To those of oyu who subbed for good ol' Yakuza content, don't you worry, i will keep making lots of it! 😁The Samurai stories will be an addition, not a replacement
Right? As i was watching it i was curious on how many views it had and thought my eyes were messed up for a second, should be at minimum in the 100s of thousands
It’s straight up criminal that you don’t get more attention. I love your documentaries. I just finished most of your yakuza docs and now I’m on the samurai docs. I would totally subscribe to you and help support you financially if I wasn’t a broke teacher but I’ll do what I can. I will watch all of your videos and like everyone of them. I’ll tell my friends and share on my social media to help you out. I want to do this in my spare time as well because I love history.
Great video. I lived in Japan for 3 years. Not far from Kamakura. My Japanese father in law gave me a katana from the Kamakura period. It is still in Japan and difficult to bring home to Australia. Love walking the street of Kamakura and the surrounding hills.
I'll try to bring in as much variation as i possibly can while staying on topic, for sure 😁 Thanks for watching and the nice comment btw, means a lot to me 🙏🏻
I would absolutely love a video on Kurosawa or just those kinds of movies in general! Also, it took me a while to figure it out, but I definitely recognized that music from Ghost of Tsushima almost immediately lol You clearly have a good taste in games my friend, cus this isn't the first time I've noticed some goof game music in these videos of yours lol
I'd love to do a video about Kurosawa! Truly one of the greatest directors of all time 🔥 Glad you noticed the GoT music btw 😁 Video game music in general is great for youtubers because it's not claimed by the algorithm. Also gives me a great excuse to listen to music of my fav games more haha
I feel given the countless court intrigue and wars for which clan could rule Japan in the imperial family. It seems quite obvious that the powerful daimyo would eventually run the prefectures and a shogun would run the country..
Dude keep this up. The visuals are terrific, the audio needs work. I would recommend looking into audio polishing software that way you won’t need to do a heavy microphone upgrade. I’m subscribing.
Thanks for subbing and commenting man! Do you have any audio software in particular that you would recommend? Getting the audio right is actually one of the most challenging parts for me tbh 🤔
Wonderful info about the Samurai and Japanese history, which I love! Could you please do a story on one of my favorite warriors, Minamoto Yoshitsune? Thank you and I subscribed.
I love learning about history. Japan has some of the most awe inspiring leaders and rulers throughout the eras. I take some of the moral lessons from these important people like ryoma sakamoto who wanted a better future for his land and people.
I'm currently watching an anime set in the Heian period. I noticed the characters all have a "no" between their surnames and given names. Like Minomoto no Raikou. What I want to know is does the no mean something like from or of, as in Raikou of the Minamoto clan? As well about when does the no stop getting used because I don't see people from future historical periods with the no in their name. I have a similar question about emperors with a Go in front of their names.
"no" (の) is a possessive particle in Japanese so you're right, it would mean "of" like Taira no Masakado (Masakado of the Taira). But i've seen names use the "no" and i've also seen them without it 😁 "Go" as in "Go-Shirakawa" is written with the Kanji 後 which means behind/back/later, so i guess it's something like "the later Shirakawa"!
@@anikihistory I suspect it was something reserved for nobility like "von" or "van" was in some European countries. I'm just wondering when it fell out of use. It seem like its usage is completely gone by the Sengoku era.
I would love to see a in depth analysis of how the shogun government was formed, and might I ask what is your accent? (Edit I loved the video as well!!)
@@anikihistory hey man personally I love the accent, I wouldn’t have ever guessed it was Austrian, I have become a major fan of yours and would love to see you get the popularity you deserve. You are doing awesome!!
@@Lazyp00lturtle I was thinking maybe i should pull an Arnold Schwarzenegger and go all in on the Austrian accent hahaha but i am glad you like the content so much 🙏🏻 that's what keeps me going
However, the Kamakura Shogunate was actually ruled by the Hojo Regency in which the Hojo clan married their daughters into the Minamoto family and ruled as regents over young Minamoto heirs who were declared to be Shoguns.
More specifically characters of the Han people, almost as the same as the chinese say: Hanzi. There are some good old games like Onimusha and most recently the Nioh games set on the Sengoku Jidai, pretty fun but hard af at the same time lmao.
@@anikihistory platinum? jesus you must have played a lot lol I don't remember much of Nioh 2 but from Nioh I can't forget Yuki Onna & Oda vs me, oh boy that was a pain lmao. Onimusha was from the PS2 kinda like Resident Evil with Samurai, recently a "remake" or something from the 1st game was released.
@@loois3431 The double bossfights in Nioh were such bullshit haha idk how i had the patience for those! I'm the biggest Resident Evil fanboy so it's actually crazy that i never played Onimusha tbh, it's very similar indeed haha
@@anikihistory Team Ninja has Wo Long too that launched a few months ago, that game is fun as well. Yeah mostly the fixed camera lol Capcom has the Resident Evil with dinosaurs too, Dino Crisis.
19:17 It is important to know, that the Fujiwara clan maintaint control over the goverment, by marring their daughters into the Imperial family. This made them the dominat political force during almost the complete Heian period.
I can't imagine the level of suffering and Carnage and Butchery tens of thousands of men and horses smashed against one another with katana swords sharp as a razor blade slashing stabbing and hacking
Samurai - were ssaul-abi in Korean. Ssaul means "fight", abi means "grown man". Every Korean knows what it means but funny no Japanese knows what the word means or where the word comes from. There are hundreds, thiusansands of Japanese words just like that.
When did the land begin to be called "Nihon"? Could the "Hon" of "Nihon" refer to "Book"? Being that it is almost a certainty that the Yamato (at least) were actually Israelites (watch "The Roots of Japan Were Ancient Israel?" ruclips.net/video/kDrgMS78-ek/видео.htmlsi=h_DP15nPm5A_tFSi ), it would make sense.
While i didn't research this in detail yet, it seems like in some cases, women even served as soldiers! The cousin of Yoritomo that i mentioned in a video (the guy who took over Kyoto for a while) had a woman in his army who became quite legendary, her name was Tomoe. Generally though, i guess the "servant" ranks were actually still pretty high ranks in society at the time, and with women rarely making it to high-ranking positions back then i'd say it was at least a very, very rare occurence! Would be a very interesting future topic for a video though, thanks for the inspiration 😁
Women who were born into samurai families were raised in samurai martial traditions. However, they rarely carried swords as it was feared that there would be a new war every 4 weeks. 😉😁
@anikihistory I think I watched something about two pirates who were a couple they were ruthless and really successful they were japanese pirates please do a video on it.
No, women could not be samurai. However, they could be warriors in some cases. Onna bugeisha is what they are called. But Japan was still a patriarchal society.
I'm Peter gradon a descendant of Rollo gradon the first vikingar king of Normans his younger brother was Rurik gradon the Rus or Roda some say because of his red hair actually it's Ruth's childs from Ruth red haired king David grand mother and the Rus line goes back Futher to before Abrahm of the Chaldeans or Celt eans the khaldi a Arya people in uratu in the caucasus king rusa then to us part gutia part Celt eans part shimerian Shinar shee Arya mostly blonde red haired blue eyed Arya people then who became the ebru Ivar Hebrews later after 400 years as slaves in Khem or Egypt and with the mostly blonde red haired blue eyed Arya mittani ruler Ankeny Aten Adonai Odin Yahweh god eloh Allah we came back to our homeland with Moses same racial type as the blonde red haired blue eyed mittani and hittites or hurrians .we are danites Vikings Norman we are also from the vaeringjar or varjager or varangian clan the de vere's as in my part de vere grand uncle sir Winston Churchill certainly a fierce Norman warrior we are the Israelites by our other names after 720 BC Beth khymry kimmerians scythians Saka saksons galls Celts guti goths and dan magi budinni kushars khazars hun Kan dan etc most went west into Europe but many also went east us venerators of enki danki Aten Adonai Odin Yahweh god eloh Allah others venerators of enlil elil baal Moloch devil
The name samurai comes from samaryatians as in Beth khymry kimmerians scythians and ninja from the other name of sumeria Shinar Sina china sin ja ninja it was if you had some samurai nihonjin anscestory never shinobi
To those of oyu who subbed for good ol' Yakuza content, don't you worry, i will keep making lots of it! 😁The Samurai stories will be an addition, not a replacement
I can't speak for others, but I love history in general, so I think this is great!
I'm here for it man, i got interested in the yakuza through my interest in samurai and I got into samurai as a practitioner in iaijutsu and kenjutsu
more samurai history is good and cool
I'm here for both. This channel is great
I enjoy the lectures on the history as much
I'd like to see more about the heian period, it always feels overlooked in samurai history videos
Noted! Thanks for watching 😁
Awesome Video, it is insane that this has so few views. The writing is well done and the production quality is wonderful.
Right? As i was watching it i was curious on how many views it had and thought my eyes were messed up for a second, should be at minimum in the 100s of thousands
I really enjoyed the video! 😃 I'd love to know more about samurai family life, kind of "a day in the life of a samurai off the battlefield" 🤔
Interesting idea! Added to the list ✍🏻
How does this only have 400 views. Like it’s actually really good and interesting
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! It's still a pretty recent upload so i'm patient with the views 😁 let's hope it eventually blows up!
I am here for all Japanese content and history, this is an excellent contribution. Thank you
Thanks for watching as always! 🙏🏻
It’s straight up criminal that you don’t get more attention. I love your documentaries. I just finished most of your yakuza docs and now I’m on the samurai docs. I would totally subscribe to you and help support you financially if I wasn’t a broke teacher but I’ll do what I can. I will watch all of your videos and like everyone of them. I’ll tell my friends and share on my social media to help you out. I want to do this in my spare time as well because I love history.
Another great video, thank you for insights into Japan/Nihon's history
Thanks for watching! 🙏🏻
Great video. I lived in Japan for 3 years. Not far from Kamakura. My Japanese father in law gave me a katana from the Kamakura period. It is still in Japan and difficult to bring home to Australia. Love walking the street of Kamakura and the surrounding hills.
The quality of these videos are excellent, you could do about Japanese sports too, funny stories, more history, more yakuza, you have great potential
I'll try to bring in as much variation as i possibly can while staying on topic, for sure 😁
Thanks for watching and the nice comment btw, means a lot to me 🙏🏻
I would absolutely love a video on Kurosawa or just those kinds of movies in general! Also, it took me a while to figure it out, but I definitely recognized that music from Ghost of Tsushima almost immediately lol You clearly have a good taste in games my friend, cus this isn't the first time I've noticed some goof game music in these videos of yours lol
I'd love to do a video about Kurosawa! Truly one of the greatest directors of all time 🔥
Glad you noticed the GoT music btw 😁 Video game music in general is great for youtubers because it's not claimed by the algorithm. Also gives me a great excuse to listen to music of my fav games more haha
I feel given the countless court intrigue and wars for which clan could rule Japan in the imperial family. It seems quite obvious that the powerful daimyo would eventually run the prefectures and a shogun would run the country..
I am a yakuza and samurai fanatic... this is brilliant
Same here! Glad you enjoyed the video 🙏🏻
Dude keep this up. The visuals are terrific, the audio needs work. I would recommend looking into audio polishing software that way you won’t need to do a heavy microphone upgrade. I’m subscribing.
Thanks for subbing and commenting man!
Do you have any audio software in particular that you would recommend? Getting the audio right is actually one of the most challenging parts for me tbh 🤔
Thank you such a well-produced presentation.
So basically, the emperor who had 52 kids started a 2 thousand year civil war between siblings, over inheritance.
Aniki , thanks a lot🙏🏻☺️
Amazing content, as usual 🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it 😁
Wonderful info about the Samurai and Japanese history, which I love!
Could you please do a story on one of my favorite warriors, Minamoto Yoshitsune?
Thank you and I subscribed.
I love learning about history. Japan has some of the most awe inspiring leaders and rulers throughout the eras. I take some of the moral lessons from these important people like ryoma sakamoto who wanted a better future for his land and people.
That was a very good review of the subject! Thank you
I would've liked for you to have gone a little further into detail on the legends of the curse of the severed head.
Don't you worry, i got something planned for October that will allow me to cover that story in more detail! 😁
oogh the olden days comes across somewhat depressing - thank you for sharing
I'm currently watching an anime set in the Heian period. I noticed the characters all have a "no" between their surnames and given names. Like Minomoto no Raikou.
What I want to know is does the no mean something like from or of, as in Raikou of the Minamoto clan? As well about when does the no stop getting used because I don't see people from future historical periods with the no in their name.
I have a similar question about emperors with a Go in front of their names.
"no" (の) is a possessive particle in Japanese so you're right, it would mean "of" like Taira no Masakado (Masakado of the Taira). But i've seen names use the "no" and i've also seen them without it 😁
"Go" as in "Go-Shirakawa" is written with the Kanji 後 which means behind/back/later, so i guess it's something like "the later Shirakawa"!
@@anikihistory I suspect it was something reserved for nobility like "von" or "van" was in some European countries.
I'm just wondering when it fell out of use. It seem like its usage is completely gone by the Sengoku era.
Very cool, I love the samurai!
Such a cool part of history 🙏🏻
This was amazing. Thank you.
Great channel!
Thanks dude!
6:36 That's an uncanny parallel to the english word 'knight', that also originally meant 'servant', see the german 'knecht'.
More on the Samurai and the history of Japan
The black and white movie in the beginning what is the title of that film
How do you know so much? i love samurai's my dad even made me wooden katana. samurai's are so cool!!!😮
New subscriber here! Could you produce a video about the origin of the Shinobi? Thx!
Could you please confirm the history of the Samurai, rulers, and battles from which the movie The Last Samurai was based?
Was there a Katsumoto?
I’m loving the Ghost of Tsushima ost playing in the background lol
I would love to see a in depth analysis of how the shogun government was formed, and might I ask what is your accent? (Edit I loved the video as well!!)
Good idea! I'll do that in the future 😁
It's an Austrian accent btw 🇦🇹 i try to hide it as much as possible but sometimes it still comes out haha
@@anikihistory hey man personally I love the accent, I wouldn’t have ever guessed it was Austrian, I have become a major fan of yours and would love to see you get the popularity you deserve. You are doing awesome!!
@@Lazyp00lturtle I was thinking maybe i should pull an Arnold Schwarzenegger and go all in on the Austrian accent hahaha but i am glad you like the content so much 🙏🏻 that's what keeps me going
@@anikihistory NO! GET TO THA CHOPPA!
That WOULD be funny. Maybe just to start a video on one of the more famous "super" samurai.
Good stuff, ANIKI. 😁
Thanks buddy! 🙏🏻
I wish I could go back to the old days❤
This is very good.
Amazing 😻 RUclips channel sir! You are absolutely an National treasure 😅
I read an exiled korean prince to japan that brought the culture of retainers or warrior servants to Japan
However, the Kamakura Shogunate was actually ruled by the Hojo Regency in which the Hojo clan married their daughters into the Minamoto family and ruled as regents over young Minamoto heirs who were declared to be Shoguns.
This is a pretty great visual epic novel.
Glad you like it!
Who's stronger and better warrior Samurai or Ninja? Make one clip about it and one clip about real fight or battle between Samurais and Ninjas!
More specifically characters of the Han people, almost as the same as the chinese say: Hanzi. There are some good old games like Onimusha and most recently the Nioh games set on the Sengoku Jidai, pretty fun but hard af at the same time lmao.
I got the platinum trophy on Nioh 1&2, fantastic games! Never played Onimusha unfortunately, guess i should change that soon 😬
@@anikihistory platinum? jesus you must have played a lot lol I don't remember much of Nioh 2 but from Nioh I can't forget Yuki Onna & Oda vs me, oh boy that was a pain lmao. Onimusha was from the PS2 kinda like Resident Evil with Samurai, recently a "remake" or something from the 1st game was released.
@@loois3431 The double bossfights in Nioh were such bullshit haha idk how i had the patience for those!
I'm the biggest Resident Evil fanboy so it's actually crazy that i never played Onimusha tbh, it's very similar indeed haha
@@anikihistory Team Ninja has Wo Long too that launched a few months ago, that game is fun as well. Yeah mostly the fixed camera lol Capcom has the Resident Evil with dinosaurs too, Dino Crisis.
Gotta love the ghost of tsushima soundtrack
explanation of Miyamoto Musashi and Vagabond Manga and obviously Ninja
19:17 It is important to know, that the Fujiwara clan maintaint control over the goverment, by marring their daughters into the Imperial family. This made them the dominat political force during almost the complete Heian period.
I can't imagine the level of suffering and Carnage and Butchery tens of thousands of men and horses smashed against one another with katana swords sharp as a razor blade slashing stabbing and hacking
Well made video. The sub will flood your channel soon. Keep up 🙌
The word “samurai” comes from the old Japanese word “saburau. This word denotes that they were at the side of the nobles to protect them.
Viagra? Did you just make a reference to Viagra while narrating Japanese history? Amazing!
Bakje- Wei (japan) were allies.
Don't we have genetic evidence showing where the people who colonized Japan came from? Not to mention the people who were already there...
All Japanese history is based whether it involves Yakuza or not.
Samurai - were ssaul-abi in Korean. Ssaul means "fight", abi means "grown man". Every Korean knows what it means but funny no Japanese knows what the word means or where the word comes from. There are hundreds, thiusansands of Japanese words just like that.
When did the land begin to be called "Nihon"? Could the "Hon" of "Nihon" refer to "Book"? Being that it is almost a certainty that the Yamato (at least) were actually Israelites (watch "The Roots of Japan Were Ancient Israel?" ruclips.net/video/kDrgMS78-ek/видео.htmlsi=h_DP15nPm5A_tFSi ), it would make sense.
What? Are you high?
My last name is Taira😎😆
marry edge ahh yes
Could women be considered samurai? And could you be a samurai without necessarily being a soldier? I.e., being a servant in other waya
While i didn't research this in detail yet, it seems like in some cases, women even served as soldiers! The cousin of Yoritomo that i mentioned in a video (the guy who took over Kyoto for a while) had a woman in his army who became quite legendary, her name was Tomoe.
Generally though, i guess the "servant" ranks were actually still pretty high ranks in society at the time, and with women rarely making it to high-ranking positions back then i'd say it was at least a very, very rare occurence!
Would be a very interesting future topic for a video though, thanks for the inspiration 😁
Women who were born into samurai families were raised in samurai martial traditions. However, they rarely carried swords as it was feared that there would be a new war every 4 weeks. 😉😁
@anikihistory I think I watched something about two pirates who were a couple they were ruthless and really successful they were japanese pirates please do a video on it.
No, women could not be samurai. However, they could be warriors in some cases. Onna bugeisha is what they are called. But Japan was still a patriarchal society.
If you don’t talk about the Saka in the origins of Samurai , then you don’t know the origins.
A nomadic central Asian people? Or the town near Hiroshima? That's what googling yeilded me.
@@iivin4233I googled it found “Sakai clan” think he must be on about that. Not sure 🤷🏻♂️
Emperor Saga?
The Yamato family from the 3rd Century exists till today. The current Japanese Emperors are Yamato.
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I'm Peter gradon a descendant of Rollo gradon the first vikingar king of Normans his younger brother was Rurik gradon the Rus or Roda some say because of his red hair actually it's Ruth's childs from Ruth red haired king David grand mother and the Rus line goes back Futher to before Abrahm of the Chaldeans or Celt eans the khaldi a Arya people in uratu in the caucasus king rusa then to us part gutia part Celt eans part shimerian Shinar shee Arya mostly blonde red haired blue eyed Arya people then who became the ebru Ivar Hebrews later after 400 years as slaves in Khem or Egypt and with the mostly blonde red haired blue eyed Arya mittani ruler Ankeny Aten Adonai Odin Yahweh god eloh Allah we came back to our homeland with Moses same racial type as the blonde red haired blue eyed mittani and hittites or hurrians .we are danites Vikings Norman we are also from the vaeringjar or varjager or varangian clan the de vere's as in my part de vere grand uncle sir Winston Churchill certainly a fierce Norman warrior we are the Israelites by our other names after 720 BC Beth khymry kimmerians scythians Saka saksons galls Celts guti goths and dan magi budinni kushars khazars hun Kan dan etc most went west into Europe but many also went east us venerators of enki danki Aten Adonai Odin Yahweh god eloh Allah others venerators of enlil elil baal Moloch devil
1:50 Japan stealing ideas from Persona since the literal dawn of time /j.
It was Persona that shaped Japanese culture all along, i knew it!
"When we think of japan today, this is what we think of... Samurai, Sushi, and Sailormoon..." is a more accurate opening...
Personally I believe the Japanese were more directly related to the Koreans. The similar, highly driven mindsets would be a clue.
The name samurai comes from samaryatians as in Beth khymry kimmerians scythians and ninja from the other name of sumeria Shinar Sina china sin ja ninja it was if you had some samurai nihonjin anscestory never shinobi
What?
🎉❤Sub Jutsu ❤🎉
I don’t know how you did it! You made the origin of the coolest warrior, extremely boring
Commercials every 4 mins! WTF?!?
Please people, seppeku means suicide. Hair Kiri means self disembowelment. Two separate words with different meanings