ANIMATED Three Unifiers of Sengoku Japan - The Life and Death of Nobunaga, Hideyoshi & Ieyasu 

The reason why the Sengoku era's history is so captivating is because there were just so many contradictory records written by different factions and legends. Unlike imperial China, where there was an official history written by a central authority, different retainers from different clans write their own version and experience regarding the period. So, depending on which version they use, and which version's events they leave out, you can always create a Taiga drama about. the same period. LOL!

there is another saying about the three unifiers I think is apt. it's about a songbird. "If the bird doesn't sing, I will kill it." says Nobunaga. "If the bird doesn't sing, I will make it." Says Hideyoshi. "If the bird doesn't sing, I will wait until it does." Says Tokugawa,

Who else is on a Sengoku period kick because of the new amazing Shogun series?

There is a word to describe the unification of sengoku Japan. Oda Nobunaga mix the ingredients, Toyotomi Hideyoshi bake the cake and Tokugawa Ieyasu ate it.

"Go to his father funeral" "Threw incense" "Refuses to elaborate" "Leaves" What a chad

いや、凄いですね。 こんな日本の歴史に興味を持ってくれて、しかもわざわざCGまで作って。 感心しました。

Since castles in the early Sengoku were rude affairs, building one overnight isn't as impossible as it might sound. Floors above the Bailey were usually of wood construction. Stringing silk banners between endposts was how one made a command center in the field. From a distance, a silk walled castle looks as convincing as any. Workers can build the wooden walls behind the silk banners all the while, so that, when an enemy tests the construct, it has become a real castle.

*A bird was presented to the three unifiers* Nobunaga: Sing little bird or i will have you killed. Hideyoshi: Sing little bird or i will force you. Ieyasu: Sing little bird, i will wait forever.

Really love your presentation! Especially the colors and art, whenever i listen to other lectures and the pictures on the slides are black and white my brain goes blank sometimes so i really appreciate the effort you put in visuals!!

Chaotic indeed! Thanks for the most coherent rendition of these events I ever stumbled across

Yes! I loved your complete Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. Thank you!

This channel has gone above and beyond in delivering quality history content. Wonderful presentation that makes the complicated events easier to understand. This really fills in the knowledge gaps from my Samurai Warriors 5 education.😆

Nobunaga pounds the mochi, Hideyoshi mixes the mochi while Ieyasu sits on his ass and eats the mochi.

Oh my goodness! This was so interesting and easy to understand! I am ashamed to say that although I knew the major players from the Sengoku era, I never knew how all the pieces connected! Thank you and I'll be watching your other videos for sure!

This sounds so exciting! You are by far my favourite youtuber!

amazing documentaries, good job

Thank you so much for such great historical videos!

Wow! This is the most detailed and interesting retelling that I could find so far :)

I've been watching RU-vid for years, I think it's the best channel I've watched so far, thank you for your efforts man.

This was a surprisingly clear and coherent history of a very chaotic period… with no ads too!? Very well done. Subscribed.

Great video bros!

What great video! Very detailed and you also explored multiple possibilities and presented the contradictions between several records. This video must have taken so long to make so let's appreciate what Cool History Bros are doing!❤

Your channel is amazing. One of the best history channels on RU-vid.

Excellent work here Sir

Fantastic work as always! Glad I waited to watch these as a feature-length film to avoid the nail-biting cliffhangers through-out. This way we get the happy ending of unprecedent peace for centuries of Tokugawa rule.

Some fictions about why Mitsuhide betray Oda Nobunaga are wild: like Nobunaga became a vampire, or Hideyoshi provoked him into doing it, there's one where he survived & became Ieyasu adviser on how to take everything from the Tomotomi as revenge on Hideyoshi

Amazing :) Makes me appreciate playing NiOh even more. Thanks for making this.

Excellent work ❤

Your videos are phenomenal. You deserve all the success the future will bring

Thabk you for the great video

That was awesome 😎👍

BROO!!!! THIS CHANNEL DESERVES A SUBSCRIBE!!!

Great video

Excellent presentation

Best video ever, I had no idea about japanese history but it was super clear

完成度が高い動画です👏👏👏 驚きました！　👀❕✨

This is probably the most entertaining video on this period. I’m hooked. Lol

Epic !

Bro these are great. How had I not found these before?

Great video! Thank you!

Your scale to showace different important events happening in same time is really helpful

How does this not have more views? This is amazing!

Why the hell do you have less than 100k subs? One of the best history youtube channels (and -the best- on Chinese history).

First time viewer, instant subscriber!

Is that Kouzuki Musashi? 😆 Great video btw, the narration complemented with animation really help to understand everything.

Nice

Its always interesting to see a video on the unifiers, but have you guys ever considered doing something on the origins of the Sengoku Jidai and the Onin War?

Your videos are so good, I always wanted to know the story to Dynasty Warriors and Nobunaga's Ambition but didn't wanna pick up a book. lol Plus the visual's help it not feel like I'm listening to a lecture that was uploaded to youtube - like some of the other overview videos.

Awesome.

Amazing series! Akechi's story changes depending on what depiction you're into at the moment. In some, Akechi was a tragic hero doing what he did for Japan. In others, he's a madman who betrayed Nobunaga for fun. Then there is the theory that Akechi was a Buddhist that took issue with Nobunaga killing so many of his faith. There is a different motive in every depiction I've encountered. But, many characters are the same, having multiple characterizations. Its actually something I love about the period. Every character is a mythological character as much as a historical one. Thanks for making this series! Definitely a "must watch" for those interested in the Sengoku period.

Could you imagine being the Emperor of Japan forced to just sit an watch as all these wars are being fought over being Shogun and you have literally almost on say in watch happens in regards to your Empire’s future, and all your best Generals and warriors are just killing each other, plotting and scheming rather than building up alliances, all while western Empires are slowly but surely creeping their way closer and closer to your shores. What a fucking headache that all must have been.

This channel is underrated

Thank you Cool History and to my childhood game "Warriors Orochi", for bringing me to learn these history of different countries.

Your art of Miyamoto Musashi and his two sword style looks eerily like Kouzuki Oden 😳 that's not a bad thing, it's a nice touch!

I think Akechi Mitsuhide betrayed Nobunaga because he was persuaded and bribed by Ashikaga Yoshiaki. It was Mitsuhide that brought Yoshiaki to Nobunanaga, so they had a connection and open communication. Yoshiaki was probably crying to Mitsuhide, "You promised Nobunaga would help and serve me, but he's only serving himself and using me. This is your fault. But tell you what, if you take his head, I'll give you titles, lands and castles...promise."

great respect for your work, this channel is amazing. i have no idea why you dont even have 80k subs. it should be 8million, and if u just keep on like this, i think you will reach that point. i think what is most outstanding on this channel compared to other similar ones is that you dont just list some facts and illustrate some pictures around them, there is a grand narrative wich you follow. this can only be done with a great understanding of history itsself. its not just counting down events, like then this battle happened, and then this battle happened, and then that battle happened, like a machine gun ratatatata blasting some corner stones into your brain at a pace that is much too high. its actually more like a real story that you can follow and understand. and i would like to encourage you to focus even more on that part. dont be scared to go into detail, like explain the characters more deeply for example. the way your are doing it, i bet it wont be boring at all, it will make the story more colorful, relatable, exciting and easier to understand. dont just list facts and events, tell a story. and dont be afraid to slow down the pace a little bit here and there. i mean, whats up with hideyoshi holding sandals in his hands all the time, for example...do you think your random western viewer knows all this stuff, or why did you leave it out? for me as a western person its almost impossible to keep track of all that strange names (to my ears, ofc). that really is a big big problem i think. when you are going too fast i cant keep up, at all, and get totally confused. really, keeping track of names and the corresponding characters is the most difficult thing for me. try to make that easier, and youre channel will soar the heavens like a dragon. this might sound super super rude, and i apologize in advance. but, still, there is nothing that i can do about it really. so im just gonna go ahead: you have no idea how much easier it would be for me to read about the 3 kingdoms for example when you dont have a liu bei, a guan yu, and a zhan fei, but instead just call them ben, joe and fizz. (maybe even think of some fictional family names. maybe some names related to the real names...some clever acronyms, i dunno... ) i know, i know, plz dont hurt me. but still: i think if you really wanna teach the essence of your culture to the whole world (i bet 99% of your audience is not chinese), it would be way more effective to do it like this, instead of insisiting on keeping the chinese names in the honor of chinese culture, if you know what i mean. if you dont believe me, try it out. i think that if instead of a few thounands you reach millions of people, your ancestors might foregive you for a little bit of a rocky translation of names, for you are spreading chinese culture as a whole like a tiger that has grown wings.

It's really fun pausing the video and searching for the newly introduced characters as a samurai warriors character so I know who you are talking about, specifically SW 4, since that's what I am more familiar with.

😍🤩 so awesome

Years after teaching me to play D&D, this man is now teaching me about the warring states period. Truly a legend.

good!　幾つか今では誤りとされてる古い学説もあるけど、それ以外は丁寧な解説で良き。

I just finished playing Samurai Warriors 5 and I played out everything you covererd in this. I know some fans are tired of everything being centered on Nobunaga but it makes sense to make this one focused on him and Mitsuhide.

A genuine thank you

Get the popcorn out and enjoy

Cool Fact: The Portuguese landed in the island of Tanegashima, just south of Kyushu, with their European arquebus long guns. Tanegashima would become the name of the rifles used by the Japanese later on. Named after the Lord of the island at the time, Tanegashima Tokitaka.

First good video. Loved it! Now I love this era and have strong Emotions for it and it's people...SCREW YOU, IEYASU, YOU FAT TANUKI!

we need all war generals of sengoku era like date masamıne and yukimura sanada also many others please make an episode about all of them🙏luv your channel

1:06:25 for those wandering the left side is Chikuri-in while the right side is Komatsu Honda or famously known in warriors franchise is Ina

i cannot stress this enough... your channel is definitely THE BEST when it comes to pronouncing foreign words. It is so very clear to me that you put in the effort to learn and try to pronounce things as natively as possible. other channels always say "forgive my pronunciation" but it is so obvious that they didn't even take the time to go to google translate, something so simple.... kudos to you my bro, and everyone that is involved with cool history bros; for the dedication and effort put into these videos. im not 100 sure how portuguese people would pronounce nossa senhora da graca, but for future reference that little tail in the C in graca, means that the C is pronounced like and S. so it would be "grassa" instead of "graka", which means grace.

说得非常的好

nice i hope u can tackle gouryeo empress chunchu jin dynasty and the chinese dynastys bro

6:42 × Owari no Otsuke → ○ Owari no Utsuke

It is interesting that the first two rifle muskets, one for sample and another to be disassembled and studied, were copied, improved, improvised and reproduced by Japanese craftsmanship. This made Japan a nation which produced the most of rifle muskets in the world and prevented Portugal and Spain and the other European nations to invade and colonize Japan by sending missionary first then conquer that is the way they conquered in South America.

I'm surprised that most of this clan is still a big family in the modern age. This is why I love to use Oda Nobunaga faction in video games

I love the amount of yari ayashigaru used in this video 🤣

Great stuff so much better than any western explanation of Japanese history

Ohhh Yasuke rolled with Nobunaga! So cool. I didnt know this

What would be nice is seeing a video on the heian period of Japan

Out of three unifiers, Nobunaga was the true innovator.

This is a Sengoku history that is very faithful to the current interpretation.

Meiji era is one of the best eras in Japan's history. They featured it in anime.

Nobunaga basically have anything that someone needs to be the greatest unifier yet at the same he also have everything someone needs to be the most brutal ruler. As you said, he is a very unique product of the period. In just a decade, he rises from just a ruler of a small territory to one of the most dangerous threat in Sengoku era of Japan

Your videos are really entertaining and informative! My friend 羊駝 enjoys your videos too 🦙

Takeda Shingen & Uesugi Kenshin, lengendary warlords with the most powerful generals under their command, the only 2 who can stop Oda Nobugana, => Died because of some bullshiet things Personally, i feel so bad for Takeda clan, they are really strong and have alot famous clans as their vassals like Sanada clan, who become the present of the Samurai spirit in late Sengoku period

Hell yea

Rise and Fall of Three Unifiers of Sengoku Japan

Please make a new series about the life of Minamoto yoshitsune this story isn't told much but it I think it's worth!

Oichi-no-Kata and Yodo-dono. Videos introducing the three great unifiers often omit the women, but I think they are indispensable. They are properly woven in this video, and it is the thread that connects the three unifiers vertically. It’s a little bit pity Oeyo is omitted, who is youngest daughter of Oichi and sister of Yodo and married to Tokugawa Hidetada the second shogun. I hope you pick Oichi and her three daughters someday in the future for the theme of a video.

This would make a good anime🔥

おお全部見てしまった　初めて聞いた説も多くて楽しめました　1:14:55 家康はoshogoではなくogosyo（大御所）です

@46:36 So much for Hideyoshi creating a happy Japan.

very very nice！ 日本語で聞きたいです！

Play Nioh 1 and 2. They delve greatly into the lore of all these guys and almost every notable Japanese legend and folklore

Ever thought about doing the history of the uk in the same format?

Animation is crisp

The quiet Eurobeat in the background during the "Hideyoshi the Speedster" section was *chef's kiss*.

38:48 Nobunaga was forced to commit seppuku. Ranmaru was one of the betrayers. They were going to have a guy to cut off Nobu's head, but at the last second Nobu smacked the guy to go away, and the man performed Seppuku the old style, stayed alive for around 40 mins.

And now, Nagoya has three unifiers again. They are... Ichiro (Baseball player) Akio Toyoda (The president of TOYOTA) Souta Fujii (The youngest six crowns of shogi). As a fellow Nagoya resident, I am very proud of these three.

Like Nobu-'s way of getting motivated

I'm so glad to see yasuke be brought up as a black man living in japan love to see out place in japanese history

lol, the Sanada trolling the Tokugawa army!