Reconstructing Japan: The Story of Meiji Mura
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- In Japan, the recent past is often obscured beneath endless concrete. Meiji Mura is one of the few places to discover the atmosphere of modernizing, turn-of-the-century Japan.
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Hey everyone, hope you enjoy this one! Was a bit of an experiment to see what it would be like to do some location shooting for a video like this. I'd love to be able to continue getting footage of locations featured in these videos in person - let me know what you think of how his one turned out!
I'm happy with the visuals, but sadly not super happy about the audio recording quality - was having a hard time with my mic for some reason. Going to try to figure that out for the next episode.
@@user-hf8nb9mb4e Huh? FLW wasn't even Jewish - much the contrary. Extraordinarily odd comment.
English subs are up for those who prefer to use them! Thanks as always for watching - more videos coming soon!
Absolutely amazing video. I learned so much and I’m so appreciative of all the time and hard work you put into this. I just visited Meiji Mura today and I couldn’t believe what a great treasure. This is..
Great video!
Excellent video.
Very interesting video!!
Glad you think so!
Shameless plug for Meiji Mura, it is awesome, devote a whole day to it. I have been there 5 times and still am never tired of it. check out some of the events there too, like the detective game or the Meiji era live action Game of Life!
Inuyama is just a bit outside of Nagoya and there are buses that go to Meiji Mura, Little World, the Inuyama Monkey Park, and Inuyama castle (one of the remaining original castles) from Inuyama station.
Hey now, the video itself is pretty much a plug for Meiji Mura, so no need for any shame there! It really is a fascinating place, and even more so the more you know about the Meiji era. I think a lot of non-Japanese speakers will also appreciate how much English signage and descriptions there are (especially compared to some other museums in Japan).
Great video. Really enjoyed this. Definitely a place to visit now!
Wow. I always thought Meiji Mura was just some theme park. I didn't know it had all this history behind it.
Yeah, it's a really interesting place. A lot of Japanese theme parks have their own unique stories, but Meiji Mura goes a bit beyond that by having its own worthwhile mission statement (preserving historical Japanese architecture bound for destruction).
@@noahoskow4551 Anything interesting behind the America Village that I've heard about lol
@@trollingisasport The one in Okinawa? Sure it's got an interesting background given the history of the US occupation from '45 through '72 and Okinawa's continued issues with and affinity for America. Personally, I have more experience with British Hills in Fukushima, which has a pretty interesting background itself.
Very interesting and well done. I might point out that 渋沢栄一 will appear on the 10,000 yen note, not the 1000 yen note. Incidentally, 渋沢さん's birth place is in Fukaya, where I live now. Also, you mention that the emperor's supporters were anti-internationalist. I thought the opposite: the shogunate were anti-western, in favor of maintaining isolation, and opposed to opening the country; while restoration supporters were pro-internationalization. Which is correct?
Thanks! Appreciate the heads-up about the correct Shibusawa denomination.
As far as the Meiji Restoration goes, it's pretty complicated - the prevailing public imagination usually sees the imperial partisans as the modernizing, pro-westernization side, and the Shogunate as stuck in their ways. The reality is more complicated. By the early 1850s, the shogunate realized it could no longer maintain isolation, and opened up various treaty ports under US/British/Russian pressure. They then immediately set off to modernize Japan so as to prevent what happened to Qing China from happening to them.
Pro-imperial partisans - associated with Meiji's extremely xenophobic father Komei before Meiji took the throne - were enraged at how the Shogunate seemed to be bending to the foreign powers. Their rallying cry was "尊王攘夷" - "respect the emperor, expel the barbarian." They wanted to re-empower the emperor to do just that. However, many of the leaders of the pro-imperial faction had also been educated on western topics and had begun to understand the necessity of modernization. When they won the day, they ended up reversing course and essentially taking on many of the western-oriented plans and policies of the shogunate.
So, in the end, a movement that started out as xenophobic needed to change with the times. The abolishment of the samurai class and other semi-democratic policies only came afterward, and deeply angered many of the traditionalist samurai who fought in the Restoration (hence we get anti-Meiji revolts like the Satsuma Rebellion).
Hope that helps answer the question!
@@UnseenJapan very interesting. Thanks a lot for enlightening me.
Never heard of this place.
First! New video again!!!
Honestly some impressive speed right there.