The Great Fire of Meireki | The Edo Period Episode 6
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2024
- As Japan settles deeper into the new peaceful Edo period, a horrific disaster would befall the capital of the Tokugawa Shogunate. It is here we will experiance the great fire of Meireki. A tragedy that would forever change the face of Edo (modern-day Tokyo).
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Sources Used:
"A History of Japan" by RHP Mason and JG Caiger
"A History of the Samurai" by Jonathan López-Vera
"The Samurai Encyclopedia" by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis
"Samurai Castles" by Jennifer Mitchelhill
"An Outline History of Japan" By Herbert Gowen
"Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia" by Rajib Shaw, Atta-ur-Rahman, Akhilesh Surjan, Gulsan Ara Parvin
Additional information found through the Japanese Wiki Corpus
Articles:
"How the Great Fire of 1657 shaped modern Tokyo" - Japan Times japantoday.com/category/featu...
"Tokyo's Great Fire of Meireki | Backyard Tourism Vol. 5" - A Different Side of Japan donnykimball.com/backyard-tou...
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"In the West" by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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"Spirit of Fire" by Jesse Gallagher
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Small correction at 9:16 I accidently said Iemitsu when I meant to say Ietsuna*
Honest mistake, their names are frustratingly similar
This video made me appreciated the builders of classic three castles of Japan (Kumamoto, Himeji and Matsumoto) even more.
Especially, the Kumamoto and Kato Kiyomasa himself. He managed to design the castle so strong and resilient that it withstood the fire, the earthquakes and the test of time for 400+ years while also having great utility for the Imperial army against the Satsuma rebels during the Satsuma rebellion.
No wonder Ieyasu whacked Kiyomasa beforehand with poison. He knew he stood no chance if he chose to siege Kumamoto castle head-on.
I was in Japan in mid-April of 2024, still have visible damage at Kumamoto castle from the 2016 earthquake. The work of repairs and rebuilding parts of the castle is going to take a while, sent some yen as donations along with buying stuff from the gift shop. Has tourists but not as packed as Asakusa Tokyo.
Edo and kyoto share one thing in common all the buildings made of wood and bunch together.
I have a question about the legend of the cursed kimono. As I understand it (from readings of China and Korea), generally people refused to wear clothes once owned by the deceased. Did such a taboo exist in Japan as well?
I''m curious to know more about Edo-period firefighting. You think you could do a video about this topic? Who manned the fire brigades? Were they full-time professionals or volunteers? What training and tools did the use? How many brigades were in Edo? Was this an institutionalised system or more ad hoc? How was the alarm raised?
Cheers.
The Shōgunate try and not make the greatest content available on UA-cam challenge (100% impossible)
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finally ep 6 i thought you had forgotten about this series 😅
The Shogun series has had me busy
Another great episode and execellent narrating too! I was listening to your video while working and your explaination of the fire disaster painted a picture in my mind and the sounds of screams left me with dread.
Your channel is by far the best on UA-cam. I can't wait for your next episode. Keep up the great work.
Now I’m interested in Edo firefighters. I wonder how did they put out the fire at that time.
They’re pretty organized and professional, and they even have equipments similar to modern-day firefighters. This include a special clothe that can be soaked in water to form a kind of firefighting suit. And a helmet with a fireproof cape.
They also carry these bamboo water gun water hoses. Also, street corners have a “fire hydrant”, which are mainly buckets of water prepared for fire emergencies.
Like I said, pretty similar to modern day in terms of logistics and equipments
Love your videos! I’ve been grinding your Sengoku Jidai series recently and have been loving how you cover it event by event. Will you ever cover the Boshin war in a similar format in the future?
Yes!
@@TheShogunateThank you
@@TheShogunate Sweeeeet! Can’t wait! I don’t know a whole lot about the Boshin war outside of the more general info so that’ll be perfect
What a beautiful sight Edo castle’s Tenshu must have been.🏯😔
We must restore the shogunate to Japan in order to rebuild the Tenshu
@@nont18411 maybe with enough support the government might rebuild it on its base.
@@connor8873 They will never do that. Building the Tenshu meant that the tourist could be peeking into the imperial palace from above. They want the privacy for the royal family.
@@nont18411 Makes sense. Nagoya will rebuild its tenshu out of wood starting this year so we have to look forward too. The Tokyo imperial palace however is surrounded by many tall skyscrapers that have a view of the palace grounds, wonder why the excuse that the tenshu would violate imperial privacy is used, when they’re skyscrapers all around the palace grounds. Maybe because it’s closer probably. Hopefully one day the keep will return over the city. Hopefully one day.
New episode is lit 😎
Man, Mizu really did do a number on Edo after the Blue Eye Samurai finale 😅
I watched the first five minutes and thought all the characters are behaving like Americans. It should have been a cowboy anime with guns and barmaids. Not at all Japanese. Awful anime.
@@palemoon1904 eh, still better then a lot of other western depictions of ancient Japan, it didn't drone on and on about honor or their nobility and instead pointed out the whole hypocrisy of the notion given how their actual system works.
Yes ❤❤❤❤
I've heard of this but only a little bit though thanks for the information
We didn’t start the fire!
Very good video and fantastic narrator.
Ietsuna seems to be a pretty chill Shogun.
The purple robe incident would be a fashinating topic
I love this series!
What are your plans after the Edo period?
Think this was the event that was portrayed in the animated show, Blue Eyed Samurai.
I always enjoy these Edo chapters because I don't know anything about them at all. I know it's strange but I didn't actually know that Edo became Kyoto/Tokyo so I learn something new every day as strange as it sounds.
I look forward to the next chapter as it's around about the 47 Ronin movie which I like, I do wonder if 13 Assassins was real when it was as I think the Shogun was a Tokugawa but I could be wrong.
Mention Shakushain's Revolt in next episode please!!!
Would be great if yoo could upload the vids as a Podcast
so where did they move the new capital castle to? they stayed in Kanto instead of what was burnt down, was Odawara still standing after the Hojo surrendered to Hideyoshi or did this Shogun live in a humble administrative small castle like a small daimyo?, because most leaders do like to build in your face houses to live in, but this Shogun seemed ok
100,000K deaths is insane but it makes sense with how crowded Edo was at the time. What a shame to have also lost so much culture. Nice to know Ietsuna invested in public services instead of an unnecessary castle.
Castles in peace time are so unnecessary, except on the frontiers.
On thre contrary the Shogunate rather dismantle many castles that already standing, since they view that it could potential threat if certain daimyos decided to rebel and using those castles as military bases against the shogunate
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Pax Tokugawa 🎉😂
Edo is densely populated and most of the buildings are wooden, so if a fire breaks out, it will be a disaster.
The population density of the common people in Edo during the Edo period was 20 times that of today's Tokyo.
Therefore, arson was a serious crime, and arsonists were executed by burning at the stake.
The irony. Also, wouldn't that have caused more fires?
Lllleeettsss ggggooooo
took you long enough lol
Shogun has kept me busy
Oh no, no the Ako Incident, I tired of hearing that story! Can't you just skip it?
Christ's Wrath
Literally not
@@PillowWillow007 it's a joke
It's about time finally now i know what really happened in Japan so long ago especially in edo and really it was renamed Tokyo already before emperor meiji himself came to power dang and now i can hear the story of the 47 ronin and the name of it from you at long last finally but don't you dare take so long to upload the next episode because dang it i got to know what really was going on during the edo period no offense meant of course i didn't mean to mean or towards you believe me my last comment was you taking so long about uploading this video and I am a big fan of yours so I am deeply sorry about this comment but please try and understand that i love this channel of yours it is most informative indeed but yeah does get quite frustrating when dang it its taking so for next episode to get uploaded and it really has caught my attention so much that I am looking forward to it my sincerest apologies about this and please keep up the wonderful work you put in to this videos and I will always understand that if you really have to take your sweet ol time indeed when you do your extensive research in to all of this history to do definitely do it true justice to get it as accurately as possible thank you indeed for informing all of us around the world we all live in 😊