Japan their faith in the "divine wind." The video did a fantastic job of explaining the details both vocally and visually. Thank you for putting this together.
Great content !!!
The history of the expansion of the Mongol empire from its humble beginnings is a fascinating one. I really enjoyed this, sure glad I wasn't there. It looks like the weather played a significant role in the invasion's failure. Thanks for the history lesson. :)
Brilliant video!
Great feature you put together! Enjoyed this one a lot 😉
Great doco!
Great video! The battles, combined with the paintings is a great way of retelling the story.
This channel is so underrated. keep doing this great work.
Much appreciated! Am back making videos again. Thanks for watching this back then :)
I just discovered this channel I love it
Nice channel
very well presented. thanks for your effort to create this
Seriously, your videos just keep on getting better... love the maps and the animations, great job!
Thanks Cy! Means a lot coming from you! Cheers!
Excellent video. Very informative and well produced. I’m looking forward to consuming more of your content.
Cheers and thanks for watching!
Best documentary by far I've seen on this subject. Thank you. Not only are you genuinely neutral and unbiased, but you present a lot of detail and background that others don't.
Thanks for the video! Just started playing the video game "Ghost Of Tsushima " which gave me interest in this topic and after watching an hour long documentary on the Mongol Empire where Japan wasn't spoken about in detail I found your video and it was great. Keep it up👍 The medium of video games sure is a nice way to learn about important topics like this
It really is. I've been a gamer all my life (52yr old Gex X) and love the PC port of GoT
I enjoy the whole clip - great thanks for crystal clear description
Thank you 🙏🏾 for no commercial ads😊🥳
I really enjoyed this.
Thank you 😊
Thanks This helped with my essay a lot :)
Very interesting.
Great job!
Great research on this‼️
I was not aware of this at all.
Nice job. Great video. Keep the vids coming. 😊
Wonderfully told story! Thankyou!
Great video, thank you!
Lots of great detailed information.
Great video man good work
Very interested! Thank you!
I keep finding outstanding history videos on youtube. This one does not disappoint. I love history. I was glued to the history channel in the late 90s early 2000s. I cant anymore because now its all swamp people, pawn Star this, and forge in fire "reality" shows. Thank you for uploading and sharing this high quality and enriched historical content.
I'm with you, Joel. I was a big History Channel fan back in the very late 90s and into the early 2000s. Today all the good History Channel stuff, usually from the past, is shown during the day. At night during prime time it's swamp people and Forged In Fire shows. I miss the times the History Channel put out some really interesting stuff. In fact I had totally forgotten about the History Channel until I saw your post a few minutes ago. Do you remember that rad show, "Most Deadliest Warrior" on another cable channel? It ran back around 2009 to 2011. The last episode was, "Vampires versus Zombies".
Very interesting. Thank you.
NOTE: THIS IS THE FULL EPISODE OF THE MONGOL INVASIONS OF JAPAN AND CONTAINS BOTH PART 1 & 2 :)
ERRATA: I misspoke in the video during the Samurai Armour and Sword segment and referred to the Japanese sword as Katana when it was during this time a Tachi that was used...longer and more curved.
Samurais fighting in the closed confines of the Mongol ships learned that the longer Tachis were not very manoeuvrable. This led to the birth of shorter uchi katanas.
Really superbly told, many thanks.
Excellent video!
I enjoyed your story telling, Thank you
The most accurate English explanation I've ever seen! In most English explanations, it is explained that the typhoon was the only reason for Mongolia's withdrawal, so as a Japanese person I am happy to see your video. By the way, there is information that an epidemic was prevalent in the East Route Army at the time, and this is thought to be one of the reasons for the defeat.
All hail your brave ancestors standing tall against the mighty Mongol empire...
He's reading a book 📖
No disrespect, the Samurai were awesome, but keep in mind the vast majority of invaders were Chinese and Muslim conscripts. Had it been an actual Mongol army, it may have succeeded.
@the_Kurgan yeah I heard the monghols cannot drown, they would have flown with their wings to the shore. Never heard such stupid excuse. Are you monghols.
@@the_Kurgan why? Just asking
i did enjoy this,great content mate subbed
Great video! Very educational. Thank you
This was all very interesting.
Love this chapter of Japanese history. SUBSCRIBED!
Great video bro very well made 👍 please make a video on some Irish history in the future I'd love to see a video on the French invasion of Ireland or any irish wars also a good video idea for you is Spartacus the gladiator who lead a slave rebellion against Rome in around 73 bc. But great job on you're videos bro I just subbed
Terrific!
Thank you for sharing! 🙏👍✌️🇬🇧
Nice
Brilliant, especially the extensive armor study 🙏 Thankyou
Cheers and thank you for watching!
Much better than long ago....I like when u make videos where I can learn something
I want reparations from the Mongols
Assuming you're a russian, arent you paying them to the ukrainians now?
Maybe after you pay us for our pain and suffering, subjecting us to that terrible attempt at humor
@@JME1186lol but yeah every culture can ask for reparations a stupid precedent to do
I want reparations for Alexander the Great after he took my ancestors farm. Keep looking back there reparations for all!!!
I want reparation from your long gone queen Victoria for colonizing and looting my country and others straight to third world nation while she sit and protected in luxury island wth great currency from our resources.
I think this was a great compilation of both video's great job. Hey on a side note: Have you ever considered making a video on "Yore life as a Persian Immortal." I'm pretty sure a fair amount of records exist about them. It could be a great video.
Yes, Persian immortal is on my list. I just wish we had a bit more information on them but i have some ideas...so hoping for one in future...so many ideas so little time :)
@@YoreHistory---Hope you make that video soon. The Persian Immortals are some of the more interesting soldiers in history to read about. Well at least to me.
@@brokenbridge6316 No I agree they are very interesting and still shrouded in a lot of mystery :)
@@YoreHistory----I hope that you can shed some of that mystery.
nice
Dude this is great content you deserve more subs
Thanks for watching...it starts with people like you. Cheers!
Yore History ya dude I am a happy recent sub after watching the Persian videos what program do you use ? Your animations are awesome.
@@thatswhatshesaidbro Adobe Photoshop for maps and main graphics, Premiere Pro for main video timeline, After Effects for Animation/2.5d and Audition for audio :) My goal is if i cant do something to figure it out on a growing list as my hope is to continually make them better.
Yore History good work effort I have the same attitude toward investing. I started with 1 book ended up LITERALLY filling up my book held with over 100 bucks and changed my career path to finance. I wish you the best of luck and I got my notifications on. Can’t wait for the next one
@@thatswhatshesaidbro Thanks Andre, may have to hit you up for some investment tips lol. In all seriousness though thanks. Next two will be 2nd person so not sure if you are into that content but after that its back to battles and narrative documentaries! Cheers.
But yes so very true what you said...anyone can change anything at any point if the will is there. I could open Adobe programs that was about it but hours become dozens of hours, hundreds, thousands and if you aren't improving you aren't trying :)
Best video on this topic I’ve ever seen so far I never knew about all these extra details
Awesome story, I enjoyed listening.
12:01 I love that picture. Really brings me back. It was for on the cover of the Asian Dynasties expansion of Age of Empires 3. One of my favorite RTS games almost entirely because of the expansion haha. I think that game skyrocketed my love for all things Samurai.
Some context to explaining the behavior of the samurai during battle:
So the reason why the Samurai were obsessed with obtaining proof of achievements in battle because the Shogunate would reward them(assuming that they could prove their deeds) with territory of their own. This was very appealing for many of the lesser samurai who had little wealth and little or no land to call their own.
There's a case study on a specific samurai named Takezaki Suenaga, whose journey to obtain glory and be rewarded is on youtube called "The badass life of Tekezaki Suenaga." More on the entertaining side than scholarly like this one but interesting nonetheless.
Thanks. Helped me enjoy Ghost of Tsushima even more. I hope you would also do Imjin wars.
Lol I just got it this week have been playing it non stop
Fantastic game...just started playing it myself a week ago and remembered I likely had comments here I didnt check! :)
Is this the video I was looking for while eating my food? (just finished everything before playing the video)
Good video
Awesome vid - thanks for sharing
It’s 2 am and I don’t care as long as I’m watching quality I’m happy
12:05 AM and I am thinking the same thing!
Nun wrong wit that
It was 2am when the Mongols landed in Tsushima
Love how you use the real word usage for these nations
Jordan? LOL. Love your vids.
Jordan?
Oh my real name? Gordon or Piet in Holland
Love Japan's fighting spirit
Fun fact actually the katana was a last resort to the samurai during battle usually that you would use a long spear that was curved at the top
That is true but not even katanas existed back then, the main sword used by the Japanese was the “Tachi”
Do you mean Naginata's lol Or Yari's
I am Japanese. I will explain using the translation function. In the 16th century, samurai used spears as their main weapon, but during this period, the main attack was to shoot arrows from horses, called yabusame. There is a gap of more than 300 years between the 15th century samurai you know and the samurai of this period, so there is a considerable difference from what is known worldwide. By the way, 300 years after the time of this video, the samurai of the Warring States period that everyone in the world knows was sometimes called "Yumitori". The meaning is a person who excels in archery.
@@ew21st23 In Japanese war culture, was archery skill more important than skill with a melee weapon? In the West, we think that samurai primarily used swords in battle, but if their swords were razor-sharp like the video says, I think such swords would chip, break, or dull after a few hits. So it makes sense that spears were used more often than swords. But we never hear about legendary spearmen or archers, just swordsmen. Why did the sword get such prominence in foreign depictions of historical Japanese warriors?
@@debroofgreen Archery skills were important in war, but bows were a consumable item. However, the Japanese sword was a weapon that was always worn, a symbol of the samurai, and a treasure. Japanese swords are different from the materials they are made of. It is made from a material called ``Tamahagane'', which has high purity iron. It is not easy to rust. The process of making it is time-consuming, but a sword is made by stacking many layers of iron and hammering it out, making it razor-sharp but sticky and hard to break. Therefore, the sword was a valuable item, and as it was passed down from generation to generation in the samurai clan, it was also the pride of that family.
you, Sir, just got a new subscriber.
My favorite video on this subject
This would make an awesome movie!
Ever since I read a small blurb about the two battles of Hakata in a history book 2 decades ago, i really wanted a movie to be made on it. That never happened, but i think we got something even better in Ghost of Tsushima. I hope the sequel takes place during the second invasion, and at Hakata.
Same, was fantastic game.
There is a Japanese drama. 49 episode series. Came out in 2001. Hojo Tokimune.
The drama covers both Mongol invasions.
@@f430ferrari5 that’s awesome, I will check it out. Thanks.
I m from Osaka and most novels and historical research shows that samurais were trained to be excellent archers. Most of the arons were made by bamboo. And the preparation for the second invasion were stay behind the wall and shooting. Another strategy were many obstacles to stop the mongols cavalry. In case of troops surrounded the walls or even conquering the wall, the samurais cavalry were ready to attack with a excellent skills of shooting while running on the horse, they are called yabusame and still today there is demonstration of this art. My uncle travelled many countries to exhibit this art.
That is awesome! I will have to look up that art. Thanks for this information!
Nice vid, bro deffo sounds like Jordon Peterson if you close your eyes
LOL...i was waiting for the next comparison...it had been a few weeks :D Cheers.
Japanese samurais were ridiculously OP skilled at long bows and katana swords strategies
Taking out the enemy command structure is so modern in concept yet the Japanese did this nine hundred years ago...
@@robbrown4621during the Mongol invasion, it is curious that medieval Japan didn't even have a navy and warships to have a naval battle in odrder to stop thr Mongol landing,
@@Emilechen Apparently, they didn't need one as it worked out...
I learned this by playing shogun2
@@Emilechenthat’s because the Japanese fought themselves more than foreign countries due to their isolationist tendencies they did have ships but they were mainly merchant vessels or transports Korea and China did have a problem with with Japanese piracy but before the Mongol invasions that was the extent of Japan outside contact
great vid. just a note about Daizufu three syllable word with the vowel u pronounced ie, fu
Hojo Tokimune, the ruler of the time, cut the original messenger twice. The second time, the Japanese built earthworks and changed their fighting methods. In addition, they made a night attack so as not to let them sleep at night, and waited for the exhaustion of the Yuan army.
This ent first time hearing about it, and I want a movie made lol
So glad you are doing videos on Asian History. Do you think you could do some concerning the Chu-Han Contention?
I will definitely revisit chinese history but initially to finish warring states series.
@@YoreHistory Where did you get up to?
@@426mak Just the first episode...I had some other series doing better and my pronunciations for names were not as good as I had hoped (Plus i have improved production quality wise and wanted to do it justice) so it went on hiatus for a while but I will return to them after concluding my 2nd person series...within the next few months is the plan as I will be ending the Parthian series as well and starting the Sassanid.
@@YoreHistory Glad you are keeping busy in lockdown. Stay safe and continue the good work.
And the most swords I ever seen the Samurais use is a very long sword that was used for attacking your opponent on horse
You could see Katana of Jyomon era which were excavated in Japan , most beautiful katakata in 10 thousands years ago.
Goooold
Has anyone seen the documentary featuring CGI tech covering the entire bay where recently they found all the floundered ships entrails (anchors, some steel components, arrow tips & armour) that bay's littered with bone & ships although there's not much left of the wood.
便利で有益です。ありがとう。
This is a 3 year old video that just happened to be recommended to me right when I decided to replay Ghost of Tsushima which is based off this time period. Coincidence?? Lol
Lol. The algorithm do be like that :D
The script of the narration was very good .
Great content Jordan Peterson
Lol...sigh... :)
Except i sense no misogyny in this mans voice. His content is historical fact not alt-right pseudo intellectual motivation speeches marked towards bastardized young men with daddy issues.
@@ihatemary370 Why is it that idiots always have to involve their personal political opinions on EVERYTHING?
@@brbrdeng9122 why is it that idiots don’t realize politics meshes with the fabric of everything? Everything is political. And trust me the left didn’t want to make a misogynistic homophobic condescending religious holier than thou fundamentalist political but sadly incels need a daddy figure
@@ihatemary370you’re projecting your own failings onto others; why?? 😂
I've commented two or three times already about how I'll queue up videos and one of yours will be in that list and background UA-cam while I'm busy with something else on my PC and EVERYTIME this happens and your video eventually plays I'll find myself thinking something along the lines of "Wait, what Jordan Peterson video did I put in this list?" or "I don't think I've heard Jordan Peterson speaking this thoroughly about historical topics like this before. This is Unusual". After the very first time this has made an occurrence, though, my memory will eventually kick in and I'll realize "OH! It's the Yore History channel's video that caught my eye!" finally remembering what you had said in reply to my first comment where I claimed the striking similarity in your voice and once again i'll say how uncanny it is to my ears! Regardless thank you for the very interesting videos you spend time putting out here! ✌☮
LOl one day for my own amusement I will dig up every "Is this Jordan Peterson/This sounds like Jordan Peterson/Why is he using Jordan Peterson AI" comment and make a collage :D
I wonder why the Mongol didn't occupy Tsushima after the first the invasion. It's the ideal spot to plan an invasion of Japan.
I think the Mongols through the Chinese knew that the area they were hitting for their invasion represented but a tip of Japan. They needed to have landed and maintained their larger numbers and their commanders. Having lost numbers and commanders they likely were concerned that Japan would muster re-enforcements from elsewhere in Japan.
This is evident during the 2nd invasion attempt when an estimated 30k to 60k additional Japanese troops were enroute but had not yet arrived by the time of the Tsunami.
They may have also felt that with additional troops going in and not returning from Korea could reveal to the Koreans regime instability on their part but that is pure speculation on my part...either way interesting question you raised and I would love to know the *real* reason myself :)
@@YoreHistory probably similar reason why both Goryeo and Joseon ended up not taking the island despite invasion of Tsushima few times, which was severe lack of farming land and just not worth the cost. Even on their own, they had to rely on being the middle of trade between Korean Peninsula and main islands of Japan or piracy
they have found another better islands which are much better to colonize and settle rather than japan,
in the south east in 1300 A.D .
the islands are rich in giant pearls, and along with their colonialization comes the indo malays
great migration in those islands
there lie the last of the yuan dynasty though not really over nor finish they just ''went under'' in 1429
They couldn't take Tsushima thanks to all the gamers who plays Ghost of Tsushima.
(Yeah, my comedy is so good like Ea-Nasir's copper).
@@YoreHistory there were multiple islands they could have occupied or simply garrisoned. I think they understood their prey and that nukes didn't exist yet 😂
The importance of Hakata Wan in Fukuoka is profound in the history of Japan.
The great samurai..I respect so much,from🇳🇪🇳🇪🇳🇪🇳🇪
cool
I didn't know that marco polo reached all the way to Japan are you sure I'll research that factor great documentary!!!
I didn't say he reached Japan :)
Appreciate your video very much
The host voice is perfect. Tense.
Clearly Jin Sakai had been swiping left on the touchpad as the southern fleet neared.
lol
The Japanese were excellent intracoastal watermen. Most trade that occurred between the different Japanese provinces happened by sea and not land (Inland Japan is too damn rugged to realistically move large amounts of trade items). Japanese traders also sailed as far south modern day Indonesia, which they could comfortably do without loosing sight of land for very long. Blue water navigation was a different story though. Only the Polynesians and Europeans were much good at it.
Archaeologists have found Indonesian ships that suggest they once had the most powerful fleet of the Indian ocean, the seas of the Philippines, Malaysia and other eastern seas.
@wesleybarton3871 There are still whole tribes of people that live nomadically on the sea in that part of the world.
I am Polynesian and very proud of my ancestors exploration and colonization of the Pacific Ocean. Rapa Nui was the beginning of the world in the Southeast. The Northwest Kaena point on Oahu (Hawaii) is the nexus to the underworld. There is only an isolated satellite tracking station. Spooky 👻 around there.
@@davidkamaunu7887wait colonization? My college professor told me that’s why I should feel guilty about being white.
@@gregkosinski2303 then he had a very limited knowledge of the world before European sailors “discovered” it for their masters. He probably didn’t know that Islamic missionaries were the first to make contact with the inhabitants of the Philippines and Indonesian islands. Not the Spanish or Portuguese.
Mongol failed invasion of Dai Viet, a modern day Vietnam. They couldn't invade Vietnam. They invaded Japan, but ten and thousands of them died because of Tsunami. That was a failed invasion too.
They also failed to invade India!
@@lellamas2778Africa as well. Whole the Mongols were some of the greatest warriors/conquerors of history, they weren't invincible. I like how in this video he mentions that the Mongols had some extraordinary successes but also equally extraordinary failures as well.
I liked Mongol. He was the best part of "Blazing Saddles" 👍🏿
From childhood I learned of Genghis Khan as a cruel invader. You have explained it rightly today. Thanks.
There have been recent discoveries that the ships mongols got after the conquest of China have been in a very rough shape, which made them quite vulnerable to bad weather
The Mongols are scary but samurais are even scarier
🤣 what lol, they were loosing to the mongols. Nature was the factor, It was even said that mongols found it amusing when a samurai shots their whistle arrows while announcing their clan, title, and name . The Mongols found it utterly retarded and fired a volley of arrows back at the samurai 😂
look i get it, finding the mon of the early hojo is like impossible, but using later hojo mon detracts from your video. probally should have used genji cause they were still technically in charge
Agree. However I was limited by open source art as I am no artist :( maybe in the future as channel grows I can hire a small team.
On 1951I was sent to served at Tokyo then was sent to Seoul and later served at Pusan south Korea from 1951-53 was decorated with Medals of United Nations medal,sharp shooter medal, Ambassador For Peace Medal.
Hello, Have you read thew Beshitun Inscription and Ctesias' works??
Yes :) Why?
@@YoreHistory to hope that you will detail how the Medes took control on other Iranic Peoples
@@diegoragot655 I think after I finish the Sassanids/Ottomans I will do more Bronze age ie Assyria and then Medes etc..not sure yet need to finish these other series off first.
@@YoreHistory And have you read things of George Rawlinson, "Logos Medickos" at j stor and the article "The Medes dark Age" in the internet?
There is a memoir written at the time which has been translated into English called The Confessions of Lady Nijo, who was a concubine at the Japanese Court during the period of these attempted invasions. While I don't believe it has any information on the invasions, it does present a detailed account of court life at the time, and is well worth reading.