Hi 武勇伝, I’m a Japanese🇯🇵. I don’t know why but UA-cam recommended me this video today and I watched it. I really like it. The topics are interesting and your explanation is easy to understand. The subtitle is also wonderful for me, non native English speakers, because it helps me understanding and it is prepared by you(human, not automatically generated)😊 It’s amazing that you read so many Japanese books written in Japanese! I learned about Japanese history in junior/senior high schools with such textbooks in 2002 to 2008. There may have been several updates since then. It’s very interesting and surprising for me that 32% of the people had lived to be 65 or older (in 14:02) 😳!!! My hometown has a lot of pieces of Jomon-Doki (pottery) in underground even now, because people were living here in Jomon era. We have a small museum of Jomon-Doki in my city. It’s good but sometimes it’s not good; When someone want to build a new building, if they find something related to history during the boring(digging) survey, they have to stop the construction and wait until the history survey is finished. One of such places has been under the history survey for more than 10 years. They have been saying that it will be a shopping mall for 10 years but we gave up looking forward to it lol
Hey! Thanks for watching. I'm glad to hear that the explanations were easy to understand. I watch a lot of stuff in Japanese, so I understand the ありがたさ of accurate subtitles (haha). It's amazing how much history is buried around Japan, isn't it? There's a Jomon museum close to where I live too (I live in Japan, by the way 😊), and it was also built after Jomon remains were discovered during a construction project. I hope you get your shopping mall though! 10 years is a long time to wait... ご視聴ありがとうございました！よかったら他の動画もぜひご覧ください😊
I remember my first encounter with Dogū/Jomon figurine is from Doraemon: the Birth of Japan. Shogunate era is cool, but prehistoric era intrigued me more. Instant subscribe from me ❤️
Doraemon sounds like an excellent way to get into history 😊 Thank you for the sub! I'm hoping we'll eventually make it back to the Jômon period for another video at some point... It's a very cool and underrated era.
I want to thank you greatly for putting this video and, by extention, this series together. It's been really difficult to find many resources online that explain, explore, and teach the early periods of Japan in English (I am slowly learning Japanese but not yet able to read textbooks), it's as if in English speaking countries nothing happened before the Sengoku period and onwards to some people. Thanks so much, I'll probably watch all of this in one day!
So far it has been a labor of love! I definitely understand the sentiment that pre-Sengoku history is underrepresented -- even here in Japan, the Sengoku and Bakumatsu eras tend to get disproportionate attention. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the series!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory It definitely shines through that it's labour of love, they're incredibly well researched and produced, and I hope you keep uploading videos! I am somewhat surprised to learn that but I suppose some periods of history being favoured over others happens no matter where you are. I enjoyed it a lot thanks! Can't wait to see the next part!
1. I recognized Kinokunya Shinjuku japanese history shelf (English) in one of your photo! 2. For those who want to read history book from japanese high school, one was translated in English (also a word history) look for the legendary orange cover of these books! (Title: Japanese history for high school). 3. People outside Japan don't realize how pre historical period are popular here. Was so surprised to discover so many parks, exhibitions or sites dedicated to Jomon or Yayoi. Some discoveries are covered by TV... I would love that passion and knowledge for prehistorical time in Europe.... 4. Thanks for the the serie!
ATTENTION: For anyone wondering about the theory of the Jomon people’s ancestors coming from Southeast Asia, I am posting several links here where you can read about this theory in English or Japanese. There are several theories regarding this issue, but the Southeast Asia theory is one of the major ones, so whether you agree with it or not, please be aware that 1) I did not just make it up/mistranslate it, and 2) it is not some piece of faulty information from a bad source. That being said, I do not really have a personal stake in this debate -- this theory just happened to be the one listed in one of my sources (テーマ別だから理解が深まる日本史). At the time of making this video, I was honestly not aware of how unresolved the issue was, and it's therefore something I hope to explore more in-depth in another video someday! www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase/advpub/0/advpub_201215/_pdf/-char/ja www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/latest-research/59409 www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01162-2 (this link complicates the issue a bit, but it at least touches on the theory a lot) www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geriatrics1964/30/11/30_11_923/_pdf (Japanese) www.shinrinbunka.com/news/pickup/15508.html (Japanese) The Southeast Asia theory seems to have really been pushed by the anthropologist Hanihara Kazurô (埴原和郎), who based it on years of skeletal analyses, and whose theory was basically the mainstream theory for quite a long time (hence why it's in one of my source books). Newer research does seem to be showing that things are probably more complicated than we thought, with the ancestors of the Jomon actually coming to Japan from a number of places, including Southeast, East, and Northeast Asia, and then mixing after their arrival -- a theory which I unintentionally hinted at in one of the map illustrations I used! Anyway, please absolutely feel free to discuss the issue amongst yourselves here - it is certainly an interesting topic to debate over - but I will probably not respond to any more comments regarding it, as I will just be repeating myself.
Two clarifications: 1) The "Yamatai, also known as Yamato" comment at the end should not be taken to mean that Yamatai is the same as the Yamato kingdom (大和政権) that emerged in the Kofun period! "Yamato-no-kuni" is just an alternate reading for "Yamatai-koku" (邪馬台国), but they are (probably) distinct entities. 2) Jomon residences, "tate-ana jûkyo" (竪穴住居), ought to be translated into English as "pit dwellings." I'm not sure why I added the "post-in-ground" part. They do have posts which go down a few centimeters into the ground, but this is not really part of the fundamental definition, nor is it reflected in the original Japanese word. Please just call them "pit dwellings" or "pit houses" if you're ever, I don't know.... talking about them with friends at the bar or something. Sorry for any confusion!
There is a good couple of Japanese history materials out there, but I am definitely not embellishing when I say that Yours strikes this perfect and definitely hard to achieve balance between engaging and informative. The idea of using books from standard curriculum is simply genius, too. I've started from Heian and ended with Muromachi, so now it's time to brush up on the last videos I haven't listened to yet. Thank you so much, and can't wait for next episode!!!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory All the notification bells have been rung, every single video has been watched - I'll be sure to put the next episode on the very moment it's posted!
Nice video. Im japanese and just started to study to be a licensed english translator which required a lot of knowledge on japanese history. Your video will be a great help. Thanks
The Indigenous Australians in the Sydney area also performed tooth extraction as part of an initiation ritual for young men, I didn’t know this was done in Japan top!
4:44 - to offer a minor correction/clarification, the entire Pleistocene epoch wasn't renamed to the Chibanian. The Chibanian (formerly known as the Middle Pleistocene, as the on-screen text correctly states) was an age within the Pleistocene, specifically the mid-late Pleistocene. The entire Pleistocene began about 2.58mya and ended just 11,700 years ago.
My intention was to correct that with the onscreen text, but I probably should have just re-recorded it. No subs, happy to get a couple dozen views... the stakes were lower when I made this episode!
Thanks so much for making these! I know it's been a long time but do you think the ritualistic destruction of the jomon pottery dolls could possibly be a substitute for human sacrifice? I know that's a leap in logic, but the idea occurred to this hillbilly
Looks like a nice series, good lenght and density of information. Can't wait to dive in further. Plus for a japanese learner, getting an eye on all those kanjiz is a valuable ressource to say the least. Thank you for the great work !
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it! Yeah, learning the actual Japanese words and characters for a lot of these historical concepts is really valuable for gaining a deeper understanding of them and retaining them better, I think. On the flip side, though, it does take a good deal of additional effort (haha)
I'm drawn to everything pre-historic. Jomon history is right up my alley! The mystery will haunt me forever! I hope we learn more of these early peoples...
Well done, really informative. This unique approach of textbook scans as the source is effective as well. I have a special request: I can’t hear voices very well and rely on the subs. Can you work on the subs to make sure they’re accurate or are you already doing that? Much appreciated and onto watching your next video!
Hello Carlos! Thanks for watching and for the kind words. The subs for this video should be accurate, as I uploaded my original script, but did you notice anything that seemed off? If so I will definitely attempt to fix it. I have not uploaded my script/subs for the second video yet, but I will get on doing that ASAP.
As a homeschooling parent who is determined to give my child a real global overview of pre-history (i.e., not the general textbook notion that civilization started in the Mediterranean basin and nothing important or worthwhile happened anywhere else until the middle ages), I am so grateful for this video! (I was so mad when I learned that there was a culture in Japan that arose THOUSANDS of years before Mesopotamia that had complicated pottery and a way of life that was rich and complex! I had never learned this and I really hate the idea that pre-history tends to be taught as “everything that led to the rise of the Roman Empire,” which is really just a way of centering Europe in history.) Anyway, sorry for the tangent, and dōmo arigatō! You’re a hero.
It's good that you are doing that, but the Mesopotamian civilization was the first actual civilization. Of course there were people all around the globe having tools and such. But the first ever human civilization were the Mesopotamian civilizations. These UA-cam history videos that teach history are great, but if I were you I wouldn't be using them as my main source. Try finding books about ancient civilizations. These videos are great, but taking them as fact and using them as substitute for serious education is not something to be proud of.
Your comment is both patronizing and full of incorrect assumptions about many things-both my curriculum and history itself. Rather than judging and attempting to shame me, perhaps you should ask questions first next time.
@@saturninefeline6063 I'm sorry if I came out a bit mean with the "something to be proud of". I shouldn't have included that little part. But I think my comment still stands. I don't see anything historically wrong with my comment. You did say that there was a culture in japan that arose thousands of years before any Mesopotamian culture. Which is just not true. I have somehwhat negative opinions about homeschooling, but I won't judge. To each his own and many homeschool curiculums end up being better. Why are you using another account?
Hi, Thank you for this channel. I am now teaching Social Studies in English (primarily to Japanese High Schoolers), and your work helped me explain several nuances.
Thanks for doing these videos in such detail, I live in Iwate where there is many Jomon sites and it’s a period that I research and very interested in. I’m glad to see a English video about it that is factual and in-depth on UA-cam.
Pretty informative. Well done. Agree with the monotone voice comment. My Question is if humans existed in Japan 40,000 years ago & the Jomon period started 16,000 years ago, what happened? Did a new people arrive & displace the original or is it just a name for a period of time after the original ppl began to make pottery?
16,000 years ago seems to be the point where a distinctly recognizable culture began to emerge, with that culture being most clearly represented in the pottery (but including plenty of other aspects as well). So, it was the same people living there, but they had finally reached a point of daily life stability where they could afford to begin allowing things like art and religious beliefs to take on a greater significance in their lives. I’ve changed up my narration style a bit in my newer videos, so hopefully those will be more to your liking 🤞
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Thx for ur reply. All clear now. Ur narration has improved, but he energy u have at the start soon fades. Also u may want to leave some extra time between sentences, especially when a new topic (paragraph) begins. Gr8 job. Gambate
@@dancook8733 Yeah, I record everything in one go, so I get pretty tired by the end (haha). Perhaps I should break the recording into several sessions to maintain my energy level. Anyway, thank you for the feedback! I will be keeping it in mind as I make the newer videos 👍 I hope you'll continue to watch!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory I visited Japan in 2018 after taking some beginner Japanese courses which was always something I wanted to do since I was a kid. I wish I had your video series before I visited; it's puts into context a lot of the places I saw!
@@tmate88-j8y I understand the feeling -- I've been to Kyoto twice, but both times were quite a while ago, before I was really heavily studying Japan's history. I can't wait to go back knowing what I know now!
Thank you for posting these....What would be the top five-seven recommendations for developing a good overview of Japanese history readily available in print and in English?
Sadly I do nearly all of my history reading in Japanese (keeps up my language abilities in a nice two birds/one stone-type of way) but the Oxford History of Japan comes to mind as a nice English-language info source! (Fair warning, it is a bit dense, though.)
I have come across 'the tooth pulling ritual" before historically in Africa where it was done because of the prevalence of. Tetanus or "Lockjaw'. It enabled milk and soup to be fed to the afflicted through a rolled up leaf. Is there any evidence of tetanus being prevalent in this area?
Hiii, I read a lot about the Jomon period but I also learned a lot of new things from your video, it was really helpfull and add interesting things into the discussion. I really liked the fun facts like the god hand archeologist. My sources said that the people from Jomon period nearly survived, were always bellow their nutrition necessities, and was nice to hear other take on this.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Yeah, it looks like newer research from the 2000s on has begun to show that Jomon lifespans were longer than we thought. That being said, I’m sure it was still far from a cakewalk!
Massive fan of this series - thank you for putting these together :) Could I please ask what the song is that is being played during the "Paleolithic Period" chapter of the video? Looking forward to the new videos as you can :)
Great video! (^-^) The theory that the Jomon people came from Southeast Asia, however, is a bit incomplete, in my opinion. The Ainu people who are descendants of Jomon people have some Caucasian traits (some historians even go as far as to refer to them as entirely belonging to the Caucasian race). That means that many migrated not only from the Southeast, but also from Northeast Asia as well.
I think you are absolutely correct, and I honestly wish I had researched this point a bit more thoroughly, rather than just accepting the information in my books (which was rather scant on this point) at face value. I hope to do a future video specifically on the origin of the Jomon people someday so that I can give the topic the nuanced exploration that it deserves. Thank you for watching!
Yes! I’m sorry, it took me like four episodes to catch on to this being an issue, but the newer episodes (#5 onward) should have a better music/narration ratio 😅
So very appreciative of this channel. I find Japanese history extremely intriguing, as well as its culture. With only being a Freshman student, I have much more to learn, and your content allows me to look forward to learning more about Japanese history. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, friend! :)
ah yes thanks for making this video. I got pretty interested in fuedal japan around 8th century and was trying to find more info on dates further back. This is great brain food
I always enjoy reading and learning about old Asian cultures, mostly due to my fascination with samurai and ninjas (i thank naruto for that). Im going to enjoy keeping tabs on your channel so i can educate myself
thank you so much for your work! i’ve been looking for an accurate source of information on ancient/imperial japan history that wasn’t too complicated for an amateur!
My pleasure! It can definitely be a tough subject to get into, so if I’m making that even a little easier then I’m achieving what I set out to do! Thanks for watching 😁
Jomon, haplogroup D, are tied to Tibetans and Southeast Asia. Okinawa shows some austronesian influences, and the ancient Hayato and Kumaso people were austronesian. Ainu were different. They probably came from siberia ..
Awesome series! Thank you for the comprehensive playlist! Only one thing: What's the name of the intro song. I swear i've heard it somewhere before, but can't find it 😂
Did you mix the information up? Yayoi people came from the Korean peninsula and Jomon are likely from northern Asia, and given the appearance of both groups I'd say that makes a lot more sense. Also the blending of the two groups is debatable, once the Yayoi appear we see a gradual yet complete replacement of Jomon culture with their own not a blending of the two, so it seems the Yayoi completely dominated and either eradicated or absorbed the Jomon completely both culturally and genetically. If this was not a mistake on your part I think this may be a case of revisionist history I have heard of being an issue with a lot of Japanese textbooks.
This is actually the second comment I've gotten regarding this, so I have double-checked my sources, but the information I presented in this video is indeed what is written in my sources (at least the ones which touch on this topic -- Tema Betsu and Yamakawa Nihonshi, the latter being a book I started using from ep. 3). If you attempt to research the issue a bit online, I think you will pretty quickly see that the idea of the Jomon people genetically originating in Southeast Asia is one of the leading contemporary theories, although it is certainly neither the only theory nor a settled issue. I will link a couple sources here which discuss it: ( www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase/advpub/0/advpub_201215/_pdf/-char/ja ) ( www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/latest-research/59409 ) I think probably the most important quote from the former link regarding why this information is in so many books is as follows: “Although many different models for explaining the origins of Japanese people have been proposed (Nanta, 2008), the ‘dual-structure’ model proposed by Hanihara (1991) has been considered the primary working hypothesis for three decades. […] Hanihara also suggested that Jomon people entered the Japanese archipelago around the Upper Paleolithic period and originated from Southeast Asia, whereas Yayoi people originated from North Asia and migrated to mainland Japan around 300 BCE.” I will definitely admit that this theory is fiercely debated, and if (when?) I remake this video eventually I would very much like to discuss the other major theories (such as the North Asian one) in more depth. Regarding the Yayoi people: yes, they primarily came to Japan from the Korean Peninsula, and I discuss this in the next episode. The Korean Peninsula is technically in Northeastern Asia, and moreover the Korean people (and thus the Yayoi People) seem to have their origin point farther north (Mongolia/Siberia). Here is a Japanese paper from 1993 which discusses the origin of the Yayoi People ( www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geriatrics1964/30/11/30_11_923/_pdf ), and here is a 2020 paper (in English) discussing the Korean people’s partially Russian roots ( academic.oup.com/gbe/article/12/5/553/5812782 ). During their sections on the Yayoi and Kofun periods, all of the books I use quite clearly discuss the coming of the Koreans (and to a smaller extent, Chinese) and the massive impact they had on ancient Japan (and I think I convey this in my videos on those periods), so this is definitely not a case of historical revisionism. I don’t think this is actually nearly as big of a problem in modern (21st century) Japanese textbooks as it is rumored to be. As for the blending of the groups, my books simply do not really discuss how the Jomon and Yayoi peoples interacted. They put the vast majority of their emphasis on explaining how lifestyles changed, rather than how ethnic makeups evolved. The first paper I linked there mentions the “10% Jomon ancestry of present-day Japanese nuclear genomes” as well as the “high frequency of the Y-chromosomal Jomon haplotype (~30%),” so they were not completely eradicated. Additionally, according to this NHK article ( www.nhk.or.jp/kaisetsu-blog/700/368219.html ), this 10% is based on a survey of people in the Tokyo area, and the percentage of Jomon ancestry in Okinawans (30%) and the Hokkaido Ainu (70%) is much higher. It seems that the leaders of the Yamato Government that eventually evolved into Japan’s imperial family and aristocracy were probably Yayoi people who came after the Jomon period, and their dominance in central Japan could have possibly lead to Yayoi DNA predominating in those regions. Anyway, I would honestly be pretty interested in finding out more about why the proportions of Yayoi and Jomon DNA in modern Japanese ended up the way they did. Sorry for the essay! I think I may post an abbreviated version of this at the top of the comment feed for anyone else wondering about the Southeast Asian origin point.
Jomon extraction still has some prevalence in the Ryukyu Islands and Hokkaido, namely in the Ainu and ethnic Ryukyuan. I am from Okinawa and I would say my face definitely has a Jomon leaning, though I definitely see admixture.
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory awesome! I knew I had herd it somewhere before, but I couldn't get it. Great work! Currently binging on your videos. I have a bunch of books on Japanese history, mainly in English and Spanish, but some periods are really just glossed over. Always wanted to have a good look into what the Japanese themselves read on history books. ありがとうございます！
Why did you study Japanese and what do you do for income while living in Japan? Do you have a blog/vlog at all? I studied Hiragana enough to almost be fluent enough in reading it and and pronouncing it but I have katakana and kanji and then vocabulary left to learn and I hope to become fluent enough to move to Japan and live there for some time. It would be cool if you're still there when/if I arrive there cause maybe we can drink a beer or coffee together
I never thought too hard about starting to study Japanese... I guess I wanted to live in Japan, and I thought being fluent in the language and being able to engage with locals in their own language would be cool. As for my income, I, like many other expats, eke out a meager living in the English education industry (haha). Thankfully, UA-cam has begun to give me at least a small trickle of pocket change to add to that recently. I would be happy to grab a beer or coffee if you ever make it up to Northern Japan! Good luck with your studies and potential move! (By the way, there's no need to wait till you're fluent before coming -- combining a solid study regimen WITH actually living in the country is an excellent way to get good quickly.)
Ahhhh gracious. Thank you for the video. I have one small criticism. Please reduce the level of the music or remove it completely, since it close to the level of your voice.
It gets better in future videos! (Especially from the Nara Period onward.) I wasn’t great at sound mixing yet in these early videos but I (slowly) learned from everyone’s feedback.
The music gets a lot less intrusive in future videos! (It's still pretty in-your-face for the first few videos of the series though 😅 I was a UA-cam noob)
Nice, Good work...Hope you can get around to Lew Chew someday. People say it should Ryu-Kyu, but when Perry came and in his reports, he said that the people said Lew Chew, was this a dialect misunderstanding ? Anyways hope to hear something s about the Satsuma invasion of 1609 Thanks again
Interesting! I am not super familiar with the history of the Japan-Okinawa relationship yet but it is definitely something I want to study up on and maybe do a video on one of these days.
As far as I know, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tribute state of the Ming dynasty. Their language was influenced by the Chinese language a lot compared to other Japonic languages. Also, the word "Ryukyu" itself is pronounced exactly as "Lew Chew" in Classical Chinese (which is pronounced as "Ryukyu" in Japanese of course).
Two good books are Okinawa, The history of an Island people, (Tuttle) Easy to get Ancient Ryukyu : University of Hawaii Press@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Keep up the good work
I always tell people that,but they correct me and say Ryukyu and not Lew chew, but you can see it in the writings of the Perry expeditions as you must already know. @@tariz32
Very interesting. The music choice is questinable though. But I will tolerate it because of the content, even though it's kind of annoying. Edit: I just can't. Sorry.
"can you please edit the work you've done so that i personally can fall asleep while listening to all the hard work of writing and translation you've done?" what a rude thing to ask, actually
Do I remember well that the descendants of the Jomon people are most likely to be the indigenous Ainu, while the Yayoi are plausibly (linguistical) ancestors of modern Japanese?
From what I've read, Jomon DNA remains the most strongly in Okinawans and the Ainu of Hokkaido, as you said. However, it apparently still remains even in mainland Japanese at around a 10-20% level, so it's mixed in at a not-insignificant level. But yeah, the Yayoi people seem to have left their mark on modern Japan more strongly than the Jomon people.
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Well it is quite predictable that Jomon people (let's assume Ainu-speaking) were in their greater part assimilated by Yayoi, so that modern Ainu are surely only a minor part of what are the Jomon's genetical descendants; it happens literally all across the world that indigenous population takes the culture, identity and language of their less numerous invaders: such is the case with the modern Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian (and in some point in the past, Andalusian) Arabs, with southern Slavs, English nation and many many other. But returning to the Japanese case, I remember that first Japanese speakers are most likely to have come from Korean peninsula, and they are linked with so-called Mamun culture (1800 - 300 r. BCE or sth like that). And these time the ancestors of Koreans were living deeper inland, alongside Amur river close to Manchuria.
@@mareksagrak9527 Interesting, I hadn't heard of the Mamun culture. That's also a good point you make about indigenous populations absorbing the culture of newcomers/invaders. I hadn't really thought about it like that before in a wider world history context. I have a book that talks in depth about how the Jomon and Yayoi peoples mixed and how the Japanese language likely developed, but I haven't found time to read it yet. I'll have to get on that eventually, as it's a fascinating topic that I want to learn more about. When I do, perhaps I'll make another video going a bit more in-depth on the subject!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory A little correction, since I have remembered it bad, the name of this archeological culture was Mumun, not Mamun. :) The ethnogenesis of Coreans and Japanese people is indeed a very strange topic. Both of them spoke isolated languages, with no known relatives (as the Altaic theory trying to link them with Tungusic, Turkish and Mongolian (!) has failed a long time ago), which makes the case even more mysterious. And unlike the majority of isolated languages they are flourishing and not vanishing slowly in favour of more popular family groups like sino-tibetan or Indo-European which is also specific.
Is there any English textbook for Japanese history? I would like to learn Japanese history, but I can't find any English textbook for learning Japanese history before the shogunate period. If anyone could recommend a Japanese textbook which starts from the Paleolithic or Jomon period, it would be very helpful.
Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey by Mikoso Hane is a good one. The book details the premodern period spanning from the Jomon era until the Edo era in a comprehensive manner. Gina Barnes' State Formation in Japan and Protohistoric Yamato are exceptionally useful treatments for the ancient period. Both are hard to read. Most scholars in the field often consult her books.
Unfortunately the music makes this difficult to follow. The producer forgot that people with marginal hearing like most elderly have difficulty separating speech from the background noise. By the 8 minute mark I had a headache.
Is there a way I can message you to talk to you about some stuff I've been so fasanated with Japan more then any other country there history samurai culture art tattoos everything. I want to learn more about Shinto and there mythology because I'm a tattoo artist and love Japanese tattoos but I know the creatures all have meanings and tell story's but I can't seem to find out where to learn about them because I don't know japenses lol
To be honest with you, Japanese mythology is not my area of expertise, although I do find it very interesting and would love to try doing a video on it someday. If you have any specific questions, though, feel free to ask and I’ll see if I can find anything. You can just comment here, or you can hit me up at my Instagram account @mangabenkyo which I don’t really post on much anymore but I typically check once or twice a week.
It always annoys me when some people keep saying that Japanese war crimes need to be revealed. Like bro you’re in the Jomon period. Picking up specific events (in a span of a decade) of a nation that has more than two or three thousands of years of history is absurd. Bashing Japan is easy because it lost the war and gave up all rights to defend itself.
Lmao everyone of the countries where people say this have committed just as many atrocities against many other cultures with many being completely wiped off the face of the earth. To blame the sons for the sins of the fathers is absolutely absurd. That's not how we supposed operate in America, it's the land of second chances, hope and freedom. You wannna know how it became that? Mass genocide. Oh but Japan's gotta feel bad because they didn't pay enough for their crimes during WW2. I think the Japan of today is more than payment for the crimes they committed. I hate that short sighted, uneducated bs that's not meant to have an answer but meant to stoke a mob mentality.
Yesss, this is what I've been looking for. Everything else has either been too brief or told from a post-contact European perspective. Thank you!
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
Seriously, either they only cover Sengoku Jidai or they’re just too short
FOR FUCKIN REAL HOMIE! Love this dude and still have no idea how HE ONLY HAS 2,000 SUBS (at the time of writing) LIKE WTF
Yeah its really frustrating how when you look up ancient japan you get a bunch of material on like... The 1500$
@@apatheticattempt He has 483,000,000 subscribers now !
Hi 武勇伝, I’m a Japanese🇯🇵. I don’t know why but UA-cam recommended me this video today and I watched it.
I really like it. The topics are interesting and your explanation is easy to understand. The subtitle is also wonderful for me, non native English speakers, because it helps me understanding and it is prepared by you(human, not automatically generated)😊
It’s amazing that you read so many Japanese books written in Japanese!
I learned about Japanese history in junior/senior high schools with such textbooks in 2002 to 2008. There may have been several updates since then.
It’s very interesting and surprising for me that 32% of the people had lived to be 65 or older (in 14:02) 😳!!!
My hometown has a lot of pieces of Jomon-Doki (pottery) in underground even now, because people were living here in Jomon era. We have a small museum of Jomon-Doki in my city.
It’s good but sometimes it’s not good; When someone want to build a new building, if they find something related to history during the boring(digging) survey, they have to stop the construction and wait until the history survey is finished. One of such places has been under the history survey for more than 10 years. They have been saying that it will be a shopping mall for 10 years but we gave up looking forward to it lol
Hey! Thanks for watching. I'm glad to hear that the explanations were easy to understand. I watch a lot of stuff in Japanese, so I understand the ありがたさ of accurate subtitles (haha). It's amazing how much history is buried around Japan, isn't it? There's a Jomon museum close to where I live too (I live in Japan, by the way 😊), and it was also built after Jomon remains were discovered during a construction project. I hope you get your shopping mall though! 10 years is a long time to wait... ご視聴ありがとうございました！よかったら他の動画もぜひご覧ください😊
Which area in japan do you live !
@@sheilavil3244 I'm in the Tohoku area! Lots of history out here 😊
Construction in major European cities often get stopped for the same reason, though occassionally it's instead because a bomb was found.
I remember my first encounter with Dogū/Jomon figurine is from Doraemon: the Birth of Japan. Shogunate era is cool, but prehistoric era intrigued me more. Instant subscribe from me ❤️
Doraemon sounds like an excellent way to get into history 😊 Thank you for the sub! I'm hoping we'll eventually make it back to the Jômon period for another video at some point... It's a very cool and underrated era.
I want to thank you greatly for putting this video and, by extention, this series together. It's been really difficult to find many resources online that explain, explore, and teach the early periods of Japan in English (I am slowly learning Japanese but not yet able to read textbooks), it's as if in English speaking countries nothing happened before the Sengoku period and onwards to some people. Thanks so much, I'll probably watch all of this in one day!
So far it has been a labor of love! I definitely understand the sentiment that pre-Sengoku history is underrepresented -- even here in Japan, the Sengoku and Bakumatsu eras tend to get disproportionate attention. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the series!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory It definitely shines through that it's labour of love, they're incredibly well researched and produced, and I hope you keep uploading videos! I am somewhat surprised to learn that but I suppose some periods of history being favoured over others happens no matter where you are. I enjoyed it a lot thanks! Can't wait to see the next part!
1. I recognized Kinokunya Shinjuku japanese history shelf (English) in one of your photo!
2. For those who want to read history book from japanese high school, one was translated in English (also a word history) look for the legendary orange cover of these books! (Title: Japanese history for high school).
3. People outside Japan don't realize how pre historical period are popular here. Was so surprised to discover so many parks, exhibitions or sites dedicated to Jomon or Yayoi. Some discoveries are covered by TV... I would love that passion and knowledge for prehistorical time in Europe....
4. Thanks for the the serie!
ATTENTION: For anyone wondering about the theory of the Jomon people’s ancestors coming from Southeast Asia, I am posting several links here where you can read about this theory in English or Japanese. There are several theories regarding this issue, but the Southeast Asia theory is one of the major ones, so whether you agree with it or not, please be aware that 1) I did not just make it up/mistranslate it, and 2) it is not some piece of faulty information from a bad source. That being said, I do not really have a personal stake in this debate -- this theory just happened to be the one listed in one of my sources (テーマ別だから理解が深まる日本史). At the time of making this video, I was honestly not aware of how unresolved the issue was, and it's therefore something I hope to explore more in-depth in another video someday!
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase/advpub/0/advpub_201215/_pdf/-char/ja
www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/latest-research/59409
www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01162-2 (this link complicates the issue a bit, but it at least touches on the theory a lot)
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geriatrics1964/30/11/30_11_923/_pdf (Japanese)
www.shinrinbunka.com/news/pickup/15508.html (Japanese)
The Southeast Asia theory seems to have really been pushed by the anthropologist Hanihara Kazurô (埴原和郎), who based it on years of skeletal analyses, and whose theory was basically the mainstream theory for quite a long time (hence why it's in one of my source books). Newer research does seem to be showing that things are probably more complicated than we thought, with the ancestors of the Jomon actually coming to Japan from a number of places, including Southeast, East, and Northeast Asia, and then mixing after their arrival -- a theory which I unintentionally hinted at in one of the map illustrations I used!
Anyway, please absolutely feel free to discuss the issue amongst yourselves here - it is certainly an interesting topic to debate over - but I will probably not respond to any more comments regarding it, as I will just be repeating myself.
Two clarifications:
1) The "Yamatai, also known as Yamato" comment at the end should not be taken to mean that Yamatai is the same as the Yamato kingdom (大和政権) that emerged in the Kofun period! "Yamato-no-kuni" is just an alternate reading for "Yamatai-koku" (邪馬台国), but they are (probably) distinct entities.
2) Jomon residences, "tate-ana jûkyo" (竪穴住居), ought to be translated into English as "pit dwellings." I'm not sure why I added the "post-in-ground" part. They do have posts which go down a few centimeters into the ground, but this is not really part of the fundamental definition, nor is it reflected in the original Japanese word. Please just call them "pit dwellings" or "pit houses" if you're ever, I don't know.... talking about them with friends at the bar or something.
Sorry for any confusion!
There is a good couple of Japanese history materials out there, but I am definitely not embellishing when I say that Yours strikes this perfect and definitely hard to achieve balance between engaging and informative. The idea of using books from standard curriculum is simply genius, too. I've started from Heian and ended with Muromachi, so now it's time to brush up on the last videos I haven't listened to yet. Thank you so much, and can't wait for next episode!!!
Thank you for watching! I’m glad to hear you’ve enjoyed the series so much. I’ll do my best not to take another year on the next episode 😅
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory All the notification bells have been rung, every single video has been watched - I'll be sure to put the next episode on the very moment it's posted!
this channel is really helpfull lol. i love learning about history in different cultures and i love the way you break down everything:3
Thank you! Glad to be of service 😁
Nice video. Im japanese and just started to study to be a licensed english translator which required a lot of knowledge on japanese history. Your video will be a great help. Thanks
Glad to be of service. Good luck with your studies!
This channel is so underrated. You're gonna be big one day!
Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏 I will do my best to live up to that praise.
The Indigenous Australians in the Sydney area also performed tooth extraction as part of an initiation ritual for young men, I didn’t know this was done in Japan top!
4:44 - to offer a minor correction/clarification, the entire Pleistocene epoch wasn't renamed to the Chibanian. The Chibanian (formerly known as the Middle Pleistocene, as the on-screen text correctly states) was an age within the Pleistocene, specifically the mid-late Pleistocene. The entire Pleistocene began about 2.58mya and ended just 11,700 years ago.
My intention was to correct that with the onscreen text, but I probably should have just re-recorded it. No subs, happy to get a couple dozen views... the stakes were lower when I made this episode!
Anyway, thank you for the clarification!
Thanks so much for making these! I know it's been a long time but do you think the ritualistic destruction of the jomon pottery dolls could possibly be a substitute for human sacrifice? I know that's a leap in logic, but the idea occurred to this hillbilly
Absolutely amazing new recourse! Thank you for this gift.
Thank you for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.
This was very informative! Thank you so much for putting this together
Thank you for the kind words! Glad to be of service 😊
Thank you for this episode as I'm interested in the Jomon period and the Ainu now
Man, this is excellent stuff! Very high quality information, graphics, voiceover work and editing. Subscribed for sure!
Thank you!! I really appreciate the kind words 🙏
Thank you for this. I'll watch the whole series.
I hope you enjoy it!
Looks like a nice series, good lenght and density of information. Can't wait to dive in further. Plus for a japanese learner, getting an eye on all those kanjiz is a valuable ressource to say the least. Thank you for the great work !
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it! Yeah, learning the actual Japanese words and characters for a lot of these historical concepts is really valuable for gaining a deeper understanding of them and retaining them better, I think. On the flip side, though, it does take a good deal of additional effort (haha)
I'm drawn to everything pre-historic. Jomon history is right up my alley! The mystery will haunt me forever! I hope we learn more of these early peoples...
I found your channel through your IG handle, and loving this series so far - keep 'em coming!
Ah nice! I wasn’t sure if anyone was making it over from IG. Anyway, welcome! And thanks for the support 😁
Can you post all these again with out music in the background please
Well done, really informative. This unique approach of textbook scans as the source is effective as well.
I have a special request: I can’t hear voices very well and rely on the subs. Can you work on the subs to make sure they’re accurate or are you already doing that? Much appreciated and onto watching your next video!
Hello Carlos! Thanks for watching and for the kind words. The subs for this video should be accurate, as I uploaded my original script, but did you notice anything that seemed off? If so I will definitely attempt to fix it. I have not uploaded my script/subs for the second video yet, but I will get on doing that ASAP.
Subs for the Yayoi Period video are up!
Why did it take me so long to find this channel? I'm going to enjoy this playlist! Thank you!
Because weebs have no mental space left for actual reality
As a homeschooling parent who is determined to give my child a real global overview of pre-history (i.e., not the general textbook notion that civilization started in the Mediterranean basin and nothing important or worthwhile happened anywhere else until the middle ages), I am so grateful for this video! (I was so mad when I learned that there was a culture in Japan that arose THOUSANDS of years before Mesopotamia that had complicated pottery and a way of life that was rich and complex! I had never learned this and I really hate the idea that pre-history tends to be taught as “everything that led to the rise of the Roman Empire,” which is really just a way of centering Europe in history.) Anyway, sorry for the tangent, and dōmo arigatō! You’re a hero.
It's good that you are doing that, but the Mesopotamian civilization was the first actual civilization. Of course there were people all around the globe having tools and such. But the first ever human civilization were the Mesopotamian civilizations.
These UA-cam history videos that teach history are great, but if I were you I wouldn't be using them as my main source. Try finding books about ancient civilizations. These videos are great, but taking them as fact and using them as substitute for serious education is not something to be proud of.
Your comment is both patronizing and full of incorrect assumptions about many things-both my curriculum and history itself. Rather than judging and attempting to shame me, perhaps you should ask questions first next time.
@@saturninefeline6063 I'm sorry if I came out a bit mean with the "something to be proud of". I shouldn't have included that little part. But I think my comment still stands. I don't see anything historically wrong with my comment. You did say that there was a culture in japan that arose thousands of years before any Mesopotamian culture. Which is just not true.
I have somehwhat negative opinions about homeschooling, but I won't judge. To each his own and many homeschool curiculums end up being better.
Why are you using another account?
Amazing. Thanks so much for producing these. The time you spent on this provided exactly the resource I need. So grateful!
My pleasure! I’m glad you enjoyed 😁
Hi, Thank you for this channel. I am now teaching Social Studies in English (primarily to Japanese High Schoolers), and your work helped me explain several nuances.
That sounds like a very cool gig! Glad I could be of service 😁
Thanks for doing these videos in such detail, I live in Iwate where there is many Jomon sites and it’s a period that I research and very interested in. I’m glad to see a English video about it that is factual and in-depth on UA-cam.
What is the name of the track used for the intro? It sounds familiar to me...
I love this whole series. It is wonderfully prepared. Thank you very much for this.
Thank you for the video and resources! ❤️
It's so simple to understand and very interesting.
I am going to watch this video several times because these two time periods are fascinating!
Yes!! This is such a cool channel, I am so glad to have found it!
You sir… have just earned yourself a fan. And you are SOOOO much better than that jackoff, the Shogunate
Pretty informative. Well done. Agree with the monotone voice comment.
My Question is if humans existed in Japan 40,000 years ago & the Jomon period started 16,000 years ago, what happened?
Did a new people arrive & displace the original or is it just a name for a period of time after the original ppl began to make pottery?
16,000 years ago seems to be the point where a distinctly recognizable culture began to emerge, with that culture being most clearly represented in the pottery (but including plenty of other aspects as well). So, it was the same people living there, but they had finally reached a point of daily life stability where they could afford to begin allowing things like art and religious beliefs to take on a greater significance in their lives.
I’ve changed up my narration style a bit in my newer videos, so hopefully those will be more to your liking 🤞
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Thx for ur reply. All clear now.
Ur narration has improved, but he energy u have at the start soon fades. Also u may want to leave some extra time between sentences, especially when a new topic (paragraph) begins.
Gr8 job. Gambate
@@dancook8733 Yeah, I record everything in one go, so I get pretty tired by the end (haha). Perhaps I should break the recording into several sessions to maintain my energy level. Anyway, thank you for the feedback! I will be keeping it in mind as I make the newer videos 👍 I hope you'll continue to watch!
Awesome video production! Thank you for making these.
You've done such a good job with this series so far that I'm rebingeing it already to solidify the knowledge!
I’m very glad you are finding it useful!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory I visited Japan in 2018 after taking some beginner Japanese courses which was always something I wanted to do since I was a kid. I wish I had your video series before I visited; it's puts into context a lot of the places I saw!
@@tmate88-j8y I understand the feeling -- I've been to Kyoto twice, but both times were quite a while ago, before I was really heavily studying Japan's history. I can't wait to go back knowing what I know now!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Did I mention I love rewatching this series? Still going at it haha hope you're well!
I’ve seen episodes 1 through 15, just last month.
Now, I’m starting from the 1st again.
Awaiting continuance…
I'm visiting Japan this year. So I definitely want to learn about this before going to all the museums there. Thanks for your work.
Enjoy your trip! I hope you find some useful info here!
I love this series. I appreciate it. Thank you.
I'm very glad to hear that. Thank you for watching!
THANK YOU ! absolutely loved it and so thankful - Appreciate your good work !
I had an urge to go back and watch the whole series again. See you on the other side 😀
Thank you for posting these....What would be the top five-seven recommendations for developing a good overview of Japanese history readily available in print and in English?
Sadly I do nearly all of my history reading in Japanese (keeps up my language abilities in a nice two birds/one stone-type of way) but the Oxford History of Japan comes to mind as a nice English-language info source! (Fair warning, it is a bit dense, though.)
I have come across 'the tooth pulling ritual" before historically in Africa where it was done because of the prevalence of. Tetanus or "Lockjaw'. It enabled milk and soup to be fed to the afflicted through a rolled up leaf. Is there any evidence of tetanus being prevalent in this area?
Brilliant stuff man! Keep it coming!
Amazing! Thank you so much!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Hiii, I read a lot about the Jomon period but I also learned a lot of new things from your video, it was really helpfull and add interesting things into the discussion. I really liked the fun facts like the god hand archeologist. My sources said that the people from Jomon period nearly survived, were always bellow their nutrition necessities, and was nice to hear other take on this.
I’m glad you enjoyed the video! Yeah, it looks like newer research from the 2000s on has begun to show that Jomon lifespans were longer than we thought. That being said, I’m sure it was still far from a cakewalk!
Massive fan of this series - thank you for putting these together :) Could I please ask what the song is that is being played during the "Paleolithic Period" chapter of the video? Looking forward to the new videos as you can :)
Thank you!! Great material!! ✌️😻🙏
Your intro music slaps. Great content, bruv. Keep it up!
Glad you like it! 😁 Thanks for watching!
This is fantastic! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Great video! (^-^) The theory that the Jomon people came from Southeast Asia, however, is a bit incomplete, in my opinion. The Ainu people who are descendants of Jomon people have some Caucasian traits (some historians even go as far as to refer to them as entirely belonging to the Caucasian race). That means that many migrated not only from the Southeast, but also from Northeast Asia as well.
I think you are absolutely correct, and I honestly wish I had researched this point a bit more thoroughly, rather than just accepting the information in my books (which was rather scant on this point) at face value. I hope to do a future video specifically on the origin of the Jomon people someday so that I can give the topic the nuanced exploration that it deserves. Thank you for watching!
Love the video and the music but can u make the music quieter? It's hard to hear u over the drops!
Yes! I’m sorry, it took me like four episodes to catch on to this being an issue, but the newer episodes (#5 onward) should have a better music/narration ratio 😅
So very appreciative of this channel. I find Japanese history extremely intriguing, as well as its culture. With only being a Freshman student, I have much more to learn, and your content allows me to look forward to learning more about Japanese history. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, friend! :)
My pleasure! Im sure you will have me outpaced in a few years, but I’ll continue doing my best 😁 Thank you for the kind words!
大変勉強になりました！
お役に立てて光栄です！😊
Won me over with the opening song. I love Korsure Okami, and that song in particular.
ah yes thanks for making this video. I got pretty interested in fuedal japan around 8th century and was trying to find more info on dates further back. This is great brain food
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it. I hope to revisit this era and do an even deeper dive at some point in the future.
This is just what I wanted!
すごい、、よくできてますね。日本語に監修したら、絶対に再生回数が爆上がりします。ありがとうございます。
Thank you so much for this series, I’m learning Japan history in my university and there’re not many reference materials about it in my country 😭
My pleasure! Best of luck in your studies! 😁
amazing channel, subscribed
Really interesting :)
Island nations always have a unique culture
Indeed!
A noble endeavour young scholar.
amazing material
I always enjoy reading and learning about old Asian cultures, mostly due to my fascination with samurai and ninjas (i thank naruto for that). Im going to enjoy keeping tabs on your channel so i can educate myself
As a huge manga fan myself, I strongly relate to this (haha). I appreciate the support!
thank you so much for your work! i’ve been looking for an accurate source of information on ancient/imperial japan history that wasn’t too complicated for an amateur!
My pleasure! It can definitely be a tough subject to get into, so if I’m making that even a little easier then I’m achieving what I set out to do! Thanks for watching 😁
ty for the quality content. subscribed
Thank you! 😁
Jomon, haplogroup D, are tied to Tibetans and Southeast Asia. Okinawa shows some austronesian influences, and the ancient Hayato and Kumaso people were austronesian.
Ainu were different. They probably came from siberia ..
awesome video!!
Thank you!! 😁
Awesome series! Thank you for the comprehensive playlist! Only one thing: What's the name of the intro song. I swear i've heard it somewhere before, but can't find it 😂
I'm in the same boat! I've heard it used in so many remixes, but I'm struggling to know the original!
Found it in the comments above from the Video author!
"Tetegobashi” from one of the old Lone Wolf and Cub movies."
I’ve always found it difficult to find much about Japan before Sengoku Jidai and samurai.
Thank you so much for this content.
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
Did you mix the information up? Yayoi people came from the Korean peninsula and Jomon are likely from northern Asia, and given the appearance of both groups I'd say that makes a lot more sense. Also the blending of the two groups is debatable, once the Yayoi appear we see a gradual yet complete replacement of Jomon culture with their own not a blending of the two, so it seems the Yayoi completely dominated and either eradicated or absorbed the Jomon completely both culturally and genetically. If this was not a mistake on your part I think this may be a case of revisionist history I have heard of being an issue with a lot of Japanese textbooks.
This is actually the second comment I've gotten regarding this, so I have double-checked my sources, but the information I presented in this video is indeed what is written in my sources (at least the ones which touch on this topic -- Tema Betsu and Yamakawa Nihonshi, the latter being a book I started using from ep. 3). If you attempt to research the issue a bit online, I think you will pretty quickly see that the idea of the Jomon people genetically originating in Southeast Asia is one of the leading contemporary theories, although it is certainly neither the only theory nor a settled issue. I will link a couple sources here which discuss it: ( www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase/advpub/0/advpub_201215/_pdf/-char/ja ) ( www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/latest-research/59409 ) I think probably the most important quote from the former link regarding why this information is in so many books is as follows: “Although many different models for explaining the origins of Japanese people have been proposed (Nanta, 2008), the ‘dual-structure’ model proposed by Hanihara (1991) has been considered the primary working hypothesis for three decades. […] Hanihara also suggested that Jomon people entered the Japanese archipelago around the Upper Paleolithic period and originated from Southeast Asia, whereas Yayoi people originated from North Asia and migrated to mainland Japan around 300 BCE.” I will definitely admit that this theory is fiercely debated, and if (when?) I remake this video eventually I would very much like to discuss the other major theories (such as the North Asian one) in more depth.
Regarding the Yayoi people: yes, they primarily came to Japan from the Korean Peninsula, and I discuss this in the next episode. The Korean Peninsula is technically in Northeastern Asia, and moreover the Korean people (and thus the Yayoi People) seem to have their origin point farther north (Mongolia/Siberia). Here is a Japanese paper from 1993 which discusses the origin of the Yayoi People ( www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geriatrics1964/30/11/30_11_923/_pdf ), and here is a 2020 paper (in English) discussing the Korean people’s partially Russian roots ( academic.oup.com/gbe/article/12/5/553/5812782 ). During their sections on the Yayoi and Kofun periods, all of the books I use quite clearly discuss the coming of the Koreans (and to a smaller extent, Chinese) and the massive impact they had on ancient Japan (and I think I convey this in my videos on those periods), so this is definitely not a case of historical revisionism. I don’t think this is actually nearly as big of a problem in modern (21st century) Japanese textbooks as it is rumored to be.
As for the blending of the groups, my books simply do not really discuss how the Jomon and Yayoi peoples interacted. They put the vast majority of their emphasis on explaining how lifestyles changed, rather than how ethnic makeups evolved. The first paper I linked there mentions the “10% Jomon ancestry of present-day Japanese nuclear genomes” as well as the “high frequency of the Y-chromosomal Jomon haplotype (~30%),” so they were not completely eradicated. Additionally, according to this NHK article ( www.nhk.or.jp/kaisetsu-blog/700/368219.html ), this 10% is based on a survey of people in the Tokyo area, and the percentage of Jomon ancestry in Okinawans (30%) and the Hokkaido Ainu (70%) is much higher. It seems that the leaders of the Yamato Government that eventually evolved into Japan’s imperial family and aristocracy were probably Yayoi people who came after the Jomon period, and their dominance in central Japan could have possibly lead to Yayoi DNA predominating in those regions. Anyway, I would honestly be pretty interested in finding out more about why the proportions of Yayoi and Jomon DNA in modern Japanese ended up the way they did.
Sorry for the essay! I think I may post an abbreviated version of this at the top of the comment feed for anyone else wondering about the Southeast Asian origin point.
Jomon extraction still has some prevalence in the Ryukyu Islands and Hokkaido, namely in the Ainu and ethnic Ryukyuan.
I am from Okinawa and I would say my face definitely has a Jomon leaning, though I definitely see admixture.
would love more about jomon and archeoloy
Thank you soo much 🎇
Great stuff. Definitely subbed. Btw, what is the name of the song you use on your intro?
Thank you! The song is a beat that I made myself sampling a song called “Tetegobashi” from one of the old Lone Wolf and Cub movies.
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory awesome! I knew I had herd it somewhere before, but I couldn't get it. Great work! Currently binging on your videos. I have a bunch of books on Japanese history, mainly in English and Spanish, but some periods are really just glossed over. Always wanted to have a good look into what the Japanese themselves read on history books. ありがとうございます！
@@jaysantana1317 I hope you find the videos informative! Enjoy the channel!
Quite informative! The music is quite annoying, though. It doesn’t help one focus on what you’re talking about.
Do you think the ancient Japanese (5:24) have any relations to Alaska
Crazy that Jomon means basically the same thing as Corded ware!!
Instantly subbed!!!
The music goes hard.
Nice video
Why did you study Japanese and what do you do for income while living in Japan? Do you have a blog/vlog at all? I studied Hiragana enough to almost be fluent enough in reading it and and pronouncing it but I have katakana and kanji and then vocabulary left to learn and I hope to become fluent enough to move to Japan and live there for some time. It would be cool if you're still there when/if I arrive there cause maybe we can drink a beer or coffee together
I never thought too hard about starting to study Japanese... I guess I wanted to live in Japan, and I thought being fluent in the language and being able to engage with locals in their own language would be cool. As for my income, I, like many other expats, eke out a meager living in the English education industry (haha). Thankfully, UA-cam has begun to give me at least a small trickle of pocket change to add to that recently. I would be happy to grab a beer or coffee if you ever make it up to Northern Japan! Good luck with your studies and potential move! (By the way, there's no need to wait till you're fluent before coming -- combining a solid study regimen WITH actually living in the country is an excellent way to get good quickly.)
Ahhhh gracious. Thank you for the video. I have one small criticism. Please reduce the level of the music or remove it completely, since it close to the level of your voice.
It gets better in future videos! (Especially from the Nara Period onward.) I wasn’t great at sound mixing yet in these early videos but I (slowly) learned from everyone’s feedback.
Great video. My only critique would be to maybe lower the background music? It’s very distracting for me as I have attention deficit disorder.
The music gets a lot less intrusive in future videos! (It's still pretty in-your-face for the first few videos of the series though 😅 I was a UA-cam noob)
Nice, Good work...Hope you can get around to Lew Chew someday.
People say it should Ryu-Kyu, but when Perry came and in his reports, he said that the people said Lew Chew, was this a dialect misunderstanding ? Anyways hope to hear something s about the Satsuma invasion of 1609
Thanks again
Interesting! I am not super familiar with the history of the Japan-Okinawa relationship yet but it is definitely something I want to study up on and maybe do a video on one of these days.
As far as I know, the Ryukyu Kingdom was a tribute state of the Ming dynasty. Their language was influenced by the Chinese language a lot compared to other Japonic languages. Also, the word "Ryukyu" itself is pronounced exactly as "Lew Chew" in Classical Chinese (which is pronounced as "Ryukyu" in Japanese of course).
Two good books are
Okinawa, The history of an Island people, (Tuttle) Easy to get
Ancient Ryukyu : University of Hawaii Press@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory
Keep up the good work
I always tell people that,but they correct me and say Ryukyu and not Lew chew, but you can see it in the writings of the Perry expeditions as you must already know. @@tariz32
Very interesting. The music choice is questinable though. But I will tolerate it because of the content, even though it's kind of annoying.
Edit: I just can't. Sorry.
With that beat in the background and intro music I cant listen it and go to sleep, which is important for many people. Please consider updating that
It was also featured in the 1970s Samurai Series Kosure Okami. I love it too.
"can you please edit the work you've done so that i personally can fall asleep while listening to all the hard work of writing and translation you've done?" what a rude thing to ask, actually
Do I remember well that the descendants of the Jomon people are most likely to be the indigenous Ainu, while the Yayoi are plausibly (linguistical) ancestors of modern Japanese?
From what I've read, Jomon DNA remains the most strongly in Okinawans and the Ainu of Hokkaido, as you said. However, it apparently still remains even in mainland Japanese at around a 10-20% level, so it's mixed in at a not-insignificant level. But yeah, the Yayoi people seem to have left their mark on modern Japan more strongly than the Jomon people.
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Well it is quite predictable that Jomon people (let's assume Ainu-speaking) were in their greater part assimilated by Yayoi, so that modern Ainu are surely only a minor part of what are the Jomon's genetical descendants; it happens literally all across the world that indigenous population takes the culture, identity and language of their less numerous invaders: such is the case with the modern Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian (and in some point in the past, Andalusian) Arabs, with southern Slavs, English nation and many many other.
But returning to the Japanese case, I remember that first Japanese speakers are most likely to have come from Korean peninsula, and they are linked with so-called Mamun culture (1800 - 300 r. BCE or sth like that). And these time the ancestors of Koreans were living deeper inland, alongside Amur river close to Manchuria.
@@mareksagrak9527 Interesting, I hadn't heard of the Mamun culture. That's also a good point you make about indigenous populations absorbing the culture of newcomers/invaders. I hadn't really thought about it like that before in a wider world history context.
I have a book that talks in depth about how the Jomon and Yayoi peoples mixed and how the Japanese language likely developed, but I haven't found time to read it yet. I'll have to get on that eventually, as it's a fascinating topic that I want to learn more about. When I do, perhaps I'll make another video going a bit more in-depth on the subject!
@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory A little correction, since I have remembered it bad, the name of this archeological culture was Mumun, not Mamun. :)
The ethnogenesis of Coreans and Japanese people is indeed a very strange topic. Both of them spoke isolated languages, with no known relatives (as the Altaic theory trying to link them with Tungusic, Turkish and Mongolian (!) has failed a long time ago), which makes the case even more mysterious. And unlike the majority of isolated languages they are flourishing and not vanishing slowly in favour of more popular family groups like sino-tibetan or Indo-European which is also specific.
@@mareksagrak9527 I had no idea about this! Thank you for the information. I will definitely have to read more about this sometime in the future.
Is there any English textbook for Japanese history? I would like to learn Japanese history, but I can't find any English textbook for learning Japanese history before the shogunate period. If anyone could recommend a Japanese textbook which starts from the Paleolithic or Jomon period, it would be very helpful.
Premodern Japan: A Historical Survey by Mikoso Hane is a good one. The book details the premodern period spanning from the Jomon era until the Edo era in a comprehensive manner. Gina Barnes' State Formation in Japan and Protohistoric Yamato are exceptionally useful treatments for the ancient period. Both are hard to read. Most scholars in the field often consult her books.
@@tariz32 Thanks for the recommendations.
does anyone know the name of the opening song ???
Unfortunately the music makes this difficult to follow. The producer forgot that people with marginal hearing like most elderly have difficulty separating speech from the background noise. By the 8 minute mark I had a headache.
Is there a way I can message you to talk to you about some stuff I've been so fasanated with Japan more then any other country there history samurai culture art tattoos everything. I want to learn more about Shinto and there mythology because I'm a tattoo artist and love Japanese tattoos but I know the creatures all have meanings and tell story's but I can't seem to find out where to learn about them because I don't know japenses lol
To be honest with you, Japanese mythology is not my area of expertise, although I do find it very interesting and would love to try doing a video on it someday. If you have any specific questions, though, feel free to ask and I’ll see if I can find anything. You can just comment here, or you can hit me up at my Instagram account @mangabenkyo which I don’t really post on much anymore but I typically check once or twice a week.
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First ever super thanks! Thank you!
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It always annoys me when some people keep saying that Japanese war crimes need to be revealed. Like bro you’re in the Jomon period. Picking up specific events (in a span of a decade) of a nation that has more than two or three thousands of years of history is absurd. Bashing Japan is easy because it lost the war and gave up all rights to defend itself.
Lmao everyone of the countries where people say this have committed just as many atrocities against many other cultures with many being completely wiped off the face of the earth. To blame the sons for the sins of the fathers is absolutely absurd. That's not how we supposed operate in America, it's the land of second chances, hope and freedom. You wannna know how it became that? Mass genocide. Oh but Japan's gotta feel bad because they didn't pay enough for their crimes during WW2. I think the Japan of today is more than payment for the crimes they committed. I hate that short sighted, uneducated bs that's not meant to have an answer but meant to stoke a mob mentality.
Wow. T hank you.
Thanks it’s really hard to find textbook in here Thailand
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