I love the story of William Adams. It’s very interesting. It’s also very ironic that Edo Japan’s persecution of Catholic Christians was the result of William Adams, a Protestant Christian, advising the Shogunate to order all Japanese Catholics to abandon their faith. Which in itself was influenced by the Portuguese Jesuits, who had already started missions in Japan before Adams’s arrival, not liking that Adams was even there in the first place.
What kind of anglocentrism nonsense is this? Christianity was already outlawed from the very beginning by the Emperors (the high priests of all japanese religious matters) , it is just that Japan was nowhere close to political centralization in the hands of a few men before Hideyoshi and pretty much busy torn apart by a great war of 100 years to pay attention to insignificant christians. Hideyoshi initiated the persecution of Christians
@@mariomene2051 It's awesome they defended themselves. Christianity has always destroyed local cultures and attempted at turning people into yet another fanatical mob. If that happened they would burn their "heretical" writings and today we wouldn't know anything about Shinto or Japanese Buddism, their traditional way of life would be largely forgotten and replaced with foreign imports.
It would be cool if you covered Koxinga. He was half japanese from a family deeply tied to both Japan and coastal China, a devoted ming loyalist, a key figure in the history of Taiwan, and his story still resonates in many parts of East Asia.
I'm ashamed to admit that although I'm Japanese and I knew the title of "The Battles of Coxinga(国性爺合戦)" as a famous play written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon in the Edo era, I never knew the protagonist is based on a half-Japanese man who led the resistance to Qing dynasty. I would love to hear Aniki tell the story about Coxinga.
The Asia saga by clavell is one of my favorite reads of my 60 years of life. Thousands of pages of stimulation and exciting entertainment. It is a series of books that completely remove you from the world you live in and take you to a different time. I probably read the first of the books when I was 17 and remember them to this day. Maybe, just maybe I'll read them again
Another character from the west that made a definite imprint in history is the french officer who in the mid-1800s sided with the last Shogun in his futile attempt to cling to power through a rebellion. I don't remember his name but that shouldn't be hard to find.
Tokugawa Ieyasu probably could be considered as a protagonist of Sengoku era. He’s smart, competent, visionary, evil, won the war and most importantly, had the thickest plot armor in all Japan. Like there were many circumstances that seemed too lucky for him. For examples, Takeda Shingen really bought into the empty-fort tactic by Ieyasu and left even though he was seconds away from erasing the Tokugawa clan from existence, Hideyoshi somehow allowed him to keep his troops in Edo while Hideyoshi led his own team to invade Korea which made Ieyasu the strongest military power in Japan by default once Hideyoshi lost the Imjin war, or the accidental arrival of William Adams which gave him the cannons he needed to win Sekigahara and Osaka and a perfect excuse to get rid of the troublesome Portugueses.
I think calling Ieyasu the protagonist is a little unfair to fan-favourite Nobunaga and my personal favourite lord of the era, Hideyoshi (the only true underdog of the three conquerors) but out of the big three it certainly is true that Tokugawa was the ultimate victor. Winners tell the story, eh?
I thank you for your excellent documentary. I binge-watch many subscriptions and now you are a regular watch for pleasure. Your channel is educative, enthralling, and a great pleasure. BRAVO.
The only white people, you mean. Actually, William Adams’ Dutch colleague on Der Liefve, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, was a bigger deal with Tokugawa than William Adams ever was: Jan Joosten was given a bigger house in a better part of Edo, with the area where he lived, the area immediately to the east of Tokyo Station, is even now is named after him (Yaesu).
I collect history talks for an archive and Japanese history is hard to find so far in good quality. however, I have also seen your crime pieces, they are all good, but the school gangs one was particularly useful, since you were good enough to link the styles worn with anime depictions. I thought a lot about what was depicted in Akira regarding the reform school they were in. I know that they were in a biker gang, but I mean about the fact that there was a crisis with the youth in that mileau too, it is expanded on in the manga, of course, but only indirectly in there too.
There is, he was made hatamoto of what today is Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture, and there were numerous statues and plaques dedicated to him there and in his burial place. By the way, being a hatamoto required that one had to be a samurai beforehand.
You're thinking of Yasuke, who never saw combat, didn't commit sepuku when he would have, and was treated with the same respect as livestock when captured. He was never a samurai, but William Adam's absolutely was.
To be precise, he was pressganged into service under Tokugawa Ieyasu. He literally wasn’t given a choice. It was serve, or languish in Japan with no allies, waiting for the Portuguese to find a way to have him executed. But, for his service, he was granted a domain and then a lordship title, Hatamoto. He completely bypassed the requirement that such things would typically only be bestowed on those who were considered to be of nobility. So while he was never directly named “samurai”, he was granted accolades that would typically given to one who had earned great renown for his lord. Yasuke might not have any knowledge or skills as useful to Oda Nobunaga as Anjin’s naval knowledge was to Tokugawa Ieyasu, but Nobunaga was as fascinated by Yasuke as Ieyasu was of Anjin. How far could Yasuke have gone in Japanese society if Nobunaga survived Mitsuhide’s betrayal? We’ll sadly never know, because Nobunaga’s death directly resulted in Yasuke’s return to the Portuguese missionaries and his departure from Japan, after a far shorter 7 years compared to Anjin’s decades.
Ranald MacDanld was a self ship wrecked sailor from Washington State. In the 1840s he was sentenced to 7 years of teaching English in Japan for his intentional incursion on to Japanese sovereign territory. His story is amazing. His grave site in upper Washington is an informative memorial and pictorial display of his Odyssey. Well worth a respectful pilgrimage to this adventurous man.
I love the story of William Adams. It’s very interesting. It’s also very ironic that Edo Japan’s persecution of Catholic Christians was the result of William Adams, a Protestant Christian, advising the Shogunate to order all Japanese Catholics to abandon their faith. Which in itself was influenced by the Portuguese Jesuits, who had already started missions in Japan before Adams’s arrival, not liking that Adams was even there in the first place.
So sad. They're supposed to be brothers (Christian).
@@mariomene2051 True. It _is_ sad.
What kind of anglocentrism nonsense is this? Christianity was already outlawed from the very beginning by the Emperors (the high priests of all japanese religious matters) , it is just that Japan was nowhere close to political centralization in the hands of a few men before Hideyoshi and pretty much busy torn apart by a great war of 100 years to pay attention to insignificant christians. Hideyoshi initiated the persecution of Christians
@@mariomene2051 It's awesome they defended themselves. Christianity has always destroyed local cultures and attempted at turning people into yet another fanatical mob. If that happened they would burn their "heretical" writings and today we wouldn't know anything about Shinto or Japanese Buddism, their traditional way of life would be largely forgotten and replaced with foreign imports.
It would be cool if you covered Koxinga. He was half japanese from a family deeply tied to both Japan and coastal China, a devoted ming loyalist, a key figure in the history of Taiwan, and his story still resonates in many parts of East Asia.
I'm ashamed to admit that although I'm Japanese and I knew the title of "The Battles of Coxinga(国性爺合戦)" as a famous play written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon in the Edo era, I never knew the protagonist is based on a half-Japanese man who led the resistance to Qing dynasty. I would love to hear Aniki tell the story about Coxinga.
The Asia saga by clavell is one of my favorite reads of my 60 years of life. Thousands of pages of stimulation and exciting entertainment. It is a series of books that completely remove you from the world you live in and take you to a different time. I probably read the first of the books when I was 17 and remember them to this day. Maybe, just maybe I'll read them again
Cool story
Incredibly interesting! Thank you for all the work you've put into this.
I loved Nioh when it first released, it was that game that got me interested in Japanese history, and in turn got me into the Shogun TV series.
A very good read in connection to this, is the book "In the service of the Shogun"
Another character from the west that made a definite imprint in history is the french officer who in the mid-1800s sided with the last Shogun in his futile attempt to cling to power through a rebellion. I don't remember his name but that shouldn't be hard to find.
Tokugawa Ieyasu probably could be considered as a protagonist of Sengoku era.
He’s smart, competent, visionary, evil, won the war and most importantly, had the thickest plot armor in all Japan.
Like there were many circumstances that seemed too lucky for him. For examples, Takeda Shingen really bought into the empty-fort tactic by Ieyasu and left even though he was seconds away from erasing the Tokugawa clan from existence, Hideyoshi somehow allowed him to keep his troops in Edo while Hideyoshi led his own team to invade Korea which made Ieyasu the strongest military power in Japan by default once Hideyoshi lost the Imjin war, or the accidental arrival of William Adams which gave him the cannons he needed to win Sekigahara and Osaka and a perfect excuse to get rid of the troublesome Portugueses.
I think calling Ieyasu the protagonist is a little unfair to fan-favourite Nobunaga and my personal favourite lord of the era, Hideyoshi (the only true underdog of the three conquerors) but out of the big three it certainly is true that Tokugawa was the ultimate victor. Winners tell the story, eh?
I have the entire James Clavell series in hardcover.. I've read that story so many times I can almost recite it by heart..
I thank you for your excellent documentary.
I binge-watch many subscriptions and now you are a regular watch for pleasure. Your channel is educative, enthralling, and a great pleasure. BRAVO.
Very interesting, and excellent work. I was just thinking too, Shinsengumi is another excellent topic for you to tackle too!
Awesome video, super thankful!🎉🎉🎉
Bittersweet
I was told recently that adams might be one of my ancestors on my mother’s side of the family
Special thanks for Chrono Trigger soundtrack at the end 😊
I really love the Chrono Trigger music in the presentations.
Yasuke, Oda Nobunaga's retainer. He and The Anjin are really the only two foreigners that I have heard of.
The only white people, you mean.
Actually, William Adams’ Dutch colleague on Der Liefve, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, was a bigger deal with Tokugawa than William Adams ever was: Jan Joosten was given a bigger house in a better part of Edo, with the area where he lived, the area immediately to the east of Tokyo Station, is even now is named after him (Yaesu).
Blackthorne as Hatamoto was a James Clavell invention.
There is no evidence that William Adams was ever a Hatamoto.
*Oda Nobunaga's servant
It's actually pronounced jil-ling-num, I live here 🫡
Amazing video! Very informative
would their kids be the first hafu then
“My name is Blackthorne but I’m white af.”
- John Blackthorne
Цікаве відео, по можливості обов'язково прочитаю книгу Джеймса Клевелла "Шьогун" Дякую ❤️
So what happened to Catholicism in Japan? Were there any churches left or did Japan completely eradicate them?
I collect history talks for an archive and Japanese history is hard to find so far in good quality. however, I have also seen your crime pieces, they are all good, but the school gangs one was particularly useful, since you were good enough to link the styles worn with anime depictions. I thought a lot about what was depicted in Akira regarding the reform school they were in. I know that they were in a biker gang, but I mean about the fact that there was a crisis with the youth in that mileau too, it is expanded on in the manga, of course, but only indirectly in there too.
will you make a video about miyamoto musashi?
Oi that's Chrono Trigger on the BGM
Excellent video and research. If you're looking for another interesting foreigner to do a video on, consider Thomas Blake Glover.
The original weeb
Honestly kinda silly of him to want to leave at that point I mean just think of how many dope anime figures he could have bought with that gold!
I still prefer the ‘old’ version
nioh 😊
An actual story about a foreigner becoming a samurai. Not like the fairytales of Yasuke
Yes thank you. Everyone wants to be like "oh yasuke, he foreign samurai" but then say nothing when the actual foreign samurai gets brought up lol
😂😂😂 someone doesn’t like Yasuke?
@@CanaryKin people don't like fake stories, he was nothing more than a pet monkey that got put with the other livestock when captured
There is no evidence that William Adams was ever a samurai.
There is, he was made hatamoto of what today is Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture, and there were numerous statues and plaques dedicated to him there and in his burial place. By the way, being a hatamoto required that one had to be a samurai beforehand.
You're thinking of Yasuke, who never saw combat, didn't commit sepuku when he would have, and was treated with the same respect as livestock when captured. He was never a samurai, but William Adam's absolutely was.
To be precise, he was pressganged into service under Tokugawa Ieyasu. He literally wasn’t given a choice. It was serve, or languish in Japan with no allies, waiting for the Portuguese to find a way to have him executed.
But, for his service, he was granted a domain and then a lordship title, Hatamoto. He completely bypassed the requirement that such things would typically only be bestowed on those who were considered to be of nobility. So while he was never directly named “samurai”, he was granted accolades that would typically given to one who had earned great renown for his lord.
Yasuke might not have any knowledge or skills as useful to Oda Nobunaga as Anjin’s naval knowledge was to Tokugawa Ieyasu, but Nobunaga was as fascinated by Yasuke as Ieyasu was of Anjin.
How far could Yasuke have gone in Japanese society if Nobunaga survived Mitsuhide’s betrayal? We’ll sadly never know, because Nobunaga’s death directly resulted in Yasuke’s return to the Portuguese missionaries and his departure from Japan, after a far shorter 7 years compared to Anjin’s decades.
I didn't watch this because of the series "Shogun."
Antonio Inoki? lol don't even think about Yasuke because you won't find anything concrete.
bro do japan history, not foreigner in japan
Ranald MacDanld was a self ship wrecked sailor from Washington State. In the 1840s he was sentenced to 7 years of teaching English in Japan for his intentional incursion on to Japanese sovereign territory. His story is amazing. His grave site in upper Washington is an informative memorial and pictorial display of his Odyssey. Well worth a respectful pilgrimage to this adventurous man.