Going to go deep and say... Humans?!? 😱 I once hit a squirrel with my car and literally felt so bad I decided us sinners would be better to sacrifice than an innocent squirrel.
To be clear... this only happened at elite banquets, commoners couldn't afford all that. And they would be horrified if someone prepared a big ol fish without eating it.
I would imagine that your average farmer or fisherman in pre-modern Japan would be utterly baffled by all the weird rituals involved in the lives of the nobility.
Thank you for this video. Can you also explain why they still eat live octopus, cut up or roast live fish and crabs in Buddhist countries such as Japan and South Korea? How does that fit in with Buddhist beliefs?
@@garrettallen7427(inhaling and exhaling heavily while talking) finally I somehow managed to escape from the fujiwara's so I am gonna reveal the truth that they married their children in the noble families and gained a strong control for over 200 years. Oh no, they found me see shit you lat----
"When Japanese go in something they go in deep" This is probably the best descriptor for the japanese because ive seen basically everything hyper engineered to insane levels of performance over there. Im seriously amazed on how they do that
Hey, I'm not sure if you guys know about this, but there was this little-known clan called Fujiwara who married their daughters into the imperial family, and essentially had control over the Heian court for like 200 years.
So glad to hear the Fujiwara, who famously married their daughters into the imperial family which allowed them to control the Heian court for over 200 years, broke into food service. It's always good to branch out. Unless it's with your daughters, keep them for the royal family.
I have too many things I want to comment on so I'll just make this one; This video was great because Japanese stories, even the ones like The Pillow Book and Genji which are all about people just living life, make very little mention of food. This was very, very informative. Good work sir.
Funny thing that carp story is what Asian parents use to tell their children and even if not, it's the same mentality for rising up high in dominance hierarchies--it's even funnier since the ones who stops them from going up ain't from their own carp groups but rather "demons and stuff" (so if you're betrayed while trying to climb up the social ladder, they're demons from the start lol)
"Rumor had it that he could carve a fish differently everyday for 100 days." That had to be a BIG fish... although I am not sure how fresh the cut made at the 100th day would be.
I'm so happy I found your channel, because you're teaching me, about a culture, I never knew🤗 just how much I wanted to know! And you do it in such a way, it leaves one wanting more.❣️ XOXOXO from Florida CUTIEPATOOTIE ☺️🙏 4 ✌️ AlWaYs
I like how Linfamy videos eventually circle back to something mentioned in an earlier video and goes in depth about it. I didn’t expect a video about those knife masters or all the classes of prostitutes to get their own video. It’s like a weird scavenger hunt to see what vaguely mentioned fact gets a video. Japan sure likes all their specialized everything full of too much ceremony and ritual and food waste.
Yes. There's a lot of anime with the Fujiwara in them in fact. Chances are if an anime is set in Heian Era Japan, the Fujiwara clan will show up or at least be mentioned at some point.
My goodness the extreme degree people went to in designing a table just so they could eat fish guilt-free. XD And then today we just eat them fishies 'cause YUM
I had completely forgotten about the Fujiwara clan gag. Fair to say that I'm roflmao right now, figuratively. But, yes, I'm very close to choking from laughing.
I was wondering how you can arrange a fish carcas to look beautiful until you showed the picture. Okay that looks pretty nice and would have been amazing to watch in person. I wonder if there are many schools or places that will do this. It would definitely take someone very skilled with a knife to even make an attempt
Ah yes, how to forget how famously the Fujiwara married their daughters into the imperial family, allowing them control over the Heian court for two hundred years.
I'm sorry, who are the Fujiwara clan that married their daughters into the royal family to control the Heian court for 200 years? Are they a new family like the Kardashians? I think there should be more videos about the Fujiwara Clan that married their daughters into Imperial family, granting them control over the Heian court for 200 years. I think that is something that a lot of people who love Japanese history want to hear more about. (In seriousness, I heard from a University professor that the Fujiwara family is still in politics and they are still manipulating the Japanese senate or government seats. Because, of course they are, why would they just stop doing what they love most?)
I love your youtube canel and the way you tell the stories sorry for my bad spelling i suffer from dyslexia But i want to let you know i allways look forward to your next video
At first glance, I thought the thumbnail was from a Pokemon UA-camr channel because the fish looks like Magikarp and I watch too many Pokemon videos lol 😅😅
I love how most religions are like Religion: You can't do this, it's a sin and you will be punished in the afterlife for eternity! Rich people: Yeah ok but I *wanna* do this :( Religion:.....Okay fine, there is like, *one* holy exception/ritual/day in which this shall be permitted, but it's going to require a lot of money. Rich people: :) Everyone else: Bruh.
well buddha never said revere me or hail me (namo amida butsa is exactly that) rather he just asked us to look for real happiness and told about his understanding after supposedly enlightenment plus how to achieve it but we brought other entities ,ideas and stories into that philosophy to the point that a core notion of non violence can be sidelined , i pity buddha
Ah, been a while since we where reminded that the Fujiwara famously married their daughters into the imperial family, allowing them control of the court. Good thing, or we might have forgotten this very obscure fact.
I have to assume that, included in this channel's merch, there is a shirt that says "Fujiwara, who famously married their daughters into".... and we all know the rest. Ver batim. I think I caught myself repeating the mantra from the depths of sleep.
I believe once upon a time there is Samurai who screaming internally. " What a bullsheet! he litterally kill fish!" and the other guy goes, "ah this is metafor for reincarnation" "Are he drunk too much sake or some sheeet"
It’s funny how they saw land food as worse and sea food as superior; because in the U.K. it used to be the complete opposite. The best foods that lords and kings would eat were boar, venison, and birds like swan and goose. Seafood and fish were generally seen as for the lower class. They may be posh now, but mussels, lobster and oysters used to be poor person food, seen as little more than insects
Jesus Christ, when you mentioned that Mountain food like Venison was less valuable than Seafood to them, I nearly had a heartattack. I can't understand how anybody could value Seafood over Venison.
To be fair deer meat sucks unless it's well prepared and even then it's just meh. It's definitely an acquired taste. Whereas most seafood is mild, tender, and slightly sweet, which appeals more to the primitive lizard brain that wants fat, salt, and sugar.
@jagoldenpyrenees491 I'll just say different strokes for different folks when it comes to opinions on the taste of venison compared to seafood, but one thing that is not up for debate is how much easier it is to survive off of big game through winter compared to Shellfish. Squid, clams, crab, lobster, and conch all taste great, but they're bite-sized compared to a potential yield of more than 100 pounds of good red meat that could last months if properly cured or frozen.
@@bigfootpart4therevengeancing That's what we domesticated cattle for lol. Cows taste better and you don't have to hunt them. Pigs are violent but delicious and chickens are, well, self explanatory 😂
@@bigfootpart4therevengeancing We also have domestic carp (the not-colorful version of koi), which are huge, delicious, and not that hard to scoop out of their pond.
@jagoldenpyrenees491 Like I said, I value calories over finger food, so cows, pigs, deer, and the like mean more to me than lobster. And as far as carp goes, if they're easy for a person to scoop out of a pond, then they're also easy for wild animals to scoop out. You also have to factor in the introduction of waterborne pathogens that could quickly kill off fish stock, especially in a small body of water, which could easily mean the end of a supply of fish.
Funny how magicarp, I mean carp were the only fish fit to be "ceremonialized" for the shogun and now carp and tilapia are like the cheapest almost non edible fish for poor folk.
@@ferretyluv although I never said they're trash, if you go into an Asian or Mexican market, heck even whatever chain grocer or costco they're the cheapest per pound. So yes, they're easily purchased by those of us on the lower scale of income.
@@laurabustos6560 They’re cheap, yes. But westerners just don’t eat carp at all because they’re called trash fish. They taste bad. Tilapia, on the other hand, is considered bougie because they’re easy to cook. Tilapia are cheap because they’re easily farmed bottom feeders.
The nenbutsu is for Pure Land Buddhists. Wasn’t the court mostly Zen or Tendai? It’s strange that the Fujiwara would adopt such a populist school of Buddhism.
I thought it'd be one of those practice that preparing a dish with a living fish and eating it while it's still alive. (It's this really a thing or all fictional?)
The toola used saved them from the Buddhist hells because they really wanted them too and they did a lot of specific things while making them to justify it Thats what it sounded like to me at least
What animal would you like to make art with?
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@@Chris_winthers time to fix that ;)
Going to go deep and say... Humans?!? 😱
I once hit a squirrel with my car and literally felt so bad I decided us sinners would be better to sacrifice than an innocent squirrel.
@@laurabustos6560 Well as I have casually just learned if you car measures specific dimensions that squirrel is now in Pure Land🙏
@@Linfamy i mean, i am subscribed to you, i just have no memories of doing so
To be clear... this only happened at elite banquets, commoners couldn't afford all that. And they would be horrified if someone prepared a big ol fish without eating it.
I would imagine that your average farmer or fisherman in pre-modern Japan would be utterly baffled by all the weird rituals involved in the lives of the nobility.
Guess they get the butt lava🤷♂️
Hey Linfamy, can you please do the japanese tale The Spiders Thread? Love your vids BTW!!
Thank you for this video. Can you also explain why they still eat live octopus, cut up or roast live fish and crabs in Buddhist countries such as Japan and South Korea? How does that fit in with Buddhist beliefs?
I love Linfamy's videos more than I love learning about the Fujiwara.
If you didn't know, they famously married their daughters into -
Ah shit the Fujiwara clan assassinated him before he could tell us what they did!
the Imperial family, giving them-
@@AlexisRuby Ah shit not again!
@@garrettallen7427(inhaling and exhaling heavily while talking) finally I somehow managed to escape from the fujiwara's so I am gonna reveal the truth that they married their children in the noble families and gained a strong control for over 200 years. Oh no, they found me see shit you lat----
Control over the Heian court for-
Watching your videos about medieval Japan makes me realize onlyfans existed way before the internet was a thing😂
"When Japanese go in something they go in deep"
This is probably the best descriptor for the japanese because ive seen basically everything hyper engineered to insane levels of performance over there. Im seriously amazed on how they do that
“If your name isn’t on the list, it’s an elite banquet.” Some things never change!
Hey, I'm not sure if you guys know about this, but there was this little-known clan called Fujiwara who married their daughters into the imperial family, and essentially had control over the Heian court for like 200 years.
I want to say I’ve heard that name before but I can’t quite remember where… 🤔
It seems familiar yeah
It's ringing a bell...🤔🤔😂
Someone might have mentioned that before 🤔
Yes, but did they know "-emia" means "Presence in Blood"?
So glad to hear the Fujiwara, who famously married their daughters into the imperial family which allowed them to control the Heian court for over 200 years, broke into food service. It's always good to branch out. Unless it's with your daughters, keep them for the royal family.
They were serving the emperor two different kinds of fish if you catch my drift
Ha.
I have too many things I want to comment on so I'll just make this one;
This video was great because Japanese stories, even the ones like The Pillow Book and Genji which are all about people just living life, make very little mention of food. This was very, very informative. Good work sir.
Thanks! Glad you like
never forget that the fujiwara clan famously married their daughters into the imperial court, allowing them control over the Heian court for 200 years
Lin posted again
My soul has been satisfied
Thank you for the vid
💜
Nice haiku!
Not gonna lie, the Carp-al tunnel joke got me! XD
Funny thing that carp story is what Asian parents use to tell their children and even if not, it's the same mentality for rising up high in dominance hierarchies--it's even funnier since the ones who stops them from going up ain't from their own carp groups but rather "demons and stuff" (so if you're betrayed while trying to climb up the social ladder, they're demons from the start lol)
I wasn't expecting the screenshot from Shounen Onmyouji for the Fujiwaras.
I love your videos because I learning about Japans History :D❤
Glad you like :)
@@Linfamy :D
I almost forgot that the Fujiwara clan married their daughters into the inperial and had control over the Heian court for 200 years.
Thanks Linfamy!
Yeah, it's been a while since he mentioned that
"Rumor had it that he could carve a fish differently everyday for 100 days." That had to be a BIG fish... although I am not sure how fresh the cut made at the 100th day would be.
3:48 Carp-al tunnel. Lin, you magnificent joker, you always get me with such deadpan humor 😂
I could listen to your humorous history all day❤ BINGING 🔥🤘
I've never heard of Eboshi being described as "uncircumcised" but I'll go with it!
I love your sense of humor 😂! You're a great writer!
I'm so happy I found your channel, because you're teaching me, about a culture, I never knew🤗 just how much I wanted to know!
And you do it in such a way, it leaves one wanting more.❣️
XOXOXO from Florida CUTIEPATOOTIE ☺️🙏 4 ✌️ AlWaYs
Linfamy you have this incredible skill of making absolutely any subject enterTAINTNG AF
this subject is fascinating! i just meant wowww i laugh as much as i learn my friend 🫡
Thanks! I appreciate it :)
One way to be more-esoteric-than-thou is to have a party where you just food being stylishly prepared, and no one eats it.
I'm sure the fish were very grateful!
That was AMAZING and sounds so so yummy ! Great video pard ..
I like how Linfamy videos eventually circle back to something mentioned in an earlier video and goes in depth about it. I didn’t expect a video about those knife masters or all the classes of prostitutes to get their own video. It’s like a weird scavenger hunt to see what vaguely mentioned fact gets a video.
Japan sure likes all their specialized everything full of too much ceremony and ritual and food waste.
Why learn about Japanese history at school when you can just learn it on Linfamy's channel?
Keep up the good work, man 😊
1:32 Wait, the Fujiwara clan made an apperance on an anime?
Yes. There's a lot of anime with the Fujiwara in them in fact. Chances are if an anime is set in Heian Era Japan, the Fujiwara clan will show up or at least be mentioned at some point.
My goodness the extreme degree people went to in designing a table just so they could eat fish guilt-free. XD And then today we just eat them fishies 'cause YUM
I know numerology in general is silly, but this is some special dedication.
Its like making your bed 6' x 9' to divinely encourage sex.
Thanks, will try this
I had completely forgotten about the Fujiwara clan gag. Fair to say that I'm roflmao right now, figuratively. But, yes, I'm very close to choking from laughing.
Yay! Linfamy uploaded! My day is now a billion times better!! Even though the topic is nightmare fuel! 🤩
Should be a bit less nightmare in this one :p
I was wondering how you can arrange a fish carcas to look beautiful until you showed the picture. Okay that looks pretty nice and would have been amazing to watch in person. I wonder if there are many schools or places that will do this. It would definitely take someone very skilled with a knife to even make an attempt
Art! Now that's something I can get behind.
Another great video ... thanks Linfamy
Ah yes, how to forget how famously the Fujiwara married their daughters into the imperial family, allowing them control over the Heian court for two hundred years.
When you mentioned carps, I was definitely waiting a Magikarp/Gyarados joke, but that didn't make it less funny.
again awesome and funny but also informative thank you for crash course!
The scripts was so full of gems oh my sides :D
"Dancing ugly." You tell some glorious tayls. Thank you.
Can't wait for Linfamy to start making these videos animated.
Hey Linfamy, can you make a video about japanese weddings!!
LOL I laughed too hard at motofujis new sushi roll joke 😂😂😂
Was wondering if you could do a video on Ryomen Sukuna, he seems pretty interesting! Loving the content keep it up!
1:32 There, there it is, he said it! He said the thing!!!
Am I the only one that wished Linfamy had a podcast? Like I love the videos but I listen to podcasts more than I actually watch videos😰
Great now I'm gonna be imagining a Magikarp using splash up a waterfall and turning into a Gyrados for the next few days.
I'm sorry, who are the Fujiwara clan that married their daughters into the royal family to control the Heian court for 200 years? Are they a new family like the Kardashians? I think there should be more videos about the Fujiwara Clan that married their daughters into Imperial family, granting them control over the Heian court for 200 years. I think that is something that a lot of people who love Japanese history want to hear more about. (In seriousness, I heard from a University professor that the Fujiwara family is still in politics and they are still manipulating the Japanese senate or government seats. Because, of course they are, why would they just stop doing what they love most?)
🤔
I was about to turn off subtitles until I seen surprise wholesomeness. Listen man-
Huh... I suddenly understand how Gyokko (fish guy from demon slayer) got his fish x sculpture theme
Hell yeah, a Fujiwara reference!
5:08 that dude looks pretty into it tbh
He does 😳
I love your youtube canel and the way you tell the stories sorry for my bad spelling i suffer from dyslexia
But i want to let you know i allways look forward to your next video
Thanks! I'm glad you like the vids :)
ah i am reminded of the Fujiwara
Thank you for the history as I eat my shrimp Maruchan ramen
Rich people will always be odd. Thanks for sharing ❤
the carp becoming a dragon was incorporated into Kaido's Devil Fruit
A lava enema looks like a great remedy for constipation 😊
You are so funny and I love it. Hawking. 😂
Me: Why do the Fujiwara sound so familiar?
Me, two seconds later: OH YEAH, those guys!
I had almost forgotten the Fujiwara clan.
These guys seemed full of carp.
Yes, they do seem koi fishy.
Unexcpected Fujiwara XD
😂
I initially read "Taking.a Bride Carp" as "Taking a Bride Crap", which conjured up cursed images of ceremonial 💩...
Shared.
There's always a holy loophole.
For a $15,000 knife , we sure need a big ceremony
Yay too!
At first glance, I thought the thumbnail was from a Pokemon UA-camr channel because the fish looks like Magikarp and I watch too many Pokemon videos lol 😅😅
I love how most religions are like
Religion: You can't do this, it's a sin and you will be punished in the afterlife for eternity!
Rich people: Yeah ok but I *wanna* do this :(
Religion:.....Okay fine, there is like, *one* holy exception/ritual/day in which this shall be permitted, but it's going to require a lot of money.
Rich people: :)
Everyone else: Bruh.
well buddha never said revere me or hail me (namo amida butsa is exactly that) rather he just asked us to look for real happiness and told about his understanding after supposedly enlightenment plus how to achieve it but we brought other entities ,ideas and stories into that philosophy to the point that a core notion of non violence can be sidelined , i pity buddha
Ah, been a while since we where reminded that the Fujiwara famously married their daughters into the imperial family, allowing them control of the court.
Good thing, or we might have forgotten this very obscure fact.
You're welcome
I have to assume that, included in this channel's merch, there is a shirt that says "Fujiwara, who famously married their daughters into".... and we all know the rest. Ver batim. I think I caught myself repeating the mantra from the depths of sleep.
Hurray! Fujiwara 🥳
But honestly, carp is not a good fish to eat. Unfortunately its a traditional fish of my country
the Walking W has posted again, rejoice for my still-going-on Japanese History Hyperfixation. ありがとう、UA-camマン
I believe once upon a time there is Samurai who screaming internally.
" What a bullsheet! he litterally kill fish!"
and the other guy goes, "ah this is metafor for reincarnation"
"Are he drunk too much sake or some sheeet"
Bro... Please make an episode or more on Ramen. 🙏
It’s funny how they saw land food as worse and sea food as superior; because in the U.K. it used to be the complete opposite. The best foods that lords and kings would eat were boar, venison, and birds like swan and goose. Seafood and fish were generally seen as for the lower class. They may be posh now, but mussels, lobster and oysters used to be poor person food, seen as little more than insects
Jesus Christ, when you mentioned that Mountain food like Venison was less valuable than Seafood to them, I nearly had a heartattack.
I can't understand how anybody could value Seafood over Venison.
To be fair deer meat sucks unless it's well prepared and even then it's just meh. It's definitely an acquired taste.
Whereas most seafood is mild, tender, and slightly sweet, which appeals more to the primitive lizard brain that wants fat, salt, and sugar.
@jagoldenpyrenees491 I'll just say different strokes for different folks when it comes to opinions on the taste of venison compared to seafood, but one thing that is not up for debate is how much easier it is to survive off of big game through winter compared to Shellfish.
Squid, clams, crab, lobster, and conch all taste great, but they're bite-sized compared to a potential yield of more than 100 pounds of good red meat that could last months if properly cured or frozen.
@@bigfootpart4therevengeancing That's what we domesticated cattle for lol. Cows taste better and you don't have to hunt them. Pigs are violent but delicious and chickens are, well, self explanatory 😂
@@bigfootpart4therevengeancing We also have domestic carp (the not-colorful version of koi), which are huge, delicious, and not that hard to scoop out of their pond.
@jagoldenpyrenees491 Like I said, I value calories over finger food, so cows, pigs, deer, and the like mean more to me than lobster.
And as far as carp goes, if they're easy for a person to scoop out of a pond, then they're also easy for wild animals to scoop out.
You also have to factor in the introduction of waterborne pathogens that could quickly kill off fish stock, especially in a small body of water, which could easily mean the end of a supply of fish.
Wait, is that why Magicarp evolves into the dragon? NO WAY
It makes sense that the initial D family runs a tofu shop and are named fujiwara😮
Funny how magicarp, I mean carp were the only fish fit to be "ceremonialized" for the shogun and now carp and tilapia are like the cheapest almost non edible fish for poor folk.
It's a bit like salmon/oysters/lobsters used to be poor people food as well
Tilapia aren’t trash fish. Tilapia are popular.
@@ferretyluv although I never said they're trash, if you go into an Asian or Mexican market, heck even whatever chain grocer or costco they're the cheapest per pound. So yes, they're easily purchased by those of us on the lower scale of income.
@@laurabustos6560 They’re cheap, yes. But westerners just don’t eat carp at all because they’re called trash fish. They taste bad. Tilapia, on the other hand, is considered bougie because they’re easy to cook. Tilapia are cheap because they’re easily farmed bottom feeders.
Well it might not become a dragon but it will definitely become a water/ flying type.
The nenbutsu is for Pure Land Buddhists. Wasn’t the court mostly Zen or Tendai? It’s strange that the Fujiwara would adopt such a populist school of Buddhism.
Fish Heads, Fish Heads
Roly-Poly Fish Heads
Fish Heads, Fish Heads
Roly-Poly Fish Heads
Eat Them Up, Yum!
5:10 why does he look like he’s enjoying it?
i just wantd to let you know that i know an alarming amount of things about prostitustion in Edo Japan thanks to you
You're welcome.
Well hold on, now I want to know about these 9 types of rebirths in the holy land. I though they were all just chillin up there like heaven
RIP Magikarp
Anyone else think Linfamy's voice is super hot?
I thought it'd be one of those practice that preparing a dish with a living fish and eating it while it's still alive.
(It's this really a thing or all fictional?)
How much meaning and symbolism with your fish?
All of it.
Yay
:D
Carb is quit a Tasty treat to be honest
Iteresting, in Slovakia carp meat is considered shit becose it has a lot of free bones, it is a lake trashcan and is very cheap
The toola used saved them from the Buddhist hells because they really wanted them too and they did a lot of specific things while making them to justify it
Thats what it sounded like to me at least
1:38. Anime name?
Has someone made a video about cool Asian stuff in Avatar the Last Airbender?
One day I hope to be rich enough to be smug and dismissive.
Poor emperor forced to eat carp because it auspicious but not particularly good in and of itself.