Well, it's less mercy and more like them killing themselves just to spite their enemy by not granting them the opportunity to kill them themselves. And if you think about it, inventing this custom was actually a pretty smart move, since the higher ups just had to spout some bs about honor or what not to make the soldiers kill themselves, thereby preventing enemies from gaining intel. Can't interrogate captives if there's no one left alive to interrogate.
@@sparkyspinz9897 That did occur, but as I said, it was forbidden and severely punishable. It wasn't a part of a samurai moral code or value system, it was just sociopathic or psychopathic criminals who happened to be samurai. Some of them were so-called kabukimono who were ronin criminal gangs. Since this was punishable by death (execution by cutting off their head) or forced seppuku, and since this was not a part of overall samurai way of life and values, it happened rarely.
@@sparkyspinz9897 sounds like young sparatans when they would be tasked to go out at night and stalk and murder a random homeless person as part of their training
Samurai: "Lowly farmer how dare you look me in the eye!" *decapitates poor farmer* Also Samurai when the farmer's son sneaks up to him and stabs him with a dagger: "This is dishonor..."
That's something that didn't happen, a samurai acquired a far bigger reason to kill somebody in fact this kind of thing really have lacking evidences for happening it's one of those laws that appears on paper but doesn't seem to be used in practice, we have records of peasants essentially playing chicken with samurai.
@@eagle162 how does one play chicken with samurai does he have a sword pointed in front of him and the peasant charge acting like a chicken at the samurai and you have like a 50 50% chance of getting stabbed in the chest
Here's a fact: Swordsmanship was not what the Samurai were originally best known for. They were mounted archers. And in combat their primary weapon when not using a bow was usually a polearm of some kind. Their swords were just sidearms. A last line of defense. And when not in battle their swords were worn more as a fancy piece of jewelry than a weapon.
The samurai also used firearms, and these weapons revolutionized japanese warfare at the time. In fact, it has been estimated that 25,000 matchlock guns, or 30 percent of all the guns in existence worldwide at the time were used at Sekigahara. In all of Europe, only 30,000 guns were believed to be in use.
@@MrKurayami yep. Those guys were professional soldiers. Tom Cruise's samurai might as well have been Scientologists. The Japanese did try manufacturing their own firearms but the metal they forged wasn't really that good. So after a few volleys the barrels would droop, earning the nickname "noodle guns". A few samurai were actually Catholics. They were converted by Jesuit missionaries. The samurai class did have a pedo thing where grown men buggered teens, so I assume both the Jesuits and the Samurai had something to bond over. Buggering kids. Oh, and the Catholic bit is relevant. Most of the firearms came through Nagasaki where there are remnants of the Portugese quarter. The Daimyo there was Catholic for a time.
A Samurai is a Warrior without a clear definition. Thus, they were Archers, Spearmen and musketeers, be it on land and mounted on horseback. As for Swords, they are more common than we think, though only in the right context, I.E, Sieges and ESPECIALLY Naval combat.
Samurai on the top of the hiercahry was during the edo era Which is from 1600s-1800s Although I agree that Japanese committed terrible war crime during wwii, samurai in this video are irrelevant to wwii
@@tyedior8467 the respect that police officers receive is simply incomparable to the Samurais of the feudal era. Shitty-ass pay & shit quality of service = Bad reputation
Fun fact: slaughtering some other lord's peasants did cause issues. Your own lord may forgive you, but you taking their dude's life meant lost labour to the lord.
to be frank, after looking up tsujigiri on wikipedia... this definitely happen, but wasn't really about samurai being really morally allowed by contemporary views to just cut down people for practice... such incidents mostly happened after dark, imagine that. And, hilarously enough, weren't always about testing swords - sometimes, it was samurai wanting to test out jujutsu moves (real martial art, direct precursos of judo) on struggling opponent. Still dangerous, but more ridiculous if you ask me... Tsujigiri was originally a term for duels between samurai... it degraded into random murders on commoners during the lawlessness of the Sengoku Period (1467-1600) and was actually outlawed in 1602, carrying death penalty... the wikipedia article actually mentions one notable case of a tsujigiri murder spree: "Yoshiwara Hundred People Slashing" - a murder spree of dozens of sex-workers in Yoshiwara, a red-light district of Edo; and, imagine that, the perpetrating samurai, despite being wealthy and of high-rank and good heritage, was executed. There's also a case of tsujigiri being grossly misrepresented for purpose of attacking the ideas of moral and cultural relativism... even though the argument hangs on tsujigiri being an accepted, condoned practice, which it wasn't. The other thing, about samurai being allowed to kill commoners for offending them - kiri-sute gomen - is true... although, even though we consider it overkill, still had rules regarding it, with the samurai being punishable even by death; shortly, aside from the fact that there had to be some provocation: - doctors and midwives were not subjectible to kiri-sute gomen when at work or heading to work - the strike had to be done immediately after the offence... no holding grudges to murder for later - if the strike landed, and the victim survived, the samurai wasn't allowed to finish them off. Also, in case of the target being a lower-ranked samurai, they could defend themselves with a wakizashi. - the samurai had to report the incident to nearby government official, having at least one witness, and had to basically self-home-arrest themselves for 20 days as proof of contrition. The weapon used could also be confiscated for 20 days, either for investigation, or as punishment if justification for attack was deemed feeble. So yeah, it is still shocking, and people died, sometimes legally, for laughable reasons, but samurai did not actually had right to kill random people at whim.
Genpuku has nothing to do with cutting fingers. It's a coming of age ceremony, where youths would take on their adult name, gain responsibilities, and generally change their appearance by way of dress and hair style to that of an adult. Finger cutting is yubitsume, and was a thing for gamblers. Not samurai.
The most crucial example of late shogunate era Tsuzigiri victim was British merchant Charles Lenox richardson....The Namamugi incident. The counter revenge by British royal Navy started the Sōnnō Jōi movement and so began the fall of the shogunate (Boshin war, Meiji restoration, Empire of Japan).
Wrong. That wasn’t a random attack; Charles blatantly and knowingly disrespected the samurai by riding through their formation. It did however play a role in the fall of an already struggling shogunate.
@@eagle162 legends =/= reality. In reality they were worse than bullies. Some of these bullies did great things and became idolized for it, but that doesn't change who they were in reality. The more you learn about Japanese history the more you realize this mythology around the samurai is just that, mythology.
Feudal Japanese Samurai: Randomly cut down unarmed civilians WW2 Japanese Soldier: Waged wars and committed massacres and human experimentations(Unit 731) Modern day Japanese: "We are peaceful and honourable people."😊
@@treyriver5676 I'm mean yes on a base level, knights is what inspired the name thugs because that's what they were, hired thugs and that is what samurais are too.
That's why they're called Samurai(those who serves), these people originally were mercenaries hired by Japanese nobles to protect their land, soon some nobles became Samurai themselves and started to take over the system by making the Emperor as nothing but puppet. Just like any warrior class, the popular image of honorable and dignified are co exist with their business of ruling by sword and continious warfare.
Although the emperor won at the end and cause shit in entire world aka world war 2. Edo period is the period where Samurais are straightened up and disciple to avoid this mess.
The defeated samurai after the satsuma rebellion would join the army in droves. It was these officers who would later take over the japanese government and do all the messed up stuff in ww2
Again the misconception that samurai could always freely kill commoners without punishment. That's simply not true - both the Tokugawa shogunate and the local han governments (every province ruled by a daimyo was called han 藩) had very strict rules about this, simply murdering commoners was forbidden and punishable.
Yes somebody who knows this, there's also little evidence for this, it's one of those laws that appears on paper but doesn't seem to be practiced much, you can find records of peasants essentially playing chicken with samurai.
also, note that there's a sharp difference between how the society and law worked during the Sengoku period, before it, and after it (during the Edo period)
its the case during sengoku jidai though, its chaos at that time, and the law is barely followed.Its only strongly prohibited after sengoku period ended.
@@ianMcFarlane112 During the Sengoku jidai the daimyo had their own provinces under strict control. The laws were obeyed because they were war-time laws and disobeying them meant seppuku or execution. The shogunate's laws weren't obeyed anymore, but the daimyo's laws were. You can check out the Koshu laws (also called Shingen kaho) of the Takeda clan as an example. Precisely during the Sengoku period samurai would not kill their own farmers - they needed those farmers for resources for the war effort. Killing the enemy's farmers and burning his villages to cripple his economy is another issue.
@@Perceval777 Even today there people who commit crimes even though we have strict laws. We even have Geneva Conventions today but lots of people still commit war crimes. Having a law doesnt mean people are invulnerable to do things that law forbids. And the video says killing random people, not specifically their own farmers. We even now have security cameras but some freaks doesnt bother to care doing bad things, what more when its 15th century and you can do anything horrible as long as youre not seen.
They wasn't just allowed to kill commoners that showed them disrespect, they was pretty much allowed to kill anyone other than the daiymo and the emporer, however, it was pretty much a bad idea to kill anyone that was above you without good reason and a few witnesses
You forget that there main weapon is not the katana. They use the Yari (spear), bow and arrow, and last but also the most surprising, Tanegashima (match long gun)
There’s some missing information to this. Samurai couldn’t just kill anyone they wanted. They had to legitimately prove that they were dishonored, with eye witness accounts and testimonies. If they weren’t able to prove their legitimacy in killing someone, the samurai in question could be severely punished. From being stripped of their title, to even worse… Ending his entire lineage (he and all of his family being sentenced to death via execution or committing ritual “unaliving themselves.”) During the time of peace, Japan had strict laws for weapons in public. Even for the Samurai. You couldn’t even show your blade in public, unless there was a legitimate reason to do so. Even this offense had severe punishments. Also, Samurai did test their blades on people… but they were on cadavers of convicted criminals, or criminals sentenced to death. They also utilized bamboo, tatami mats, bundled rice straws, and thin sheets of metal. Samurai didn’t go around, randomly killing people. Being in charge of land meant they were also responsible for their people. So it would be a great inconvenience if your farmers, fishermen, etc… were suddenly dead. Even samurai had dues to pay, stomachs to feed, and people to house.
Another crazy fact: they used guns. They didn't like it at first but when they witnessed it's efficiency, they all were like "Guns good!" and proceeded to arm their armies with guns.
Honorable Samurai on their way to “practice their sword skills” on an unarmed farmer family of 5, 37Km away because the other day one of them looked at them funny. Edit: Because it was night, the Samurai also decided to practice his torch throwing skills as well.
lesser known fact about tsujigiri is that is was heavily restricted and had to be immediately reported to their lord, after which their sword was taken and they were relieved of duty until it was decided whether they'd just murdered someone randomly or not
What an asshole move. Never mind it might be a father or a mother or just a human being Ooh I need to see if it’s sharp like you can’t test it any other way
That rarely happened. It was forbidden and punishable by both the Tokugawa bakufu and the local domain governments. Do you really think things like that happened every day, in every town on every street? The Edo period was one of the most peaceful, secure, safe and stable periods in Japanese history.
@@stinkfinga4918 Thats quite an extreme point dude lol, I like historical weapons and think the weapons Germany used in WWII were very interesting and like some german customs today, I still think the Nazie party was an extremely evil mark on Germany's history lol. Thats like saying I have to hold the same standards to the Viking era and not enjoy any aspects of it
@@slaphappy6705bro you being seriouse? cuz i dunno how to tell you this but...... they were very reall lool just cuz naruto is msde up dosnt mean ninja arnt lol might wanna look up somtjing besidea samurai
WW2 conceptions of Bushido were purely modern ones and had nothing to do with the old samurai house rules and laws. There is a huge difference between what Bushido was before the Meiji period and how Bushido was perceived and reimagined by the WW2 militarists.
@@swjdnansjdjs4224 Tsujigiri - testing your sword on commoners, rarely happened. It was considered a crime, forbidden and punishable by both the Tokugawa bakufu and the local domain governments. Do you really think things like that happened every day, in every town, on every street? The Edo period was one of the most peaceful, secure, safe and stable periods in Japanese history.
@@Perceval777 oh damn didn't know you were a samurai from 1600s thanks for clearing it up that it wasn't common because all these historical books and sites constantly slandering you guys
@@swjdnansjdjs4224 I was trying to clear up some misconceptions in good faith. But I can see by your disrespectful attitude it probably wasn't worth it... Have a nice day.
Wrong to say that it was a serious offense to kill random farmers. It was frowned upon , but perfectly legal. Like adultery in the west today. Bit rude and excessove, but legal
@@swjdnansjdjs4224 if two things have differences and/or similarities then they can be compared. Those two has many differences and things in common which can be compared. And in feudal japan they viewed killing farmers as morally similar to how adultery is viewed in the west. Perfectly ok and legal. Only immigrants and freaks think it should be illegal.
@@CTOSHLL Shinobi did... But Shinobi were Samurai. Shinobi were not Ninja. Shinobi were Samurai spies and used to hunt Ninja. And few people were as murderous as the Samurai. Samurai were monsters.
Ninja didn't hunt samurai. They were called shinobi, first of all, and they were spies and saboteurs, not assassins. And as was already mentioned, many of them were samurai. All the leading clans in Iga and Koka (Koga) were jizamurai - independent samurai who owned farmland.
@@Perceval777 Nice lie. Shinobi were spies and saboteurs and assassins. Shinobi were Samurai. Ninja were good people waging guerilla war against Samurai oppressor. Samurai were scum. 99% of Japan hated Samurai. Deal with it. Also, you are completely ignorant. Iga and Koga were not the only provinces that had ninja. There were Christian Ninja in the Satsuma rebellion, and the Ikko Ikki had ninja. Ever province had ninja.
farmers were very respected as a huge portion of the food they cultivated went to the lords who owned the land, and so they therefore were responsible for keeping the entire prefecture/province fed. Merchants may have been skilled but their items were imported and were more luxury rather than necessity like food. They were treated fairly poorly as their entirely livelihood rested upon taking money from others for small trinkets. Think of how salesmen are portrayed nowadays, that's how people saw merchants really.
Samurai also hated anything to do with the dealing of money, they considered themselves above the need to worry about such trivial matters as money. Merchants, lenders, or anyone who’s profession had to do with exchanging of currency was despised.
Simple - merchants didn't produce anything. They only took what farmers and craftsmen produced and sold it to other people. And as was already mentioned in another reply, samurai hated dealings with money (just like the Spartans, btw), so even though merchants were wealthier than peasants and craftsmen, they ranked lowest in the hierarchy.
*kills a random person for no reason*
“I was just practicing my skillz.”
SKILL ISSUES! -sam o ray
"hey thats rk"
"So sorry bro my cat was using my pc"
That's like GTA
Facts 💀💀💀
xD i think the police should not allow this
Imagine being in feudal Japan and you see a samurai quicksave 5 feet from you
oOf
I'm running away if he pulled a mk2
A read the 5 ft thinking that was the height of the samurai, then again a 5 foot tall samurai quick saving in front of you might be more terrifying
“Did it just lag?”
I don't get shit, could ya please elaborate on ya joke pal? lmao
Basically Samurai were gamers thinking every commoner was just random NPCs.
LMAOOOO
They're GTA characters
"Let me save real quick"
No wonder peasant ninjas threw dirt in thier eyes and stabbed them.
Wait.. did i get my Asians mixed up?😅😂
*Killed by passing samurai*
@@tobeyparker3459 ,
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Samurais: Honorable, loyal, and courageous
Also Samurais: fucking pricks
Most medieval soldiers turned out to be that instead of honorable
They have no honor
What 10 hours of alpha male giga chad tiktok edits a day does to the mfs
I mean, that’s pretty much with any profession, especially being a soldier/warrior
Watch your tongue, commoner!
Remember, their idea of mercy is you cutting your own stomach open
It could also mean you want to tell your boss you quit.
Also, you could show your enemy your disgust.
I mean I'd rather my men fight my enemies if I was absent, rather then kill themselves if we lose.
Well, it's less mercy and more like them killing themselves just to spite their enemy by not granting them the opportunity to kill them themselves.
And if you think about it, inventing this custom was actually a pretty smart move, since the higher ups just had to spout some bs about honor or what not to make the soldiers kill themselves, thereby preventing enemies from gaining intel. Can't interrogate captives if there's no one left alive to interrogate.
@@Sniper_4_LifeAlso some of it are also bounty. You can claim it if they kill themselves.
tou have a point , that part of Japanses culture is weird I hope they know God doesn't forgive killing yourself and does not see it as honorable :T
Kills unarmed farmer: 'I was training for battle'
😶.....
That rarely happened. It was forbidden and punishable by both the Tokugawa bakufu and the local domain governments.
@@Perceval777 i heard samurai would lie in wait at night for passebys and slice em up like bandits
@@sparkyspinz9897 That did occur, but as I said, it was forbidden and severely punishable. It wasn't a part of a samurai moral code or value system, it was just sociopathic or psychopathic criminals who happened to be samurai. Some of them were so-called kabukimono who were ronin criminal gangs. Since this was punishable by death (execution by cutting off their head) or forced seppuku, and since this was not a part of overall samurai way of life and values, it happened rarely.
@@sparkyspinz9897 sounds like young sparatans when they would be tasked to go out at night and stalk and murder a random homeless person as part of their training
Imagine walking down the street one evening and you see a samurai jump out of an alley and just fucking behead the guy in front of you and run away.
They probably wouldn’t run they would probably tell you to clean it up 😂😂😂
Actually, they will tell you to clean all the mess or you would be the next one
Shit they might behead you too 2 for 2 he's trying to make rank 😂
The average GTA when they get a new gun or car
Samurai: "Lowly farmer how dare you look me in the eye!" *decapitates poor farmer*
Also Samurai when the farmer's son sneaks up to him and stabs him with a dagger: "This is dishonor..."
It did cause issues sometimes. Imagine if John owes his lord labour or rice, and Steve kills him. Now Steve has to make up the labour somehow.
That's something that didn't happen, a samurai acquired a far bigger reason to kill somebody in fact this kind of thing really have lacking evidences for happening it's one of those laws that appears on paper but doesn't seem to be used in practice, we have records of peasants essentially playing chicken with samurai.
@@eagle162 how does one play chicken with samurai does he have a sword pointed in front of him and the peasant charge acting like a chicken at the samurai and you have like a 50 50% chance of getting stabbed in the chest
Then the farmers evolved into Ninjas.
@@knox7945 ninja were just samurai with highly specialised jobs. Think of them as special forces
Here's a fact: Swordsmanship was not what the Samurai were originally best known for. They were mounted archers. And in combat their primary weapon when not using a bow was usually a polearm of some kind. Their swords were just sidearms. A last line of defense. And when not in battle their swords were worn more as a fancy piece of jewelry than a weapon.
Yari and Yumi.
I'm tired of seeing that piece of shit katana being glorified.
The samurai also used firearms, and these weapons revolutionized japanese warfare at the time. In fact, it has been estimated that 25,000 matchlock guns, or 30 percent of all the guns in existence worldwide at the time were used at Sekigahara. In all of Europe, only 30,000 guns were believed to be in use.
@@MrKurayami yep. Those guys were professional soldiers. Tom Cruise's samurai might as well have been Scientologists.
The Japanese did try manufacturing their own firearms but the metal they forged wasn't really that good. So after a few volleys the barrels would droop, earning the nickname "noodle guns".
A few samurai were actually Catholics. They were converted by Jesuit missionaries. The samurai class did have a pedo thing where grown men buggered teens, so I assume both the Jesuits and the Samurai had something to bond over. Buggering kids.
Oh, and the Catholic bit is relevant. Most of the firearms came through Nagasaki where there are remnants of the Portugese quarter. The Daimyo there was Catholic for a time.
A Samurai is a Warrior without a clear definition. Thus, they were Archers, Spearmen and musketeers, be it on land and mounted on horseback.
As for Swords, they are more common than we think, though only in the right context, I.E, Sieges and ESPECIALLY Naval combat.
That and guns. They loved their guns.
That explains all of their war crimes in WW2
Samurai on the top of the hiercahry was during the edo era
Which is from 1600s-1800s
Although I agree that Japanese committed terrible war crime during wwii, samurai in this video are irrelevant to wwii
Blud samurais stopped existing ever since the edo era 💀
@@JerryDaBes
Irrelevant? Bruh, Japanese Imperial Soldiers are wannabe Samurais so they imply those Samurai Code to themselves as the video mentioned
samurais as shown in the OP stopped existing but they only evolved into the powerful military officials and politicians they are up to this day.
@@monakh_jcf2312 they're around for traditional purposes.
"All witnesses dead, bounty cleared."
*Two handed* *72*
*HUEH HUAH YAAHH*
That's brutal, things in the medieval era were terrifying
Fun Fact: Samurais were gun nuts. Once the Dutch sold them muskets, the samurai became obsessed with them.
sounds like a certain profession now in the modern times
Which one
@@hottudoggu7712 police officers
@@tyedior8467 except cops are near the bottom of the social ladder, and nowhere as cool as samurai
@@tyedior8467 the respect that police officers receive is simply incomparable to the Samurais of the feudal era.
Shitty-ass pay & shit quality of service = Bad reputation
@@raymondacbot4007Yakuza
Fun fact: slaughtering some other lord's peasants did cause issues. Your own lord may forgive you, but you taking their dude's life meant lost labour to the lord.
Passerby: bro that sounds like a skill issue 😂
Samurai: 🗡️💀
Daimyo: “Bro don’t do that thing where you test every new weapon you get on some random person.”
My dishonorable ass:
Samurai out here playing life like it's gta 😂
to be frank, after looking up tsujigiri on wikipedia... this definitely happen, but wasn't really about samurai being really morally allowed by contemporary views to just cut down people for practice... such incidents mostly happened after dark, imagine that. And, hilarously enough, weren't always about testing swords - sometimes, it was samurai wanting to test out jujutsu moves (real martial art, direct precursos of judo) on struggling opponent. Still dangerous, but more ridiculous if you ask me...
Tsujigiri was originally a term for duels between samurai... it degraded into random murders on commoners during the lawlessness of the Sengoku Period (1467-1600) and was actually outlawed in 1602, carrying death penalty... the wikipedia article actually mentions one notable case of a tsujigiri murder spree: "Yoshiwara Hundred People Slashing" - a murder spree of dozens of sex-workers in Yoshiwara, a red-light district of Edo; and, imagine that, the perpetrating samurai, despite being wealthy and of high-rank and good heritage, was executed. There's also a case of tsujigiri being grossly misrepresented for purpose of attacking the ideas of moral and cultural relativism... even though the argument hangs on tsujigiri being an accepted, condoned practice, which it wasn't.
The other thing, about samurai being allowed to kill commoners for offending them - kiri-sute gomen - is true... although, even though we consider it overkill, still had rules regarding it, with the samurai being punishable even by death; shortly, aside from the fact that there had to be some provocation:
- doctors and midwives were not subjectible to kiri-sute gomen when at work or heading to work
- the strike had to be done immediately after the offence... no holding grudges to murder for later
- if the strike landed, and the victim survived, the samurai wasn't allowed to finish them off. Also, in case of the target being a lower-ranked samurai, they could defend themselves with a wakizashi.
- the samurai had to report the incident to nearby government official, having at least one witness, and had to basically self-home-arrest themselves for 20 days as proof of contrition. The weapon used could also be confiscated for 20 days, either for investigation, or as punishment if justification for attack was deemed feeble.
So yeah, it is still shocking, and people died, sometimes legally, for laughable reasons, but samurai did not actually had right to kill random people at whim.
Most of the time those who did ended up being outlaws or Ronins if they escape punishment
The video said it wasn't allowed.
Imagine your juat chillin with your homie then and a samauri comes over and cuts him down in 5 seconds. Like dam what'd he do 💀
Genpuku has nothing to do with cutting fingers. It's a coming of age ceremony, where youths would take on their adult name, gain responsibilities, and generally change their appearance by way of dress and hair style to that of an adult.
Finger cutting is yubitsume, and was a thing for gamblers. Not samurai.
"My lord, you are in danger, let me kill this random family"
Samurai: now it's time for the KEEL test
The samurais didn't go away, they just changed their name to the Yakuza
No. Yakuza come from the lower sections. They borrowed the crazy self mutilation.
Samurais became the IJA and the IJN.
This is like saying that medieval knights became the mafia
@@pyro7358 actually the mafia was founded by a high level free mason which isn't too far off from the knights templar
Nope Yakuza comes from the lowest class of Japanese medieval hierarchy system
The most crucial example of late shogunate era Tsuzigiri victim was British merchant Charles Lenox richardson....The Namamugi incident.
The counter revenge by British royal Navy started the Sōnnō Jōi movement and so began the fall of the shogunate (Boshin war, Meiji restoration, Empire of Japan).
Wrong. That wasn’t a random attack; Charles blatantly and knowingly disrespected the samurai by riding through their formation. It did however play a role in the fall of an already struggling shogunate.
1930s Chinese: *trying to escape the chatroom*
Yo the background beat is absolutely amazing
The last one was actually a Yakuza thing
Me: chilling
*Insecure Samurai shows up
Me: :0
I think I've read somewhere that Samurai's were mostly seen as bullies than protectors.
That’s not hard to believe, they were gangbangers before gangbanging was gangbanging
@@ihatevice Thug Life, Edo Period 4 Life
No, you even have samurai that were considered folk heroes by their community, don't buy into this generalization.
@@eagle162 legends =/= reality. In reality they were worse than bullies. Some of these bullies did great things and became idolized for it, but that doesn't change who they were in reality. The more you learn about Japanese history the more you realize this mythology around the samurai is just that, mythology.
Yep they were just thugs, then later during japans edo period after war they had nothing to do so they made themselves into that image of "heros
Feudal Japanese Samurai: Randomly cut down unarmed civilians
WW2 Japanese Soldier: Waged wars and committed massacres and human experimentations(Unit 731)
Modern day Japanese: "We are peaceful and honourable people."😊
The samurai were the Japanese versions of knights.
Yes and no.. they were also men at arms and free companies .. and just like Knights myth and fact are conflated.
@@treyriver5676 I'm mean yes on a base level, knights is what inspired the name thugs because that's what they were, hired thugs and that is what samurais are too.
Imperial Guardsman: Stop right there!
People today: I wish to see a samurai
Medieval Japan:🗡🏹🥀☠
Everything aside but that "yoooooo" killed me 😂
That's why they're called Samurai(those who serves), these people originally were mercenaries hired by Japanese nobles to protect their land, soon some nobles became Samurai themselves and started to take over the system by making the Emperor as nothing but puppet. Just like any warrior class, the popular image of honorable and dignified are co exist with their business of ruling by sword and continious warfare.
Although the emperor won at the end and cause shit in entire world aka world war 2. Edo period is the period where Samurais are straightened up and disciple to avoid this mess.
Samurai: So, what do you think of my poem?
Me: Best I have ever heard.
The Japanese really invented the vibe check huh
The defeated samurai after the satsuma rebellion would join the army in droves. It was these officers who would later take over the japanese government and do all the messed up stuff in ww2
Please make more japanese history videos. They're exactly what I've been looking for
Just go watch" Shogo Your Japanese Friend in Kyoto". This video alone left out some important infos and instead added unnecessary infos
the samurai took the word triggered to the most extreme level
A famous samurai named akechi mitsuhide who betrayed oda nobunaga was killed by farmers armed with spears.
Again the misconception that samurai could always freely kill commoners without punishment. That's simply not true - both the Tokugawa shogunate and the local han governments (every province ruled by a daimyo was called han 藩) had very strict rules about this, simply murdering commoners was forbidden and punishable.
Yes somebody who knows this, there's also little evidence for this, it's one of those laws that appears on paper but doesn't seem to be practiced much, you can find records of peasants essentially playing chicken with samurai.
also, note that there's a sharp difference between how the society and law worked during the Sengoku period, before it, and after it (during the Edo period)
its the case during sengoku jidai though, its chaos at that time, and the law is barely followed.Its only strongly prohibited after sengoku period ended.
@@ianMcFarlane112 During the Sengoku jidai the daimyo had their own provinces under strict control. The laws were obeyed because they were war-time laws and disobeying them meant seppuku or execution. The shogunate's laws weren't obeyed anymore, but the daimyo's laws were. You can check out the Koshu laws (also called Shingen kaho) of the Takeda clan as an example. Precisely during the Sengoku period samurai would not kill their own farmers - they needed those farmers for resources for the war effort. Killing the enemy's farmers and burning his villages to cripple his economy is another issue.
@@Perceval777 Even today there people who commit crimes even though we have strict laws. We even have Geneva Conventions today but lots of people still commit war crimes. Having a law doesnt mean people are invulnerable to do things that law forbids. And the video says killing random people, not specifically their own farmers. We even now have security cameras but some freaks doesnt bother to care doing bad things, what more when its 15th century and you can do anything horrible as long as youre not seen.
Cutting off their little finger reminds me of the Yakuza
Another fact : there is no historical evidence that Tsujikiri was actually practiced.
Oh there is evidence. Everywhere occupied by Japan during WW2.
@@taotao98103 That's no EDO IDIOT
Only a bad samurai would get caught lacking
They wasn't just allowed to kill commoners that showed them disrespect, they was pretty much allowed to kill anyone other than the daiymo and the emporer, however, it was pretty much a bad idea to kill anyone that was above you without good reason and a few witnesses
They're basically Lord Knights, landed knights...
Yes
You forget that there main weapon is not the katana.
They use the Yari (spear), bow and arrow, and last but also the most surprising, Tanegashima (match long gun)
There’s some missing information to this. Samurai couldn’t just kill anyone they wanted. They had to legitimately prove that they were dishonored, with eye witness accounts and testimonies.
If they weren’t able to prove their legitimacy in killing someone, the samurai in question could be severely punished. From being stripped of their title, to even worse… Ending his entire lineage (he and all of his family being sentenced to death via execution or committing ritual “unaliving themselves.”)
During the time of peace, Japan had strict laws for weapons in public. Even for the Samurai. You couldn’t even show your blade in public, unless there was a legitimate reason to do so. Even this offense had severe punishments.
Also, Samurai did test their blades on people… but they were on cadavers of convicted criminals, or criminals sentenced to death. They also utilized bamboo, tatami mats, bundled rice straws, and thin sheets of metal.
Samurai didn’t go around, randomly killing people. Being in charge of land meant they were also responsible for their people. So it would be a great inconvenience if your farmers, fishermen, etc… were suddenly dead. Even samurai had dues to pay, stomachs to feed, and people to house.
Imagine just walking down the street while having a bad day and some random guy in an armor kills you because you didn't greet him lol
They didn’t walk around wearing armor…they just wore regular kimonos unless they were going to battle.
The REAL vibe check
Wu tang clan typa beat
Ah yes, the secret technique of "stabbing someone because why not"
Another crazy fact: they used guns. They didn't like it at first but when they witnessed it's efficiency, they all were like "Guns good!" and proceeded to arm their armies with guns.
I hear that at one time the number of guns in Japan was equivalent to that in all of Europe.
About time, people have to realize in days where weaponry existed, people weren't just gonna let it go to waste 💀💀💀
Everyone had issues.
People won't realize.
Willful ignorance
"In days where weaponry existed"
I'm so sorry for you, yurocuckistani.
Ok so…. The Holocaust was just because the Germans didn’t want the gas to go to waste 👍🏾
moral of the story don't start a society based on Lord and peasants
Honorable Samurai on their way to “practice their sword skills” on an unarmed farmer family of 5, 37Km away because the other day one of them looked at them funny.
Edit: Because it was night, the Samurai also decided to practice his torch throwing skills as well.
Honorable samurai😂😂 they were just hired thugs not making a joke that's what they literally were
Imagine walking down the street and one samurai suddenly jump up and chop off your hand and shout "It's a prank !!!"
辻切りは幕府の規律問題だから、江戸中期以降は切腹よ？
無礼討ちも処罰対象になったから、町奴が士分を挑発したりしたよ。
Midly jokes with samurai
Samurai: throws fit
Genpuku, is it what members of the yakuza do if they think they fail in something
Samurai is just RPG players without the ability to quicksave
I think I heard somewhere that genbuku is still practiced by the yakuza in Japan.
"I tested my sword in self defense"
Genbuku is still around here to stay... Though it's not in a very 'honourable' place anymore
It's amazing that from East to West, nobility were basically aholes. A lot of those mentioned can apply to knights too, except perhaps the finger part
Kirisute Gomen is the expression for a samurai killing commoners that disrespected them or their lords. It's also an album by Trivium.
lesser known fact about tsujigiri is that is was heavily restricted and had to be immediately reported to their lord, after which their sword was taken and they were relieved of duty until it was decided whether they'd just murdered someone randomly or not
That's one way to farm xp
"Tsujagiri was frowned upon" the killing of a human to test your weapon is "frowned upon". Shows the value they put on peasant life
It was a practice during the Sengoku era, when the country basically collapsed. The Tokugawa shogunate outlawed it not king after taking over.
Bro idk why they didn’t just respawn and say “RDM” and call an admin.
No wonder why Kenji was scared and apologized to jin sakai immediately when he didn’t show him respect.
Ghost of Tsushima
Samurai need to have a witness to back up his claim of being disrespected.
@@MorallyDubiousFrog yuna was with him.
That last one
Ever wielded a stick without a pinky
It has more to do with punishment than loyalty
Samurai were really the players in a GTA game
It’d be tight af to just be chopped in half while walking a donkey carrying watermelons back to my family by a samurai
That last one is still used by the Yakuza today.
That changed in 1878 though
Samurai the original: “Are you looking at me?”
What an asshole move. Never mind it might be a father or a mother or just a human being Ooh I need to see if it’s sharp like you can’t test it any other way
That rarely happened. It was forbidden and punishable by both the Tokugawa bakufu and the local domain governments. Do you really think things like that happened every day, in every town on every street? The Edo period was one of the most peaceful, secure, safe and stable periods in Japanese history.
Tsugiri is the latent gamer in all of us coming out
Samurai’s have an interesting background history. I love Japanese history and culture.
You like the idea of killing someone innocent to test your weapon?
@@stinkfinga4918You can like certain aspects of a culture without liking them all. Isn't that how it is with every single culture?
@@DavidVassleofYeshua not really, get back to me when anyone has anything good to say about nazis lol
@@stinkfinga4918 Thats quite an extreme point dude lol, I like historical weapons and think the weapons Germany used in WWII were very interesting and like some german customs today, I still think the Nazie party was an extremely evil mark on Germany's history lol. Thats like saying I have to hold the same standards to the Viking era and not enjoy any aspects of it
@@stinkfinga4918 What does Nazi has anything to do with this?
Another fact: Samurai's never use their katanas when fighting, they mainly use bows and spears. The sword is just there to look cool.
No.
“Disrespect” could honestly just be an excuse for a psycho to go on a killing spree cause it’s not like anyone could prove it with no witnesses
Ironically, Ninja were the ones that actually practiced honor and loyalty where samurai only preached it.
ninjas aren't real.. you know that, right?
@@slaphappy6705 they were pretty real pre 1850
@@slaphappy6705bro you being seriouse? cuz i dunno how to tell you this but...... they were very reall lool just cuz naruto is msde up dosnt mean ninja arnt lol might wanna look up somtjing besidea samurai
Farmers were above craftsman lmao
Also proving swordsmanship on unarmed and untrained commoners of the own reign, very honorable.
Doesn't the Yakuza also do Genbuku?
They cut off the entire pinky finger, i forgot the reason why, either due to offense or from a yakuza member leaving the yakuza
"It was a dick move, but it was mkay."
I swear these guys had the most twisted idea of honour out of all civilizations. Just look at the after math during ww2
WW2 conceptions of Bushido were purely modern ones and had nothing to do with the old samurai house rules and laws. There is a huge difference between what Bushido was before the Meiji period and how Bushido was perceived and reimagined by the WW2 militarists.
@@Perceval777 I mean. Doesn't seem very different considering it was "frowned upon" to test out your swords on villagers.
@@swjdnansjdjs4224 Tsujigiri - testing your sword on commoners, rarely happened. It was considered a crime, forbidden and punishable by both the Tokugawa bakufu and the local domain governments. Do you really think things like that happened every day, in every town, on every street? The Edo period was one of the most peaceful, secure, safe and stable periods in Japanese history.
@@Perceval777 oh damn didn't know you were a samurai from 1600s thanks for clearing it up that it wasn't common because all these historical books and sites constantly slandering you guys
@@swjdnansjdjs4224 I was trying to clear up some misconceptions in good faith. But I can see by your disrespectful attitude it probably wasn't worth it...
Have a nice day.
Loved Odawara Castle. One of my favorite places to visit.
Wrong to say that it was a serious offense to kill random farmers. It was frowned upon , but perfectly legal. Like adultery in the west today. Bit rude and excessove, but legal
You compared murdering unarmed peasants to cheating on your lover 💀
@@swjdnansjdjs4224 if two things have differences and/or similarities then they can be compared. Those two has many differences and things in common which can be compared. And in feudal japan they viewed killing farmers as morally similar to how adultery is viewed in the west. Perfectly ok and legal. Only immigrants and freaks think it should be illegal.
@@swjdnansjdjs4224 he compared how the acts were *viewed* and *reacted upon* in respective times and places. Learn to read.
@@adzi6164 I did read it's a bit of stretch to compare murder and adultery. Learn to read
you wrote he himself compared murder to adultery. While he didn't.
*kills random person for the 5th time this week*
"I was just being sure my sword works"
And now you know why Ninja hunted samurai.
Idk but I'm sure ninja did bad stuff. Everyone was murderous back then.
@@CTOSHLL Shinobi did... But Shinobi were Samurai.
Shinobi were not Ninja.
Shinobi were Samurai spies and used to hunt Ninja.
And few people were as murderous as the Samurai.
Samurai were monsters.
Not all Ninja were samurai
But many samurai were ninja
Ninja didn't hunt samurai. They were called shinobi, first of all, and they were spies and saboteurs, not assassins. And as was already mentioned, many of them were samurai. All the leading clans in Iga and Koka (Koga) were jizamurai - independent samurai who owned farmland.
@@Perceval777 Nice lie.
Shinobi were spies and saboteurs and assassins. Shinobi were Samurai.
Ninja were good people waging guerilla war against Samurai oppressor.
Samurai were scum. 99% of Japan hated Samurai. Deal with it.
Also, you are completely ignorant. Iga and Koga were not the only provinces that had ninja. There were Christian Ninja in the Satsuma rebellion, and the Ikko Ikki had ninja. Ever province had ninja.
"can I test combo?"
Exactly like Knight during Medieval era And Legionnaire during Roman era
😁
No
Not legionairre tho . But can be applicablr to some special guards
Not remotely the same 😂
@@patriotenfield3276 no roman soldiers could do any of these
@@patriotenfield3276just rape murder and thievery the legionaries were scum
Villians in any anime be like:
Bro this music makes me wanna go back to Japan 1945
If you want to feel the full might of the US airforce 😂
Samurai were quick to talk about "honor" but show none
That social pyramid must be BS. How come a farmer has a higher social class than a merchant? That’s ridiculous!
farmers were very respected as a huge portion of the food they cultivated went to the lords who owned the land, and so they therefore were responsible for keeping the entire prefecture/province fed. Merchants may have been skilled but their items were imported and were more luxury rather than necessity like food. They were treated fairly poorly as their entirely livelihood rested upon taking money from others for small trinkets. Think of how salesmen are portrayed nowadays, that's how people saw merchants really.
Samurai also hated anything to do with the dealing of money, they considered themselves above the need to worry about such trivial matters as money. Merchants, lenders, or anyone who’s profession had to do with exchanging of currency was despised.
Simple - merchants didn't produce anything. They only took what farmers and craftsmen produced and sold it to other people. And as was already mentioned in another reply, samurai hated dealings with money (just like the Spartans, btw), so even though merchants were wealthier than peasants and craftsmen, they ranked lowest in the hierarchy.
Unbelievable!
@@brettadkins7563 Thank you!
No wonder the NINJAS rose up against them.