I just wanna talk about how dope Peter Barakan's shirt is in the first episode about Yokai, this man has severe drip.... that black to blue gradient is CRAZY
Lewis Mills 1 second ago thearchipelagoawaits.wordpress.com/2020/01/11/on-bauhaus-the-squirtle-squad-and-the-gothmother-of-black-how-japanese-culture-shapes-your-life/ Hey, I wrote a blog about the influence of Japanese culture globally- and on me- from Impressionism to Bauhaus (and Pokemon). Check it out if you're interested.
Oh! I didn't expect the Inuyasha music!! That made me so happy; Inuyasha was the first thing that exposed me to Japanese media and culture, waaay back in sixth grade. Ever since I saw the anime, I have been absolutely fascinated with the history and culture of Japan, and hope to visit many times in my life. So having that music appear really made everything feel like it's gone full circle!
Same for me, I'm 34 now. And around 6th grade I caught Inuyasha, yu yu Hakusho, and cowboy beebop on adult swim I was hooked on anime ever since, and finally understood that it's the Japanese culture I actually prefer (as back then the internet was not so grand, and I didn't really know the difference between Chinese and Japanese culture.)
Yokai are just as real as the people who perceive them because Yokai are not just to explain what happens to objects, but a human connection, an emotional attachment to an object, a perception of an occurrence. Through the process of anthropomorphosis, all things have come to life, and are personified as Yokai, to emulate human nature, and mimic human behavior. This belief system is called, "Animism," and is central to Shintoism as well, the belief that everything contains a "Kami", or deity. The premise being, just as a human should respect another human, so should a human respect all things as one would have someone and something respect themselves. A form of doing onto others as one would have others do unto oneself. Extending the Golden Rule onto inanimate objects and spiritual occurrences such as emotions, and perceptions extends the practice beyond just that with another human being, which is easy to see a human as a human, as oneself. However, it is difficult to extend it onto inanimate objects and spiritual perceptions as well. Essentially, this practice is a way to respect oneself in the most perfect and complete way imaginable. Is it any wonder why Japan's culture has done so? さすが日本！
well synthesized, this process is so very profoundly rooted in empathy, it is all about how you relate to the world and understanding that relation, this dynamism that makes you, instead of seeking defined answers and explanations. If you personify everything you see, hear or feel, then you have simply stepped out the conceptual language that has been imprinted into us to a more archaic form, that is more bodily, more grounded. More simply here and not out there. More simply being, not holding but being held. Maybe it should even be said that the capacity we humans have of self awareness might without a doubt be greatly indebted to the diversity of nature that allowed for those countless projection to occur. To be cut from this module of perception, wouldn't it be very much like being cut from ourselves ?
I was surprised to find that merging at the last moment was a 'neat trick' used by the taxi drivers in Japan. In my country, we consider that as a douche move, especially, if the queue is already long.
They got MATT ALT :) Made me so happy to see his face! With his smart, wonderful wife HIROKO YODA he has written the modern ecynclopedia about youkai - also avaible in english. I would have love to seen Mrs. Yoda in here, too!
Taipei has a major elevated expressway, including Civic Blvd. Riding in a drop top with Barakan and transport sensei would be dope as hell. 52:40 ... ummm, maybe?
@@j.2512 Right! Even things like certain stones or even spaces had names and meanings. The Japanese Shinto still does this with large sacred stones and animalistic gods and yokai.
Is there a time stealing Yokai? Because I swear I was watching this for what felt like five minutes and it was somehow actually half an hour. Am I just so fascinated by the subject matter that I time traveled? Help. 😳 I’m not kidding. I had to scrub back through the video just to make sure I hadn’t missed something or started the video at the 20 minute mark somehow. I regularly get lost in research or hyper focus for hours so I’m used to time “flying” but I am genuinely freaked out right now.
Gardiaura I'm sorry about that, if i have the time and find out how to do it, I'll put English captions for u. i think that third parties are able to write captions, even if the original uploader didn't put automatically generated captions
Yokai are also representations of Emishii people's who were considered indigenous barbarians, witches, monsters and weirdos in their behaviour. Tengu art is often based on real people and events just written in code like a Mandala. But people have been venerated or lambasted, immortalised as a creature that is no longer human. Whether transcendent or demonic.
I can see many similarities with Gnad Vu and yokai... 🤔. I always thought he wasn't human, seriously, that long chin and thick eyebrow... dang, I knew he was a monster.
Jaeger* or Jäger comes from the verb "jagen" (meaning: to track an animal, to pursue an animal). Has nothing to do with the supernatural. How you translate "Jaeger" with "Hunter" and then just add the verbal equivalent of a circus act is beyond me.
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I understood the elemental yokai, as in Native & other cultures, & the Animal spirits - kings, & spirits that food, drink, incense, is given on an altar. But I did not understand the household item creatures. reminds me of cursed , or posessed objects.
bought a "buddhist" altar, @ an asian food store. it was not used for what I thought they were, "ground spirits, air spirits, etc. that enter homes or businesses, the lady explained to me, that's who the offerings were for. Found a video @ a thrift store - Yokai Monsters, then started seeing them, the same ones, in ancient woodcuts in J. art books I have, now the history lessons, it's all coming together.
So many of these beliefs are in so many cultures around the world. I myself own a kitchen doll. To prevent fires. She was given to me by my cousin, my family is South American.
yokai are elementals, fae, criptids, ghosts, urban legends, and gods and goddesses of nature, all combined. Yokai can mean anything, from bigfoot to a demon to a simple poltergeist. We have different categories in the west, we would not consider bigfoot, a nimph and a cursed doll the same thing but in japan is all yokai. Thats where the confusion comes from usually. Everything paranormal is yokai.
@@j.2512 That is a very good point. In the US bigfoot is considered a living thing not a spirit. My kitchen doll is from the old belief that a supernatural force like a fae ,elemental entity or a nature spirit will protect your house. It's similar to some yokai. Some people just keep it as decoration. While others would give it libations, depends on the person. Most people don't believe in that anymore.
We all now know the yokai were real, it was the result of a meteor hiting and island of the coast of Japan. There was alien life on the meteor, and it warped the natural life of the island into creatures of nightmares. Eventually the tokugawa shogunate had exploring partys disciver the island to try and eradicate the source of the monsters, as some were findin thier way to the mainland. Anyway eventually with master samurai, warrior monks, mountain men, and shinobi they managed to wipe out the populations over a 100 weeks. And thus saving the world without the world knowing. (I got this idea from hells paradise lol)
Shigeru Mizuki(水木しげる) is very popular manga artist, and, as you say, he has a long career. Ge-ge-ge-no-Kitarou (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎) has B&W TV series, color remake, comics, movies and so on. For me, the series seems to have the similar atmosphere as Moomin Troll, very familiar and slightly eerie. (I think that I was traumatized by a youkai called Elito/Elite, a vampire playing the guitar with a mouth full of sharp teeth.) The manga and anime markets tend to have the newer works, but if you search deeper, you will find those timeless old gems, I am sure.
“Even children’s trading card games” 16th century Yokai-mon cards anyone?
Definitely 😭🔥
I can't get over how there is the Inuyasha OST as background music in here.
lmao same
Lol
Hahaha well, there are yokais in that series (I thought yomiuri tv was sponsor of Inuyasha, so maybe the ost could be use by NHK...).
Angel omg!! I thought I’d be the only one to notice!!
Yes!! And I was the 69th like!!!
i came for monsters, but i stayed for street systems.
Came for Peter barakan
@@akou12 I came for the series, damn I love this show!!
The two aren't that different when you think about it.
Based
The brave little toaster.
SegaDream131 omg
The most evil Yokai of all.
😲
SegaDream131 I pray to my toaster and offer it sake so it always makes good toast.
Yyeeaahh man!!
I just wanna talk about how dope Peter Barakan's shirt is in the first episode about Yokai, this man has severe drip.... that black to blue gradient is CRAZY
What was the song at 15:03
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Hey, I wrote a blog about the influence of Japanese culture globally- and on me- from Impressionism to Bauhaus (and Pokemon). Check it out if you're interested.
Respect the drip
Oh! I didn't expect the Inuyasha music!! That made me so happy; Inuyasha was the first thing that exposed me to Japanese media and culture, waaay back in sixth grade. Ever since I saw the anime, I have been absolutely fascinated with the history and culture of Japan, and hope to visit many times in my life. So having that music appear really made everything feel like it's gone full circle!
AHH, SAME!!
I remember watching Inuyasha when i was like 6 on Toonami on Cartoon Network back in the day!!
Same for me, I'm 34 now. And around 6th grade I caught Inuyasha, yu yu Hakusho, and cowboy beebop on adult swim
I was hooked on anime ever since, and finally understood that it's the Japanese culture I actually prefer (as back then the internet was not so grand, and I didn't really know the difference between Chinese and Japanese culture.)
@@XxPeriCo27xXyeah adult swim had good anime back in the day
If you want to go deeper into Yokai I did an interview with Matt about them.
StoryDive thanks man I'll watch it!
StoryDive or you can listen to the podcast episode on monster talk yokai attack, the monster talk crew interview Matt and his wife about Hokkaido
Nobody:
The Japanese: it wasn't me. It was the yokai!!
What??
The west blames it on demons or the devil himself…it’s much worse.
Yokai are just as real as the people who perceive them because Yokai are not just to explain what happens to objects, but a human connection, an emotional attachment to an object, a perception of an occurrence. Through the process of anthropomorphosis, all things have come to life, and are personified as Yokai, to emulate human nature, and mimic human behavior. This belief system is called, "Animism," and is central to Shintoism as well, the belief that everything contains a "Kami", or deity. The premise being, just as a human should respect another human, so should a human respect all things as one would have someone and something respect themselves. A form of doing onto others as one would have others do unto oneself. Extending the Golden Rule onto inanimate objects and spiritual occurrences such as emotions, and perceptions extends the practice beyond just that with another human being, which is easy to see a human as a human, as oneself. However, it is difficult to extend it onto inanimate objects and spiritual perceptions as well. Essentially, this practice is a way to respect oneself in the most perfect and complete way imaginable. Is it any wonder why Japan's culture has done so? さすが日本！
Holy fuck you're actually insane
This is why I like Japanese culture, Nature controls the people, not people control nature which is the common way of thinking in the west.
@@RedChaos1208 yeah rice paddies are nature controlling people...
@@JimmyTurner Quit being so edgy Jesus Christ. Why the fuck are you even here?
well synthesized, this process is so very profoundly rooted in empathy, it is all about how you relate to the world and understanding that relation, this dynamism that makes you, instead of seeking defined answers and explanations. If you personify everything you see, hear or feel, then you have simply stepped out the conceptual language that has been imprinted into us to a more archaic form, that is more bodily, more grounded. More simply here and not out there. More simply being, not holding but being held. Maybe it should even be said that the capacity we humans have of self awareness might without a doubt be greatly indebted to the diversity of nature that allowed for those countless projection to occur. To be cut from this module of perception, wouldn't it be very much like being cut from ourselves ?
I’m fascinated by eastern folklore / myths etc.
Although the Dutch didn't have such a concept, the Yokai are a good description for the torturous creatures painted by Heironymus Bosch.
They are the same concept as the european fae. Not that unique.
Love the Inu Yasha music suddenly starting around 3:55 xD
I knew I've heard it before. Thanks for time stamping it
Yu yu hakusho
@@roryrrrttt6045 I watched both and I don't remember it from Yu Yu Hakusho. It is definitely from Inu Yasha
@@binchillin888 well I remember yu yu hakusho and its yokai so I wrote yu yu hakusho
@@roryrrrttt6045 do you know which episode the music played in?
We have visited the Kappa shrine in Asakusa. You can walk there from Sensoji Temple. takes about 15 mins as i recall.
I’m going to Tokyo in May and had no idea about this. Thank you, I will be visiting :)
I was surprised to find that merging at the last moment was a 'neat trick' used by the taxi drivers in Japan.
In my country, we consider that as a douche move, especially, if the queue is already long.
Omg are they playing Nujabes for the background music at 1:16 ?
"These kappa actually help people."
Because they totally aren't trying to steal your anus-ball.
Lmaoooo
A anus-ball?.
@@Lilith_Luvs kappa believe that humans have a magic ball up the bum
Spirited Away was a awesome movie!
They got MATT ALT :) Made me so happy to see his face! With his smart, wonderful wife HIROKO YODA he has written the modern ecynclopedia about youkai - also avaible in english. I would have love to seen Mrs. Yoda in here, too!
From yokai to expressways, nice combo!
_"You who desecrate this Land of the Rising Sun! With my advent, I, Yatogami, lay waste with the Sekki and expel thy vast defilement!"_
*"Rend!"*
Taipei has a major elevated expressway, including Civic Blvd.
Riding in a drop top with Barakan and transport sensei would be dope as hell.
52:40 ... ummm, maybe?
Brb gotta apologize to my fleshlight
3:50 nice inuyasha soundtrack there.
18:03 a famous Yokai appears
That is some potent stuff the original yokai guy is smoking.
And here in the west we are stuck with werewolves, vampires, zombies and ghosts.... just because most makers are too lazy to do some research.
Not true! The west invented Shrek! :D
@@ninjamonkey2251 Exceptions proof the rule.
@@inotaishu1 It's not an exception though. It's an expansion. We have werewolves, vampires, zombies, ghosts AND ogres. And some other stuff.
@@ninjamonkey2251 One ogre among a sea of vampires, werewolves and ghosts is an exception, not an expansion.
@@inotaishu1 Then let us expand our beloved ogre, if you know what I mean.
That's the funniest Matt Alt intro I've ever seen. XD
Hi
By the way you're gorgeous
The idea that all things are sentient, and have a name, reminds me of how Vikings had similar beliefs.
just about all cultures have had an animistic phase.In Rome every spring had a nimph , ever house had "manes" and so on.
@@j.2512 Right! Even things like certain stones or even spaces had names and meanings. The Japanese Shinto still does this with large sacred stones and animalistic gods and yokai.
Is there a time stealing Yokai? Because I swear I was watching this for what felt like five minutes and it was somehow actually half an hour. Am I just so fascinated by the subject matter that I time traveled? Help. 😳
I’m not kidding. I had to scrub back through the video just to make sure I hadn’t missed something or started the video at the 20 minute mark somehow. I regularly get lost in research or hyper focus for hours so I’m used to time “flying” but I am genuinely freaked out right now.
In this topic the book 'On the trail of Dragons' by Csaba Meszaros is a must!
there are no subtitles ?. I'm learning English but sometimes I do not understand very well the dialogs
ruud
yes they should add subs
Turn the captions on
Keep studying an pay no attention to the rudeness of shallow souls hopefully a yoki will get the rudeness ones... Oh turn caption on ur telly
Gardiaura I'm sorry about that, if i have the time and find out how to do it, I'll put English captions for u. i think that third parties are able to write captions, even if the original uploader didn't put automatically generated captions
Yokai are also representations of Emishii people's who were considered indigenous barbarians, witches, monsters and weirdos in their behaviour. Tengu art is often based on real people and events just written in code like a Mandala. But people have been venerated or lambasted, immortalised as a creature that is no longer human. Whether transcendent or demonic.
kappa maki...the ball just dropped
they forgot to mention that kappas wanna steal and eat your magical ass ball called shirikodama
Incredible. Absolutely incredible.
host has a crazy cool shirt on
I'm subscriber number 42
tyquan fleming ok
Carl Jung explained the world that Peter Barakan is talking about best.
Can you elaborate? :v
i kept waiting for the yokai of the metro expressway
1:18 holy shit I can hear nujabes music
Anthropomorphism is an archetype in all lore
Is that Nujabes in the background?
This would be great in yokai academy
So we're just not gonna explain why that dude had a zombie school girl in his house?
He's cultured? :3
22:08 Japanese Quagmire hehe
damn, did that dude really just rip ass at 1:58 all nonchalantly
Beautiful culture!!
Yeah I like the illustrations in mangER.
So what you're saying is, Herbie was a yokai
YES! Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro!!!
I can see many similarities with Gnad Vu and yokai... 🤔. I always thought he wasn't human, seriously, that long chin and thick eyebrow... dang, I knew he was a monster.
The expressway thing is amusing because that’s how we drive in LA but we get bashed for doing it not called cute or smart.
Fucking Nujabes background music. Good going. Good choice.
Nujabes is a good background to most aspects of life, tbf
🐺Mouth of Sauron the Yokai Hunter.🦊
I can't escape the feeling that the reporter in the 2nd episode didn't care very much about junctions.
nice shirt, that’s a nice shirt..
There is a Kappa Shrine near Kappabashi here in Tokyo.
Yokai are real
You think? Where are you from?
i dont know about you but that guy scared me :/ i feel his soul and that is what scares me :,(
Not really sure why this was in my reccomend, but 👌
Documentary about Japan...plays music from India...mixed messages?
Damn it Matt. I missed you. :)
Your friend is creepy. I like him too.
Can we talk about what’s in the background at 19:16?
Nah
Jeager really means super natural hunter or among those lines
Jaeger* or Jäger comes from the verb "jagen" (meaning: to track an animal, to pursue an animal).
Has nothing to do with the supernatural.
How you translate "Jaeger" with "Hunter" and then just add the verbal equivalent of a circus act is beyond me.
百鬼夜行抄 BY 今巿子 is one of my favorite manga!
nujabes and inuyasha music wow
Anyone know the music that starts at 1:15 ? I've heard that melody in Nujabes before.
It's called reflection eternal
When I die, I wish that I want to meet Wanyudo, Ichimoku Ren, Hone Onna, Kikuri and Yamawaro.
Morgan Bennett u sure u want to meet hone onna
You sure you wanna see a wanyudo?
I’d wanna meet Zashiki Warashi or a Yuki Onna
Photo book got that cowboy bebop font
The kappa was the last episode of the shin chan dub.
That kudan reminds me of that dog/humangirl from FMA
The feels... T_T
So... Can the expressway theoretically be a yokai?
Edit: the expressway reminds me of learning to drive in LA, the 101 specifically 🙃
43:41 Oh dear god no!!!! at least MATT ALT does NOT have a driver's license in Japan!
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only nhk japan can make me watch a video about roadways and not bore me to tears lmao!
Recognise so many of these yokai from the Nioh games lol
I did not put together how Yokai are related to Yamato Dsmashi until this.
ok, at 18:00 that guy surly doesn't believe his collection is teal, right ?? lol
I guess he does
11:10 This. This is basically the purpose of the DSM in the U.S. LOL
No Touhou reference?
Those ''spirits'' are the Jinns.
Ugh the toilet jinns are the worst in Iraq
If you don't own the video you don't get to put ads on it. Thems the rules
the background sound is Indian!
Vineet R not at all
No, it was Indian classical music for a while.
3:03 to some seconds is clearly Indian one
Im here because of Nioh
I understood the elemental yokai, as in Native & other cultures, & the Animal spirits - kings, & spirits that food, drink, incense, is given on an altar. But I did not understand the household item creatures. reminds me of cursed , or posessed objects.
bought a "buddhist" altar, @ an asian food store. it was not used for what I thought they were, "ground spirits, air spirits, etc. that enter homes or businesses, the lady explained to me, that's who the offerings were for. Found a video @ a thrift store - Yokai Monsters, then started seeing them, the same ones, in ancient woodcuts in J. art books I have, now the history lessons, it's all coming together.
So many of these beliefs are in so many cultures around the world. I myself own a kitchen doll. To prevent fires. She was given to me by my cousin, my family is South American.
yokai are elementals, fae, criptids, ghosts, urban legends, and gods and goddesses of nature, all combined. Yokai can mean anything, from bigfoot to a demon to a simple poltergeist.
We have different categories in the west, we would not consider bigfoot, a nimph and a cursed doll the same thing but in japan is all yokai. Thats where the confusion comes from usually. Everything paranormal is yokai.
@@j.2512 That is a very good point. In the US bigfoot is considered a living thing not a spirit. My kitchen doll is from the old belief that a supernatural force like a fae ,elemental entity or a nature spirit will protect your house. It's similar to some yokai. Some people just keep it as decoration. While others would give it libations, depends on the person. Most people don't believe in that anymore.
Is my computer having a nervous break down, or are other people seeing glitches and lags in the video?
Moon Bear It’s the yokai lol
We all now know the yokai were real, it was the result of a meteor hiting and island of the coast of Japan. There was alien life on the meteor, and it warped the natural life of the island into creatures of nightmares. Eventually the tokugawa shogunate had exploring partys disciver the island to try and eradicate the source of the monsters, as some were findin thier way to the mainland.
Anyway eventually with master samurai, warrior monks, mountain men, and shinobi they managed to wipe out the populations over a 100 weeks. And thus saving the world without the world knowing.
(I got this idea from hells paradise lol)
In hong kong they called each other HO' KAI!
Philippine yokai kapre saved him during war . A tree sprite ..
Quick question, why did the host wear that shirt?
What is the scroll at 1145
Hokusai:
ruclips.net/video/TtD62vMmkGA/видео.html
I was wondering why i hadnt heard of mizuki but then they mentioned him fighting in the war... Lol
Shigeru Mizuki(水木しげる) is very popular manga artist, and, as you say, he has a long career. Ge-ge-ge-no-Kitarou (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎) has B&W TV series, color remake, comics, movies and so on. For me, the series seems to have the similar atmosphere as Moomin Troll, very familiar and slightly eerie. (I think that I was traumatized by a youkai called Elito/Elite, a vampire playing the guitar with a mouth full of sharp teeth.) The manga and anime markets tend to have the newer works, but if you search deeper, you will find those timeless old gems, I am sure.
some atleast..in the beginning..
I think kitaro is born as a pisces.
Does anyone know the song that starts at the 2:58 mark?
I see a demon out a hand aye
Nioh 2 brought me here.
what about that creepy mummified looking girl at 19:00?
This is why I'm scared as shit to go to Japan
Been here 18 years. Yakuza yes, yokai no.