Life in Edo Japan (1603-1868)

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  • Опубликовано: 3 дек 2024

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  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  5 лет назад +1923

    Let's take a tour of Edo, Japan's capital (now Tokyo) during the Tokugawa Period. 🗻

    • @georgewashingtonthe184th6
      @georgewashingtonthe184th6 5 лет назад +7

      My time 1:52 am

    • @smidgey9187
      @smidgey9187 5 лет назад +11

      Simple History thanks for teaching me so much history

    • @cjhero20yt82
      @cjhero20yt82 5 лет назад +5

      Thanks

    • @BlueTyphoon2017
      @BlueTyphoon2017 5 лет назад +11

      Simple History it’s says this comment was posted 4 days ago but the video was just uploaded…wtf?😂

    • @BlueTyphoon2017
      @BlueTyphoon2017 5 лет назад +5

      Simple History do you think you can do some videos on imperial Japan’s brutality during world war 2?

  • @josephabshier5844
    @josephabshier5844 4 года назад +4458

    I love how the person who did subtitles quit after like 2 sentences

    • @jeongminkim4409
      @jeongminkim4409 4 года назад +426

      And yet Simple History approved it.

    • @enemy8497
      @enemy8497 4 года назад +285

      this is me doing any work in general

    • @TheDestinedMonkee
      @TheDestinedMonkee 4 года назад +66

      Yeah, hopefully they fixed it

    • @rumuelnathanael8043
      @rumuelnathanael8043 4 года назад +179

      This video is a year old and they haven't fix it.
      Kinda unprofessional if you ask me.

    • @claytonpactol8851
      @claytonpactol8851 4 года назад +25

      @@rumuelnathanael8043 Ja.

  • @redrocket604
    @redrocket604 5 лет назад +5168

    "Open the country, stop having it be closed" said the United States

    • @Wesugi
      @Wesugi 5 лет назад +759

      *knock, knock* It's the United States. With huge boats. With guns. Gunboats.

    • @ron-ronrecinto2376
      @ron-ronrecinto2376 5 лет назад +218

      they couldnt really do anything about it so they signed a contract to let america and britain to come to the country to trade

    • @baseddepartment285
      @baseddepartment285 5 лет назад +164

      Now it's:
      "You have oil I need to close you"

    • @og_synth3843
      @og_synth3843 5 лет назад +72

      Ahh bill wurtz

    • @emanuelquetejodan4156
      @emanuelquetejodan4156 5 лет назад +45

      OPEN UP, FBI

  • @benchmarking6875
    @benchmarking6875 5 лет назад +3063

    Japan - Is Isolationist
    USA - Ends Isolationism
    Japan - Turns into a imperial empire
    Usa - :O

    • @AureliusLaurentius1099
      @AureliusLaurentius1099 5 лет назад +160

      samuel haley
      USA-Your free time of living has now expired

    • @ApersonIguess-rb6fu
      @ApersonIguess-rb6fu 5 лет назад +129

      USA ends the imperial empire

    • @judesantos8120
      @judesantos8120 5 лет назад +150

      Imperial empire
      On today's episode of redundant redundancy

    • @nene_san
      @nene_san 5 лет назад +110

      USA - ends imperialism
      Japan - pacifism
      USA - *Trump*

    • @qaiser648
      @qaiser648 5 лет назад +39

      samuel haley lmao saying imperial empire is like saying democratic democracy

  • @apolodelimalimon
    @apolodelimalimon 4 года назад +725

    Great English subtitles, I absolute adored them, they were enriching and empowering. I mean, so powerfully written and so accurately composed. Brillinat.

    • @nerfcontent9429
      @nerfcontent9429 3 года назад +2

      Ikr

    • @alexdragen250
      @alexdragen250 2 года назад +10

      This might be obvious but is this sarcasm

    • @apolodelimalimon
      @apolodelimalimon 2 года назад +13

      @@alexdragen250 well, taking into account that the subs are two sentences long.... whadja think

    • @alexdragen250
      @alexdragen250 2 года назад +2

      @@apolodelimalimon yeah... It was stupid of me to ask

    • @TypicalIndian1981
      @TypicalIndian1981 2 года назад

      He abs homework

  • @Etherion195
    @Etherion195 4 года назад +624

    Capital before the deciding civil war: "KYO-TO"
    Capital after the deciding civil war: "TO-KYO"
    ...

    • @vmerkwurdigliebe3751
      @vmerkwurdigliebe3751 4 года назад +65

      Actually Kyōto and Tōkyō.

    • @paprikaa117
      @paprikaa117 3 года назад +8

      @@vmerkwurdigliebe3751 same thing

    • @vmerkwurdigliebe3751
      @vmerkwurdigliebe3751 3 года назад +47

      @@paprikaa117 Kyou is the same, literally capital. Tou and To are not same.

    • @matthewmammothswine4395
      @matthewmammothswine4395 3 года назад +17

      Neither of them are written in English my guy, check the Kanji, they have different meanings.

    • @jaydenmercado1195
      @jaydenmercado1195 3 года назад +5

      @@vmerkwurdigliebe3751 there no “U” in Kyoto or Tokyo

  • @alilirara
    @alilirara 5 лет назад +4543

    "Japan has isolated itself from the rest of the world for over 200 years, until the Americans came and said, "you're gonna trade with us and you're gonna like it"

    • @fenkers3249
      @fenkers3249 5 лет назад +276

      Trade by definition can only exist if two or more people willingly engage on it. What happened in Japan was that the commoners saw forening trade as usefull but the nobility forbidded it for selfish or tiranical reason's.

    • @bigmike9128
      @bigmike9128 5 лет назад +44

      Same thing with korea

    • @attiepollard7847
      @attiepollard7847 5 лет назад +73

      @The Liberal Capitalist that was not good enough. I am very sure someone in Japan seen that the times was changing and it was time to be with the other countries.

    • @superbird4351
      @superbird4351 5 лет назад +57

      I see we have a woman of culture here.

    • @adnitesean5005
      @adnitesean5005 5 лет назад +27

      In result these samurai dies infront of US howitzer, gatling gun, winchester etc.
      And they can't be blamed cz they train japanese to be the emperor army so it's looks like a civil war but in my opinion it's not

  • @whatever7645
    @whatever7645 5 лет назад +2659

    A Samurai entered the "pleasure" district.
    This angered his father who used to punish him severely.

  • @gentaillahi6153
    @gentaillahi6153 4 года назад +191

    *"The Country of a Samurai", It's been a long time since our country was called this. Samurai once daydreaming while looking into the Edo sky. Now, foreign ships come through*

  • @gocommitgotospaceoxygennot375
    @gocommitgotospaceoxygennot375 5 лет назад +58

    My teacher showed us one of your videos that i watched, it was cool to see a channel that I watch a lot at home, being brought to school. Thanks Simple History :D

  • @epg96
    @epg96 5 лет назад +1487

    Next video
    Life in Majapahit era
    Life in Joseon era
    Life in Khmer Empire era
    Life in The Phillipines under American colonial era
    Life in North America before American revolution
    Life in British Raj
    Life in Ottoman Empire
    Life in German Empire
    Life in Austro-Hungarian empire

    • @ejmuerterisefromthedead8924
      @ejmuerterisefromthedead8924 5 лет назад +12

      Is this from patreon update next???

    • @AtlasNL
      @AtlasNL 5 лет назад +33

      Evan Pangaribuan
      Life in the Dutch Republic
      Life in medieval/Victorian England
      Etc.

    • @omfgspoon7
      @omfgspoon7 5 лет назад +15

      Most of those would actually be very interesting

    • @idontknowwhereiam5801
      @idontknowwhereiam5801 5 лет назад +46

      Life in Stalinist USSR
      life in fascist germany
      would be interesting to i think

    • @losilluminados3729
      @losilluminados3729 5 лет назад +1

      Yes.

  • @patrickweber8750
    @patrickweber8750 5 лет назад +1206

    Japan: *Isolationism*
    USA: I don't think so.
    Japan: *Ends Isolationism*

    • @majorblitz3846
      @majorblitz3846 5 лет назад +41

      JP: *Close the door*
      US: Ara ara, Shut-in Neet, Open the door and your pants, stop having it be closed.
      JP: *Open the door*

    • @patrickweber8750
      @patrickweber8750 5 лет назад +12

      @@majorblitz3846 U.S.A. should have focused on the Reconstruction of the South.

    • @Predator42ID
      @Predator42ID 5 лет назад +14

      @@patrickweber8750 Can't rebuild the south with warships so might as well send them across the pacific.

    • @patrickweber8750
      @patrickweber8750 5 лет назад +1

      @@Predator42ID Add them with Union troops then you can. And most of the problem around this time was a racist President.

    • @Predator42ID
      @Predator42ID 5 лет назад +5

      @@patrickweber8750 Lincoln wasn't racist or is every president minus Obama racist to you.

  • @poweroffriendship2.0
    @poweroffriendship2.0 5 лет назад +3397

    *_The moment when a Weaboo goes to Edo Japan and there's no signs of subtitles everywhere._*
    *Weebs:* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

    • @_hre8542
      @_hre8542 5 лет назад +43

      Nooooo

    • @RodneyLim03
      @RodneyLim03 5 лет назад +79

      Pfft inaccurate! They would say no in Japanese

    • @rn-zu5ld
      @rn-zu5ld 5 лет назад +86

      @@RodneyLim03 yeah nein

    • @_hre8542
      @_hre8542 5 лет назад +36

      @@RodneyLim03 but hey atleast there is still a dubbed version see?

    • @thenorthstarsamurai
      @thenorthstarsamurai 5 лет назад +17

      Heheheh jokes on you i’m japanese and i study 国語 (Japanese study)
      Hahahahahaha

  • @tammyr.5203
    @tammyr.5203 5 лет назад +387

    Everything in Samurai Champloo makes so much more sense now

    • @infinitetundra
      @infinitetundra 5 лет назад +31

      Same lol I'm still searching for the Sunflower scented Samurai.

    • @tammyr.5203
      @tammyr.5203 5 лет назад +13

      @@infinitetundra Haha still? Guess it's time for another adventure to find him!

    • @Prich319
      @Prich319 5 лет назад +4

      Even the zombies?

    • @tammyr.5203
      @tammyr.5203 5 лет назад +14

      @@Prich319 nah, they was just havin fun with that episode lol

    • @OneMic3
      @OneMic3 5 лет назад +13

      Lol funny I was looking up the Meiji period because I started rewatching Rurouni Kenshin which is based off that era.

  • @MsFrostitute
    @MsFrostitute 5 лет назад +68

    When I was a history mentor, this era was without a doubt my favourite to teach about.
    Thank you guys so much for making this!!

  • @zuko1569
    @zuko1569 5 лет назад +1050

    Long time ago, the Japanese people lived together in harmony. But then, everything changed when anime attacked
    _The 4th Great Ninja War erupted and changed Japan forever_

    • @UNclear-sv1iq
      @UNclear-sv1iq 5 лет назад +17

      Greek Ball ive always wanted to visit japan, hows life there

    • @IEatBears4Breakfast
      @IEatBears4Breakfast 5 лет назад +17

      As a 4th grade ninja emperor this comment offends me

    • @IEatBears4Breakfast
      @IEatBears4Breakfast 5 лет назад +5

      @Greek Ball and does this kind of comments offend you?

    • @RodneyLim03
      @RodneyLim03 5 лет назад +33

      Only Filthy Frank, the master of all four races could stop them but when the world needed him the most, he vanished..

    • @jolotabani
      @jolotabani 5 лет назад +5

      Weebs…

  • @fluffysquirrel8385
    @fluffysquirrel8385 5 лет назад +454

    9:46 When you missed a day of class and everyone is so far ahead of your time.

  • @garypulliam3740
    @garypulliam3740 5 лет назад +55

    Merchants might have been among the "lower classes" but many merchants were very wealthy and very influential with regards to government policies and politics in general. A key detail that you fail to mention.

  • @GoldfishCorner
    @GoldfishCorner 2 года назад +25

    During the fall of the Samurai class in the late Edo period, breeding goldfish become a Samurais' second job for income. In fact, Samurai was the first goldfish keepers in Japan back in the 16th century. Ranchu, Ryukin, and Tosakin are the 3 signature breeds developed by Samurai

  • @adolfgaming1761
    @adolfgaming1761 5 лет назад +160

    *”W-Where are the Subtitles”*
    -Filthy Frank

  • @EngPheniks
    @EngPheniks Год назад +11

    I've watched Japanese Samurai movies and shows such as The Last Samurai, Shogun TV series, 13 Assassins, 47 Ronin and this video is among those I admired the most in your channel.

  • @mayuri4184
    @mayuri4184 4 года назад +179

    Tokugawa wanted Japan to avoid Western values, only for the Meiji restoration to adopt some of it. I think Japan melded traditional and Western values very well, and they have [for the most part] done it in their own terms, making the modern Japanese culture we know [and love (at least in my case)].

    • @reddytoplay9188
      @reddytoplay9188 2 года назад +6

      There is problem though in regards to how it incorporated individualism and collectivism, namely they sucked at implementing it and have made it hard for a Japanese couple today to start a family and get married.

    • @homersimpson5497
      @homersimpson5497 2 года назад +13

      Yeah the blending of values was great, until they massacred unholy amounts of Chinese, Phillipino, and even Japanese, citizens. Their ancient values led to them being literally worse than nazis, the terrible acts they committed would make mengele blush!

    • @EliasRoy
      @EliasRoy 2 года назад +4

      @@reddytoplay9188 Absolutely. Western individualism has ruined Japan

    • @wifi961
      @wifi961 2 года назад +4

      @@homersimpson5497 They took the German values a little too close to heart. Should’ve taken the American values honestly.

    • @reddytoplay9188
      @reddytoplay9188 2 года назад +6

      @@EliasRoy suuuuureee

  • @Blankzzz1000
    @Blankzzz1000 5 лет назад +9

    I swear to god every time I start to look into a subject of history, about a week after, Simple History uploads a vid regarding the topic. Every. Single. Time.

  • @MinusIsDeceased
    @MinusIsDeceased 5 лет назад +71

    This music makes me feel like I'm about to be tutorialized on how to make ramen

    • @mingchenwei1978
      @mingchenwei1978 3 года назад

      cause ramen is the easiest japanese dish, coming from an japanese person 😂

  • @TrueDeathless
    @TrueDeathless 5 лет назад +4

    This is the most jam packed 10:21 video I've ever seen!
    Thanks for all the info

  • @constantinius233
    @constantinius233 5 лет назад +133

    Suggestion: Do a video about the Daco-Roman Wars

    • @firepower7017
      @firepower7017 5 лет назад +1

      Byzantine Empire!
      Also. You may call us Virgin Thot Commies but at least we ain't Arrogant Weeb Facist

    • @constantinius233
      @constantinius233 5 лет назад

      @oh no oh well thanks for telling me that

  • @ChongiFishing
    @ChongiFishing 5 лет назад +11

    Finally, an acient episode I have been waiting for one.

    • @MsFrostitute
      @MsFrostitute 5 лет назад

      this was only 400-200 years ago :)
      The Heian era and before is truly ancient ;)

  • @4517onlyglory
    @4517onlyglory 2 года назад +34

    Japan is the most preserved nation on the planet for its classical culture and the most creative country on culture and industry, purely phenomenal

    • @EngPheniks
      @EngPheniks Год назад +9

      While neighbouring powers fell quickly to advancing European colonizers, Japan was a very tough nut to crack and even Portuguese navigators find it hard to colonize. It being isolated and remote was one advantage. The Island had a strategical advantage. Only after Meiji restoration, Japan opened up for the rest of the world. Japan was never colonized, rather it in fact attained a status of being an imperialist power just like its European counterparts.

    • @avecxesar
      @avecxesar Год назад +5

      @@EngPheniks it was also the fact that japan had barely any resources

  • @doopiedoo8915
    @doopiedoo8915 2 года назад +24

    I love the Edo Period so much. It's so beautiful and pretty.

  • @rosaria8384
    @rosaria8384 5 лет назад +12

    During the Tokugawa era, the Nihonbashi was the center of five kaido that began in 1601. The major highways of today's Japan roughly follow the route of the kaido (Route 1, 2, etc), collectively known as Edo Five Routes.
    There was the Tokaido that connected Edo to Kyoto and had 53 stations (and had an artistic interpretation by Utagawa Hiroshige). It merged with Nakasendo (hitting the center of Honshu, has 69 stations).
    Then there was the Koshu Kaido with 44 stations that ended at modern Yamanashi before merging with Nakasendo, then the Oshu terminating at Mutsu Province (today's Fukushima Prefecture, had 27 stations), and the Nikko Kaido that terminated at modern Tochigi Prefecture with 21 stations.
    These routes' stations had border control functions. Also, today's Tokaido Shinkansen follows roughly the Tokaido route.

  • @FirehawkSHD
    @FirehawkSHD 5 лет назад +75

    Life in Edo Period?
    _Cue Gintama Opening Music_

  • @kitchengorilla5346
    @kitchengorilla5346 5 лет назад +155

    Amazing how an undesirable plot of land became the capital through Tokugawa Ieyasu's dream and hard work.

    • @takebacktheholyland9306
      @takebacktheholyland9306 5 лет назад +11

      * Cough * Cough * Oda nobunaga *Cough *

    • @rareELL
      @rareELL 5 лет назад

      Ello now whats all this 👮

    • @kitchengorilla5346
      @kitchengorilla5346 5 лет назад +13

      @@rareELL before Tokugawa was given Edo by Toyotomi Hideyoshi it was a backwater. Many of his retainers thought it an insult to their lord Tokugawa. Yet he saw the potential of a place that could rival Kyoto. It is a fascinating point in Japanese history.

    • @kitchengorilla5346
      @kitchengorilla5346 5 лет назад +6

      @@takebacktheholyland9306 Oda Nobunaga had been dead for a number of years before Tokugawa Ieyasu began his work on Edo.

    • @rokball4892
      @rokball4892 5 лет назад +7

      Kitchen Gorilla This life never imagined in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. During that time people have suffered the destruction of the three wars, flood, drought, disease, and exploited by corrupted local landlords, governors, and royalties. The peasants and farmers devote their lands and become slaves to pay their depth. This is tragedy and dark history of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea.

  • @Hanif_A_F
    @Hanif_A_F 5 лет назад +214

    Japanese name:"exist
    Random weebo:"its free real estate"

    • @jqa16
      @jqa16 5 лет назад +8

      Those weeabs disgust me

    • @oceanaelf
      @oceanaelf 4 года назад +1

      @Maranda I don't know if you have figured it out already but a weeaboo is a person who denounces their own culture/land/traditions and puts japan on a weirdly inappropriate pedestal.
      They take part in cultural appropriation, learn most of their "knowledge" of japan from anime/manga and probably collect swords and ninja stars..
      Filthy Frank has a while video dedicated to weeaboo's, I reccoment you watch it, it's good fun.

    • @torusuetsugu2353
      @torusuetsugu2353 4 года назад

      I no right 😅

  • @gigiparis5654
    @gigiparis5654 5 лет назад +36

    *This is 568th reason why I love Japan! 🗻🇯🇵☀️*

  • @spicyair710
    @spicyair710 5 лет назад +21

    Seemed like a good life in the Edo period, cracking open a sake with boys and enjoying a nice play.

    • @krzysiusisiu
      @krzysiusisiu 3 года назад +1

      Unless you were a woman

    • @waliddrissi8370
      @waliddrissi8370 3 года назад

      @@krzysiusisiu Who cares about women

    • @krzysiusisiu
      @krzysiusisiu 3 года назад +3

      @@waliddrissi8370 yeah im not a woman so not my problem

  • @RodneyLim03
    @RodneyLim03 5 лет назад +337

    Our men are running from the battle field SHAMFRUL DISPRRAY!

    • @bc4life862
      @bc4life862 5 лет назад +3

      Oh the memories

    • @callemtheone7925
      @callemtheone7925 5 лет назад +1

      Tactical retreat to defeat them at our strong point

    • @arvyocheda749
      @arvyocheda749 5 лет назад +3

      The enemy runs like a heathens from a preacher sir...

    • @c-man9406
      @c-man9406 5 лет назад

      ringing ears, blurred vision, the end approaches....

    • @BasedAlaric
      @BasedAlaric 4 года назад +3

      ZIS IS A BURRACK DAY MAI RORD! OUR GENEROL HAS FOLLEN!

  • @neoandroid4203
    @neoandroid4203 5 лет назад +179

    Can you do a video of the m2 browning? Thanks!

    • @neoandroid4203
      @neoandroid4203 5 лет назад +6

      @Age Master MT History Leader/Master yea, true, but i think the m2 served the us everywhere, so i thought it'd be important enough

    • @Gladiator34B
      @Gladiator34B 5 лет назад +1

      They should do a video on the SKS

    • @crocowithaglocko5876
      @crocowithaglocko5876 5 лет назад

      YES

    • @anon2427
      @anon2427 5 лет назад

      Neo Android check out the RUclips channel “Forgotten Weapons” he has some really great stuff!

    • @m1a2abrams52
      @m1a2abrams52 4 года назад

      HEY! HOLD IT DOWN! ITS A MACHINE GUN!
      HAHA! OK!
      *ERIKA INTENSIFIES

  • @Lunarhermit4637
    @Lunarhermit4637 5 лет назад +22

    Nothing happens:
    Samurai: Disguises self in order to see what's going on

  • @diaryofagoat-lass1023
    @diaryofagoat-lass1023 5 лет назад +20

    Whenever I watch videos on the edo period, I always remember the Shinsengumi samurai. Best knows for breaking down the “born a Samurai” idea and would hire and train men from all walks of life to serve the shogun as samurai. The 3 highest ranking men in Shinsengumi were all from farming families but attained their rank through sheer skill with a sword.

    • @matthewmammothswine4395
      @matthewmammothswine4395 3 года назад +4

      They weren't necessarily samurai though, more like a secret police force. Similar to say the FBI in america. They did the bidding of the Shogun.

    • @diaryofagoat-lass1023
      @diaryofagoat-lass1023 3 года назад

      @@matthewmammothswine4395 they weren’t exactly a “secret” police force as the would patrol the streets both day and night. Anyone who saw that sky blue and mountain pattern haori, knew exactly who They were.

    • @matthewmammothswine4395
      @matthewmammothswine4395 3 года назад +1

      @@diaryofagoat-lass1023 I meant more in the elite status they held, but ya you are right. Elite police force is more accurate.

  • @blueguitar4419
    @blueguitar4419 5 лет назад +12

    It was called a 250 year hostage crisis. The Japanese name for alternate attendance and noble family hostage keeping was “Sankin-Kotai”

  • @pointly
    @pointly 5 лет назад +37

    Talk about the Meiji Restoration please!

  • @jabg4717
    @jabg4717 5 лет назад +441

    this is japan before the anime rule japan

    • @Nolongerhereanymore
      @Nolongerhereanymore 5 лет назад +16

      Hey you know if they used anime design to make Japan's history
      That would be cool

    • @rokball4892
      @rokball4892 5 лет назад +12

      Jabg This life never imagined in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. During that time people have suffered the destruction of the three wars, flood, drought, disease, and exploited by corrupted local landlords, governors, and royalties. The peasants and farmers devote their lands and become slaves to pay their depth. This is tragedy and dark history of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea.

    • @LAV-III
      @LAV-III 5 лет назад +2

      The golden age

    • @gigiparis5654
      @gigiparis5654 5 лет назад +21

      That's just an internet myth. I live in Japan. Most Japanese adults don't even know and watch anime that much.

    • @Retrovorious
      @Retrovorious 5 лет назад +1

      Blanket Man The Epic Fanfiction Writer hetalia is pretty close.

  • @lordheadass5251
    @lordheadass5251 5 лет назад +46

    You guys should do a video about the Navajo's code Talkers

  • @unknownmf2599
    @unknownmf2599 5 лет назад +3

    I like your channel! You are fair and honest. Keep it up!

  • @tonymoncayo2790
    @tonymoncayo2790 5 лет назад +2

    You do amazing work don’t stop the amazing history videos

  • @mrcarrot5697
    @mrcarrot5697 5 лет назад +16

    Plz host a Deathmatch with the Infographics Show on who loves Wix the most please.

  • @Finn-gw9hh
    @Finn-gw9hh 5 лет назад +61

    Life in the netherlands 1940-1945
    Could you make a video about it

    • @TijnsFilmpjes
      @TijnsFilmpjes 5 лет назад +20

      It sucked, the end.

    • @justadudepassingby5716
      @justadudepassingby5716 5 лет назад +1

      That escelated quickly

    • @mrnoname9086
      @mrnoname9086 5 лет назад

      No

    • @GundamReviver
      @GundamReviver 5 лет назад +2

      "and afterwards, generations of Dutch people wanted their bicycles back"

    • @tostie3110
      @tostie3110 5 лет назад

      How about the rest of the history with some interesting small stuff?

  • @Mike-kg7nz
    @Mike-kg7nz 3 года назад +27

    People's life in Edo was amazingly good, considering that they didn't have a colony to make other country's people work hard for their benefit.

    • @LevisH21
      @LevisH21 3 года назад +4

      yeah, sure. many countries were like this in the Medieval Age, actually.
      maybe we should keep in mind the fact that maintaining a colony is pretty difficult and costs money. an empire would have to spend money to build better infrastructure and military bases or fortifications and the soldiers to protect the new colony.
      most of the time, countries even during the Medieval Age had alliances.

    • @dyflin3246
      @dyflin3246 Год назад

      And then WW2 happened

    • @badinaser2282
      @badinaser2282 Год назад

      @@dyflin3246 Japan is better than France

    • @dyflin3246
      @dyflin3246 Год назад

      @@badinaser2282 Okay?

  • @doot9695
    @doot9695 5 лет назад +69

    Japan: I wish to keep to myself
    America: *points cannon with malicious intent* nah uh.

    • @aperson8473
      @aperson8473 4 года назад +8

      Japan: Ok fine **Proceeds to conquer Asia**
      USA: **Points nukes with malicious intent** nah uh.

    • @AndrPt
      @AndrPt 4 года назад +1

      USA: *Let's 2 nukes slip*
      USA: It was uhmm a accident, we good right?

  • @VinayMenon222
    @VinayMenon222 5 лет назад +41

    "On that day, The Japanese received a grim reminder. They lived in fear of the outside world and were disgraced to live in these cages they called isolationism"

    • @Random17Game
      @Random17Game 3 года назад +4

      inspired Isayama to AoT

    • @taranmangat6688
      @taranmangat6688 3 года назад +1

      Cannot tell if this is an AOT reference or not, I'm guessing it is

  • @whiterunguard5316
    @whiterunguard5316 5 лет назад +8

    Now this, is Epic

  • @Jack-Hands
    @Jack-Hands 5 лет назад +33

    You guys completely failed to mention Dejima, Japan's only link to the outside(western) world for over 200 years.
    How could you forget that?!

  • @Guppyg53
    @Guppyg53 5 лет назад +3

    I love how the architecture looked. Really pretty

  • @rokball4892
    @rokball4892 5 лет назад +12

    This life never imagined in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. During that time people have suffered the destruction of the three wars, flood, drought, disease, and exploited by corrupted local landlords, governors, and royalties. The peasants and farmers devote their lands and become slaves to pay their depth. This is tragedy and dark history of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea.

    • @이동연-c6d
      @이동연-c6d 5 лет назад +5

      ROK Ball Yes it is. There is no doubt that the Joseon Dynasty was totally shithole. During that time, 50 percent of the population of Korea was a slave.

  • @randomobstacle9705
    @randomobstacle9705 5 лет назад +2

    5:31 *omg* rice on the bottom and shrimp on top is just
    *F___ING AMAZING*

  • @bejopaijo5819
    @bejopaijo5819 5 лет назад +34

    Please make a video about bakumatsu era, boshin war, and meiji revolution🇯🇵

  • @dutyofcall7659
    @dutyofcall7659 5 лет назад +67

    *USA:* you gonna trade with us and you gonna like it
    *Japan:* ok....

  • @Grissbane
    @Grissbane 5 лет назад +52

    Where's Zuko in the background screaming HONOR!

    • @marrqi7wini54
      @marrqi7wini54 5 лет назад +1

      That's the fire nation you useless peasant.
      Also I think he likes Korea better.

    • @jesseling6672
      @jesseling6672 5 лет назад

      In the trash.

  • @andreaedoresearch
    @andreaedoresearch 6 месяцев назад +1

    Edo folks would have totally dug this take on their lifestyle! 😊 They had a great sense of humor and a sharp eye for social details. I love how the video highlights the constant fires in Edo-it’s amusing yet historically significant. Those fires really made the firemen some of the most admired men in town. Wow!

  • @5747589
    @5747589 11 месяцев назад +5

    Blue eyed samurai brought me here. Till this video i though “Shogun” was that specific character’s name xD

  • @vincentmalab3289
    @vincentmalab3289 5 лет назад +11

    Next please make about life in Meiji Japan.

  • @dimamatat5548
    @dimamatat5548 4 месяца назад +3

    Edo Japan:
    1618: I sleep
    1648: I sleep
    1756: I sleep
    1776: I sleep
    1799: I sleep
    1815: I sleep
    1848: I sleep
    1853: *knock-knock. It's the United States*

  • @LovleyLemonade
    @LovleyLemonade 3 года назад +3

    This video reminded me of Samurai Camploo. One of the best animes ever.

  • @fweenoe9501
    @fweenoe9501 3 года назад +1

    These are his/their best videos, not all the WW2 and Vietnam stuff but older cultural and social-economical history

  • @TheNecessaryEvil
    @TheNecessaryEvil 11 месяцев назад +6

    I wish we’d get more movies set in a fantasy world of Japan similar to this time period. Like Japanese D&D with their mythological monsters

  • @MultiJohn108
    @MultiJohn108 5 лет назад +5

    We really need more of japan it is indeed interesting and you could probably do life during the sengoku period too

    • @bigpaint3337
      @bigpaint3337 Год назад

      Life during the sengoku period: death

    • @badinaser2282
      @badinaser2282 Год назад

      @@bigpaint3337 Japan is better than France

  • @indexlibrorumprohibitorum6523
    @indexlibrorumprohibitorum6523 5 лет назад +33

    Love ❤️ Edo Japan 🇯🇵 very much, It looks really interesting here
    Love ❤️ From Vietnam 🇻🇳

    • @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122
      @VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 5 лет назад +2

      Commie detected. You need some western capitalist democracy.

    • @Nestalgba92023
      @Nestalgba92023 2 года назад

      @@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 Nah, Vietnam is already much free-er than Communists run China, and their bride invaded countries.

  • @LemonCat98
    @LemonCat98 5 лет назад +160

    8:50
    *Knock knock*
    It's the United States...🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @kazumasatou1418
    @kazumasatou1418 3 года назад +2

    this video is explained so smooth this is why I keep coming back.
    Also what us the music called?

  • @landonbaytown
    @landonbaytown 5 лет назад +1

    the one video I never knew I wanted!!

  • @X_A_ic
    @X_A_ic 5 лет назад +53

    Why dies life look so perfect in Japan regardless of the decade? Street food, temples, fireworks!
    Well besides maybe Imperial Japan

    • @datboi8921
      @datboi8921 5 лет назад +16

      Because ur a weeb

    • @Guppyg53
      @Guppyg53 5 лет назад +21

      The architecture is beautiful and the culture is exotic to you, but you would probably think differently of you were a commoner in the Edo period

    • @heinzmustermann8416
      @heinzmustermann8416 5 лет назад +6

      @@Guppyg53 true

  • @lochlainkennedy3166
    @lochlainkennedy3166 5 лет назад +65

    Could you please do the siege of Tobruk

    • @PDShredz
      @PDShredz 5 лет назад +4

      great idea!

    • @larsxo9775
      @larsxo9775 5 лет назад +3

      That would be an awesome idea. 2 of my great-(or great great) uncles fought and died there.

  • @mediumrarebeefhammer7094
    @mediumrarebeefhammer7094 5 лет назад +41

    I love Japanese culture. It’s a beautiful culture.

    • @mozambique9113
      @mozambique9113 2 года назад

      culture of sIavery, infanticide, and abuse of power by the ruling class

    • @6ANUR34DT81S
      @6ANUR34DT81S 2 года назад +4

      Japan was cool before anime ruined it

    • @woofer3284
      @woofer3284 2 года назад +6

      @@6ANUR34DT81S Anime is cool too but I don't like how people who make fun of them or those who like them on every single god damn youtube video about Japan. I am sure those people haven't watched even a single anime other than memes regarding it.

    • @Flyingpotatos
      @Flyingpotatos Год назад

      Japan was cool until hentai ruined.

    • @bigpappa4041
      @bigpappa4041 Год назад

      @@Flyingpotatos
      Japan sucked until Hentai improved it

  • @plagued_assassin6030
    @plagued_assassin6030 5 лет назад

    The animation is getting better

  • @romanNood1es
    @romanNood1es 4 месяца назад +1

    It’s crazy how rapidly Japan changes after the Edo period.

  • @jolotabani
    @jolotabani 5 лет назад +31

    Can you do video about 1600s Finnish Hackapells? Thanks!

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 5 лет назад +40

    Do Portuguese colonization of Angola and Mosambique

  • @cheekybreeky2534
    @cheekybreeky2534 5 лет назад +6

    As a Japanese thanks for making a video of Edo Japan ! ;)
    Simple_history には感謝でござる

  • @ansonpayne1410
    @ansonpayne1410 4 года назад

    Excellent video....very insightful!!!

  • @billnelson5870
    @billnelson5870 2 года назад

    Sir! I am standing on my couch right here in my living room giving you a standing ovation! Damn good video!

  • @jaren4560
    @jaren4560 5 лет назад +18

    Emperor-president
    Shogun-prime minister

  • @aksingla.4943
    @aksingla.4943 3 года назад +5

    I love the Japan and its people.

  • @Mordecai9052
    @Mordecai9052 4 года назад +4

    "Alright, this is where my journey ends. Ur subtitler has to go to his hw rn so i cant subtitle no more for y'all."

  • @applepieclub5012
    @applepieclub5012 4 года назад +1

    It's cool that sushi has been around for so long

  • @getingfood1517
    @getingfood1517 2 года назад

    i was doing a project on this, many thanks keep up the good work :)

  • @jonah9046
    @jonah9046 5 лет назад +7

    Amazing video - I'd love to see a video on both World War's submarines with this quality! Love it.

  • @ezioleonardo17
    @ezioleonardo17 5 лет назад +28

    US: you wanna open your markets and trade with us?
    Japan: no
    US: sure you don't want some refreshing coke?
    Japan: I changed my mind

  • @phoryanryan6822
    @phoryanryan6822 5 лет назад +6

    Yeah another history vid!
    One vid=3 weeks of history classes

  • @fireaza
    @fireaza 5 лет назад +2

    The interesting thing about Commodore Perry is he's seen in Japan, not as a wicked foreigner who forced Japan into a trade agreement under threat of violence, but as a beloved historical figure!

  • @austinwalker7064
    @austinwalker7064 3 года назад

    Way more chill then i thought

  • @Kyle-Towner
    @Kyle-Towner 5 лет назад +21

    I really like this one mostly cuz I'm very intrigued with Japanese culture and history 👌👍

    • @Kribothegreat
      @Kribothegreat 5 лет назад

      Weeebou

    • @kamikazer6484
      @kamikazer6484 5 лет назад +5

      @@Kribothegreat he said he's JUST interested in their culture, is that being a weeabo?

  • @Themultiroleman
    @Themultiroleman 3 года назад +6

    So this is where Inazuma in Genshin Impact got its inspiration.

    • @changsiah2
      @changsiah2 3 года назад

      and many other Japanese theme but ya

  • @paulpalacio4096
    @paulpalacio4096 5 лет назад +4

    This is just like a day in gintama

  • @jsfbr
    @jsfbr 5 лет назад

    Thanks for the class!

  • @backpackingvillager1480
    @backpackingvillager1480 5 лет назад +1

    All Shogun Titled Films of 70s to 80s are so good! There are stories with Great natural acting!

  • @dariustiapula
    @dariustiapula 5 лет назад +19

    "Everything was in harmony. Than the United State attack."

    • @m1a2abrams52
      @m1a2abrams52 4 года назад +2

      Not attacked, just bought stuff.

    • @matthewmammothswine4395
      @matthewmammothswine4395 3 года назад +1

      @@m1a2abrams52 sorry buddy, "buying stuff" usually dosent involve threats from warships lmao

    • @amazononedayshipping2627
      @amazononedayshipping2627 3 года назад +1

      @@matthewmammothswine4395 people might be violent

    • @Taima
      @Taima 3 года назад +1

      @@matthewmammothswine4395 It also wasn't an attack though

  • @gwenminor9244
    @gwenminor9244 3 года назад +6

    It's really touching to learn at the end of the video that Edo, a city full of history and culture became Tokyo
    That's why they're like that city a lot

  • @nathanhensn8717
    @nathanhensn8717 5 лет назад +14

    I thought it was going to be a Godzilla origin story.

  • @lavenvalen5403
    @lavenvalen5403 2 года назад

    Thank you! This is helpful

  • @reveriest
    @reveriest 5 лет назад +2

    Cool video! Could you do a video about Shoguns?