The Evolution of the Samurai (Bushi) Through Japanese History
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Even the Samurai, or more accurately, bushi, are not immune to the tides of time. Their role and equipment had always evolved according to the needs of the time.
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Which time period's samurai do you want to be?
I'd be in the Late Heian Period Genpei War, Kamakura period and fight off the Mongols in the Shogun's army, and the early Muromachi Period
Can you do video on some of less talked dynasty of china and great people of that time like .. sima Jin .. Liu song .. then song dynasty .. and mainly northern and southern dynasties .. I want to know about about those. . so please 🙏🙏
@@Lordof956 🇲🇳⚔🇵🇹🇯🇵
@Yayoi Kisaragi 🇲🇳⚔🇵🇹✝️
Edo, I don’t have to fight in wars
"What is your occupation?"
"I am a proto-samurai!"
"What is a samurai?"
"I have no idea, it hasn't been invented yet..."
The thing is depending on each time period, the hairstyle is different as well. The famous Japanese haircut shown in the video is only popularized during the Edo period. Previous eras of samurai didn't really fully shave their hair like that.
the best time to be a samurai is simultaneously the worst time to be samurai
True lol check out Rurouni Kenshin how they were treated as trash.. xD
the edo period?
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@@danshakuimo hmmm in terms of profitability, yes
But in terms of high risk high reward, before the Edo period (the Sengoku period)
I heard the Emishi were pretty good archers, heard about a prince of theirs that could rip both of your arms off with a shot of an arrow, he also frolics with strange girls from the wilderness raised by giant wolves.
"Anime was a mistake." ~ Hayao Miyazaki
Lol! Just kidding! It's on my top 3. After Laputa & Whispers of the Wind.
Was it mononoke??? I saw a Linfamy video on that one
This is one of my new favorite channels.
You have researched very well, your explanation is concise and animation is good too.
I love this channel!
By far, the best video of this subject, congrats
A very great history channel. So on point with many aspects of Japanese history. I was sold when you brought up bushido and stated exactly what it is. Shows you truly did your homework.
Why is the Shikoku island not Japanese territory (the pink region)? 0:47 Shikoku was one of the regions that were ruled by the Yamato government even before the Nara period.
You should have more subscribers.. your contend is top quality!
I have been watching this channel for a couple of weeks now. I really like this and appreciate the content. Well made. Salamat👍
Normal people : Job seeker, unemployment
Weeb : RONIN
"So; you've been hit by the Isekai truck . . "
"Kazuma des."
+2 Otaku Internets Still laughing.
"Virtually all cultures [that existed for more than a season] throughout history have their own warriors".
Indus valley civilization was truly civilized. No warriors, no wars. And that's why they were already ancient history by the times of Caesar and Liu Bang.
@@longyu9336 nah that's not how civilization works, warrior specialization is not a prerequisite to defense, and the Harappans definitely had defense
@@longyu9336 Well then they got crushed by Aryans and Mongols...
Violence has ruled this world for a very long time. We have now followed it to it's logical extreme and ruled by the most violent, scheming and pathologically greedy.
I really like your animation!
Your videos are incredible! Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
Pretty informative video
Excellent content my Asian bros and CJ! Cheers from Zagreb, Croatia ,.-)
You got a like the second you mentioned an "isekai truck".
True men of culture.
Truck-kun!
I have found my people
In other word it is similar to today, there are the Federal government got the civil servant body and warrior body. And during war time military's status rise and during peace time their status drop.
Warring States Period because it's awesome!
Lol you would also be the most hated samurai by common folks throughout Japanese history
@@nehcooahnait7827 Why? They did fight actual wars instead of being parasites in peacetimes, it was their golden hour after the Mongol invasions.
Awesome video!
Oh hey! I love your channel too.
I must say. You’re probably my favorite history youtube channel. Finally a non euro centric non biased asian history channel guy. Subscribed!
Yeah your phrasing is kinda weird dude...
Metatron is also a great channel that properly researches Japanese history (sadly not much else Asian stuff)
@@user-pj1ec5om5g Metatron is mostly about Rome which is good, he's Italian.
@@longyu9336 also Japan, in which he’s very accurate
@@user-pj1ec5om5g I've seen his pre samurai video (I think as far back as the Jomon I think if not the yayoi)
The sound "eeeh" very good lol
Fancy seeing you here CJ Leung. I know you from teaching me to play Call of Cthulhu haha. You’ve taught me a lot!
The samurai said the worst thing to happen to a samurai is to become one in their next life.
The music in this is gorgeous, I'd love to hear it on its own
The guy popping up and making that eeeehh sound when he sees something bad or scary happening is hilarious! 😂😂
Fantastic video, great art style. Love it! Keep it up!
Although Sengoku period is cool and dramatic. I certainly dont want to be in that period. I would chose the Edo period. Though I am worried that I might not get any sufficient jobs other than convoy guards or shoemaking.
I would probably chose Edo too, but hopefully I'll end up with a decent government job like some former samurai did. I think it would be fun to see the modernization of Japan firsthand.
@@danshakuimo you don't most samurai that can become grovernment offical come from rich family background with very high self-talent and education
I can't believe the amount of production that went into this video. Great work. I love this channel!
I love your videos! I'm so glad that I subscribed to your channel, I will tell 10 people i know to subscribe to your channel
Thank you!
Although I quite enjoyed your video, I have some criticisms. Zen Buddhism undoubtedly had a great impact on Japanese culture (including Martial culture), but many famous Samurai didn't identify as Zen Buddhists at all. In the Heike Monogatari, for example, the most prominent form of Buddhism is Amidism, including the practice of the Nenbutsu. Secondly: Yes, "Bushido" as a fixed code of honor is of course a thing of the Edo period. However, certain common Bushido traits (like loyalty, bravery etc) have been an integral part of Samurai legends since the 12th century.
I love the isekai truck part 😂
Wtf that is a fantastic opening
I wish I could train with the bushi of the sengoku jidai. Practical martial training, very few if any ceremony.
So Samurai only were Taught their Folk Religion of Shinto and the Classics of Confucius before the Mongol Invasion?
Why does the Sengoku Samurai get all the Spotlight in Pop Culture?
There are far more popular warriors as well as being the main reason for why Japan closed off from the rest of the world.
Isn't that when the did the most fighting?
Knights as martial culture went extinct centuries ago, but the Europeans "discovered" Japan with the Samurai warrior culture largely intact, it fascinated them very much and they went popular really quickly.
Them having beaten the Mongols and looking absolutely fabolous compared to the drab and bland early knights also helped.
Wow that really helps in theorising why Chinese armor for infantry seems so lightly armored now in comparison to the samurai. China's Mass infantry system vs more specialized Japanese troop classes. Geography also really made a difference in how the Samurai dominated mountainous Japan vs the Scholar bureaucrat admin governing a more diverse and massive fertile geography of China.
not every samurai can afford fancy heavy armor though, realistically their normal infantry would have little to no armor, the big fancy heavy armor are only worn by high ranking samurai. if you compare to chinese high ranking officer at the same period japanese armor looks pretty outdated and inferior really.
little disappointed shields were not covered in the proto or early era
四国が日本から外れてるのはなんでだろう～
後半でちゃんと塗れてるからなんだろう
北関東、東北の蝦夷はわかるけど四国は平安時代でもとっくに朝廷の下にありそうですよね。
Edo samurai of course. No war, good status (most of them) and many nights at Yoshiwara!
As long its not the Gintama version of the yoshiwara.
cunning little pervert~~~~but I like the idea lol.
One question. Was there any sexually transmitted disease at that era?
@@chamwae3572 Siphilis probably
Subscribed from Linfamy. A friend of his is a friend of mine.
Sengoku seems pretty cool, just because of the euro-japanese fusion of armor - but I would probably pick post mongol because you get classic weapons and tons of respect.
You just defended your homeland against the scourge of God, the Mongols. It does not get any better than this.
I chose Red - Sengoku Samurai
Serving some daimyo for a time, then backstab him and become daimyo myself. Then fight other daimyo and become Shogun, then go conqueror China.
@@CamadaGovr Except it did, Ming was weak af at that times.
Your subbordinates can backstab you too though
bad new for you each daimyo alway have two # group of samurai atleast to watch each other back . just in case somebody gonna pull this shit
I thought Samurai are supposed to be loyal unlike Praetorian backstabbers
@@longyu9336 Nope. Samurai are just Praetorian Guard but on steroid.
Disclaimer: not an expert. merely a fantasy writer with an abiding interest in feudal Japan.
My Conversations With a Dragon (unpublished) describes my ideal of the Bushi/Gosho Zamurai. In it, I envision a squad centered around one mounted nobleman (Daikyu and Naginata or tetsubo) and his retainers. A second noble (probably a third son lesser status) is his right hand: a specialist swordsman. Serving them are two Yarimen/bearers (one for the sword case and the other carrying the bow case), and a third man, the herald/scrounger/gopher.
The horse isn't for riding, cowboy-like, across the American plains. It's a towing vehicle for the Archer suitable for the Japanese countryside. He uses it as a pack animal and, rather than riding it, using its strength and stability over uneven ground to help haul himself up the hills and river banks.
In my iteration the center of the unit is the archer. The others are his protection and bearers. When he's out of arrows the squad withdraws.
This allows me the luxury of giving the lie to those who believe there was no need for a noble to issue a challenge on the battlefield. There most certainly was. And why the ancient fights between Genji and Taira did not generate huge casualty counts. Large lines of movable mantlets protecting foot soldiers and commanders, while armed nobleman headed squads roamed no man's land, looking for trophy heads.
Not a bad premise and likely more realistic of the countless skirmishes than the grander set-piece battles that survive time.
So this is why you haven't posted on "Don't Stop Thinking" for so long!!!
Hey, welcome! Lol!
@@CoolHistoryBros Thank you! I loved you "murder hobos" video 😂
The best time to be a samurai was no time, being a samurai would have sucked.
The best time to be a samurai would be after they technically stopped existing, so you can impress your weeb friends without having to do any actual samurai things.
Jokes aside, both of my college freshman year roommates were descended from samurai. While technically they aren't really samurai, I thought it still increased their coolness that they were descended from them.
@@danshakuimo haha I agree, being a descendant of samurai is about as cool as you can get.
I choose boshin war era and buddy up with sakamoto ryoma to create the japanese republic
You get hit by a truck
Me and the boys: what the hel-
But your getting Reanimated as a samurai
Me and the boys: 4:14
But you have to find out which periodt you are from
Me and the boys what the hel-
But i will explain it deal
Truck-kun 😆😆
Time travel count as isekai? Was Heian the better era compare to the Sengoku Period?
lol , truck-kun did again
remember the age of knights.... samurais are the japanese version
no shit
Not really… not every warrior is a foreign knight dude
@@aaroncutler6383 hahahaha obviously you dont know anything about them
@@homerdada5533 neither do you if you refer to samurai as Japanese knights. I’m sure I’m more educated in the samurai than you.
士 in China almost they talk about the scholar official. Martial art isn't really important. Basic of them just learn Confucious method. In Japan they are warrior just thank to Bakufu. The important military gorvernment.
"virtually all cultures have their own warriors"
laugh in roman soldier.
Laughs in English Sailor
None is my answer to your final question.
For me the Bushido. Was the Rules set by Hijikata for the Shinsengumi. But that's just cause of the romantisation of the Shinsengumi in popular Japanese media.
I choose Sengoku period. In the best of all possible worlds, I’m a William Adams character; knocking back sake with Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga and 💩 talking all the other countries and religions. Then we introduce Sensha-dō.
I just noticed the O-sode(shoulder guard) had a "x o x o"(hugs and kisses) design to it. Lol.
Nice work though. You deserve more subs.
Why does the narrator sound like Ronny Cheng?
where is the naginata???
Edo period, hatamoto...⛩️🗾
I have a isekai concept instead of a modern generic self insert a samurai is sent to a pseudo medieval magical Europe it would be interesting to see a actual warrior in the role of the hero what other isekai tropes you want is up to you.
Make a video about Jinyiwei, Ming dynasty imperial secret service
not precisely peaceful. the Edo period. Tokugawa domination was unchalenged but the samurai did see a lot of action, spionage forced resetlements,, assasinations, all you expect
So samurai of the Genpei War, weren't really Buddhists and adhered to Shinto and Confucianism got it
Banzaaaaaai
Before even picking a time period I do not want to be a samurai regardless of time period hec no, I would much rather be a peaceful local scholar who actually helps other people and society and possibly a scholar-official who can help other people in a bigger way by working hard in the gov't. Much more fulfilling, joyful, and respectable than being a samurai who lives for fighting and war and is absolutely brutal when fighting.
Samurai sometimes owned land. You could do a lot of good for locals by being a good leader and investing in the community.
You must not know a thing about samurai if you think that’s all they did. But of course you probably think so because the samurai were male. If they were female you’d say “oh such kind people I want to be samurai”
No, gender wouldn't change my opinion much. I'm not saying samurai were rubbish or anything in that negative regard, but rather that I would rather want to be something like a scholar official, where I would be able to serve my people and country in a much more efficient and stable way than I would be able to do as a samurai/bushi. Like Ealdy wrote, there were samurai throughout history (especially the period of warring states and then Tokugawa rule) who not only cared about their miltary campaigns and clan ambitions, but also made sure to take responsibility in caring for the people under their jurisdiction. But as the gov't system of the clans and shoguns itself were that of a loosely centralized military government (as opposed to a highly sophisticated, formalized, systematic, and centralized form of bureaucratic civil gov't like there existed in the various states of China and Korea such as Yuan, Ming, Qing, Koryo, & Joseon which were contemporary to the bushi of Japan), there are visible limits to how sufficiently ruling clans could govern and protect the welfare of their people. So in other words, even though I could definitely live as a benevolent, people-caring clan lord (daimyo) in let's say, the late warring states period (late 16th cen.), I would be highly limited in how well I would be able to care and govern for the people in my clan's territory due to a lack of a formalized system of central government, and the sad reality of the time which was that I would need to use most of my clan's resources towards my clan's miltary in order to defend against and even lead my clan into various miltiary campaigns.
For example, there was a clan lord (daimyo) who participated in the Imjin war, (1592-1598) which was a major war against Joseon Korea and Ming China, and after the initial success in seizing control over the Korean capital Seoul, he, along with many other lords were now responsible for spreading throughout Korea and ruling over the Korean citizens of the individual provinces. This lord was known to be quite benevolent towards his commoner people back in Japan, but even he failed to gain the trust of the local citizens in Korea. How come? Yes, obviously he's one of the enemy generals who just brutally invaded their country, but also the governing policies of even that of the benevolent lord was tyrannical for the Joseon Korean citizen's standards. The tax rate he set was apparently around 40%, which for his ppl in Japan was better than most considering the warring conditions (need to gather many resources to support the clan military during almost constant war so thus the 40%), but was horrible for the Korean families who were living in a peaceful country with a tax rate of no more than 10% of their local production of various goods (mostly rice but also fruits, vegetables & precious non-edible items). The lord did not understand why the Koreans hated his rule despite his benevolent governance (according to his standards). He did not understand that the system of government and level of living standards (how much more stable and peaceful) the Koreans were living under were fundamentally different from that of most ppl in Japan. So he was ineffective in successfully caring for the people in a normal, peaceful and stable society/environment despite trying his best. He and all the clan lords were used to a warring and unstable environment/society where their ability to care for the people was already limited from the start, whether they truly loved and cared for their people or not.
This is why, if I was given the choice to go back in history to be a bushi in whichever time period of samurai like CJ said in the video, I would not want to live as a samurai at all in the first place regardless of the time period. The relatively peaceful and stable Tokugawa Edo period would be my only feasible choice, but still not completely sure. I think the samurai/bushi are interesting to learn about, study, and look at in history, but it would not be as good if I was to live as one.
'ight I just wrote and published a UA-cam comment essay at 11 at night that I did not have to do at all but is passionate about it enough to do it anyway 😆😅
@@yaleyoon6856 Jesus Christ I’m not reading that
Yeah I was thinking I wrote too much lol. Anyways, just know that I don't think negatively about the samurai as a history and culture, but I do think negatively about their way of life and I would not want to actually live as a samurai/bushi. Yeah okay I'm done fr now
Edo for sure
Hey there, do you have an email or facebook you can be contacted at?
It's in the description section.
But the armor shows similarity with the armon Japanese wore during the Yayoi period. The period when the Japanese didn't have much contact with Chinese
I know you meant to say it but tanegashima was an arquebus, the Japanese couldn’t produce muskets because they took too long.
なんで四国外れてんの？
arquebus not musket
Definitely wanna lock eyes with musashi, put me in 1712
I prefer the late Edo period (Bakumatsu). More contact with Westerners, guns and better clothings.
Just dont explicitly express affinity with christianity. Otherwise there will be prosecution
@@chamwae3572 Wasn't only a real issue the during the Tokugawa shougunate? In the Edo period, well at least the meiji restoration/modernization era being Christian was probably more OK.
There were guns in nagashino during the sengoku period. Plus the samurai barely existed in the late edo period, just a heads up.
post-mongol, no guns
7:24 , What about this is pure ego? I don't understand why a craftsman wanting to sign his work makes him egotistical. If nobody is even going to see it with the hilt parts on, then it seems more like sensible modesty, to me. Signing your own name in gold however, that I believe is a bit excessive (but not all smiths did that).
I thought Seii Taishogun meant " "commander in chief(not general) of the expeditionary force against the barbarians"
It really depends on how it is translated. Shogun literally means general and the "dai" means big. Some some people translate it as great general. Functionally, the Shogun position in Japan means commander in chief.
If the title is translated for function, then "commander in chief" would be used. If you go for literal translation, some would just use "great general".
As a Chinese guy, the title 征夷大將軍 means "The supreme general who conquers the barbarians" to me literally.
edo
how about the kamikazi pilots
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhh.......
You are crazy too but call Ashigaru and Bushi with fail
Buddhism originates from India. Knowledge about certain technology (which was later changed) was imported via (through) other countries, so it did not all originate in said countries. Nearly half of Chinese history had non-Chinese rulers and dynasties such as Manchu, Mongols, Jurchen, Khitan, Xianbei, Xiongnu or Hun. The dynasties often had aristocrats, royalty and scholars in the top of society, not warriors. Scholars were valued higher than warriors in China. The opposite was in Japan where the warrior class ruled for many centuries. These warriors (samurai) were the real rulers of the land, not the royalty or aristocracy. Japan stopped sending emissaries to Tang also because Japan was one of the few countries that refused to be subservient to Chinese dynasties. Bushido in its earliest forms existed in the kamakura period, but it was not called that. It is simply the way of the warrior (the way of the samurai) which changed through the centuries. There were different types and interpretations. It still exists and is used to various degrees Today.
Terrible accent
Evolution of Samurai:
1200s : women beater
1300s : women beater
1400s : women beater
1500s : women beater
1600s : women beater
1700s: women beater
1800s : women beater
1900s : women beater
2000s : women beater
Awfull pronounciation of japanese terms. Please stick to chinese history and leave Japan alone!