History Summarized: Samurai 

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Note: only rich and powerful people could hire samurai. Poor people who could not afford to hire samurai did not hire samurai.

@@CryoJnik The Samurai became organized and powerful More powerful than the government

Marc Nassif then meiji era happened

@@emileroberge9459 You seem to be missing some important culture I recommend you watch bill wutrz's "history of japan". It's quite enlightening

Marc Nassif i saw the vid a long time ago

Yes. They are more like our favorite toys to play with in every way.

Also didnt alot of tje more romantic stuff about the bushido come from hirohitos rule in japan?

The masked Ninja in all black was also made up - by the Japanese themselves.

@@Alias_Anybody Yeah. Those costumes come from Kabuki Theater. The stage hands wore those outfits whenever they went on stage to move props around, so sometimes they'd have an actor playing a ninja wear one to hide themselves from the audience. Because of that, the outfit ended up being associated more with Ninja in media outside of Kabuki.

It's not close, but similar to how USA made out cowboys in 20-60 media I think

I mean he said it was inaccurate that doesn't mean it isn't cool as all hell

@@mr7sythes Lol, true

Naginata were wielded in praxis only by males. The only difference is that female members of the samurai class learned limited fighting skill with the short katana, and to be ruthless and receice more education. Naginata was a normal samurai weapon, because it is a good weapon. For females probably too, becaus spears dont need that much skill and strengh to be effective.

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@Kshitij RajNow I don't believe you on that point. Women can be just as vicious and violent as men. In fact in a lot of early cultures, the war gods were female ie Morrigan, Kali, Sekhmet. Heck even Athena was a goddess of war. Remember the amazons? They're not just a myth. Though they had both men and women fighting. Same with the celts, vikings, Spartans (Though the Spartans were more about home defence.) And there's probably a ton I've missed in Africa (I really need to do more research on African history.) It's really only in the modern times where women have been prioritised over their baby making facilities above all else... And also try researching the amount of women who've dressed up as men to go and fight... It'll surprise you.!

@Kshitij Raj Actually female samurai were not uncommon, they were members of the warrior nobility (Bushi) and called Onna-Bugeisha. they were trained to use the Naginata, Kaiken, and Tanto. they were very much home defense, they protected the household or villages when the men were away or if there wasn't enough men. they're far older than samurai and continued right into samurai times where there are many accounts of female participation in battle. in Japan some testing was done on corpses and about 30% of the corpses away from castles (where female casualties were more common) were female. they served as spies quite often, and there were some units in history that were fully female, like Ikeda Sen led a force of 200 women, it was a teppo unit (gunners). so in the context of sengoku japan where the samurai were especially famous saw quite a bit of female warrior, the most famous is probably Ginchiyo Tachibana.

@Kshitij Raj Try reading a book instead of making assumptions based on your sexist notions on what a woman can and can't be.

Tell that to literally everyone in the future, because they and the evil goop-overlord keep calling him Samurai XP

Aku's probably insulting him, the rest don't know what Japan is XD

Jack was trained in Samurai style combat so he kinda is a Samurai just not a serevent

He's a Samurai. Even the Daimyo were considered to be samurai. Even the Shogun.

What i'm basically saying is that in Tokugawa Era Japan, Jack would be at the top of the totem pole not the middle with the Shogun, Daimyo, Samurai, and Ronin. Besides Jack wasn't really trained as a samurai. He was trained in every combat style he could get his hands on including sword combat.

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Love your channel as well, especially the Jericho Sword, surprisingly Advanced for the time! See you there.

Note: only reach important people hired samurais, poor people who could not oford to hire a samurai didn't hired a samurai.

Артур Чугай it's a reference to the film the Seven Samurai.

Tiffany Rivas it's a reference to history of Japan

Robert Gao omg thank you so much for clearing that up. Because I didn't know that there's only one true reference to a line from the film Seven Samurai. thank you for correcting me.

Totally sang this to myself. X-D

The Gentlemen Network I see you're a man of culture aswell...

In the year -40,000 it was here, and you could walk to it. And some people walked to it.

And then it got warmer an there's a lot of treeeeeeeeees cause it's warmer

You could make a religion out of this

And it was beautifulllll

The DORUK And my friend.

The DORUK and his "quest" was based on vengeance for his father's murder, something that happened all the time. So he ignores a lot of *very* Samurai things Jack did.

It's not easy being the son of the Emperor *SU Doug shades activate*

Jack may be the son of a Emperor but that does not mean he is Samurai. i don't think most Daymio would let their offspring be samurai since that would put them in danger and thats why they would Hire a Samurai

@@DarkAvengerVIM He doesnt have a master. That alone means hes not a samurai.

I don't think he's blaming just the West remember he brought up anime as well being a cause of confusion.

...In a similar manner to how the west mythologized knights. I get the strange feeling that beneath all of the false equivalences and confusion, there is actually a valid comparison to be made between the two. The idea of a warrior caste of "good" and "honorable" fighters is a little self contradictory ans naice from the outset: obviously anyone who makes it high up within a society isn't going to stay there long without conforming to it's system of values. Values that are never going to include "evil" or "dishonorable." Even the worst of the worst are going to try to appear respectable on the surface when it matters.

I laughed too hard at this

It is glorious music to my ears.

I'm pretty sure if someone is a weeb and wants to be japanese (or whatever weebs want). They would do research and found out the facts. Heck even in anime depiction of the samurai is more realistic usually showing them as rich scum who kill people with an occasional honourable one who is probably the main character who's special

Oh wow second rated comment sweet. I just aim this to the people that only read manga such as naruto and got their assumptions from those media, I know I used to be a guy like this more in love which the idea of Japan than the reality of it

Geoffrey Kandolo Good one Lad.

Note: rich, important people hired samurai. Poor people who could not afford samurai, did not hire samurai.

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@@xenothecatboi He's everywhere.

I don't think the naruto run existed as well it feels like my back is about to break and ninjas would do that weeb shit

It did, but it didn’t look much of anything like the Naruto run you’re thinking of. It was more of a leaning forward scuttle, holding the scabbard of your sword, and letting your body weight and gravity move you forward.

the hand signs is a buddhist hand prayer (kuji in)

Before the Meiji Restoration timeframe, most peasants did not have a family name. But once the Meiji Restoration had started and ordinary citizens needed a family name for Western style documentation, many chose names from previously existing samurai/noblemen families. Hence why you can see last names that exist for many Japanese that once belonged to a clan, but it’s not 100% they are actually descended from said clan.

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David Johnston Son of the emperor, actually

And his primal quest is avengig his"master" his father

Daimyo were of the samurai class. Soo

What about the fact that he's trapped in the wrong time, cut off from his resources? That sounds like a fairly decent excuse to me!

@@abdulmasaiev9024 He was trapped in the wrong time after being banished from a battle with his arch enemy. He was dressed wrong when he arrived.

We will never forget you till the day we diiiiieeeee...Samurai....Sa-sa-Samuraaaaaiiii...

*Janissaries Assuming you mean the Elite Ottoman Soldiers. Yeah, it'd be awesome to see a video on them.

Boots Jew why are they race traitors

Cicero Jannisaries?

+golden foxa while I would not use that term to describe them, but the reason was they were children from non Muslim family (primary Jewish and christian one) raised to protect a Muslim ruler. at a time when their family where blocked from holding official position, but other wise allowed to follow their own religons under Muslim rule.

You're correct, a video on the Janasaries ( I can't spell either) would be great!

Katana was not fragile. They could and often did chip, however fragile would basically mean that it would break in two which did not tend to happen at all. And the iron was not of low quality, it was full of impurities, but said impurities would be gone after a lengthy process. After the impurities were gone the Japanese smiths were left with a darn good piece of iron that made a pretty great sword. It is important not to mythologize the Katana but it is equally important not to downplay it.

Not exactly, at least not any more than in the way soldiers are mercenaries. Samurai are a social class, any in the biggest times of war (clans fighting eachother) lots of families were part of that class.

@@Ms10000123 Soldiers can fight for causes, volunteer, etc. Samurai only fought owning to duties to their superior daymios.

​@@davidsenra2495 Reducing either soldiers or samurai to mere mercenaries is dumb. If you are going to say that samurai are just fighters for whoever they are loyal to, you are clearly talking out of your ass.

Yea that whole "mercenaries" thing is pretty misleading. Like quite a bit of this channel honestly. I really hope people arn't seriously using this channel as their only source of historical context.

The way he described all samurai as mercenaries is kinda iffy because the logic can be applied to almost any soldier to call them a mercenary. So unless all soldiers who are payed are considered mercenaries, samurai don’t usually count as them.

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Shad minds dragons tho.

There are many resources on historical european martial arts on RU-vid. In my opinion, none of them, not even Shad, is correct all the time, or at the very least, they aren't able to touch every single point the need to make. That's why I prefer to follow a large variety of channels, _The Sword's Path_, _SnapJelly_, _Metatron_, _Shadiversity_, _Skallagrim_, _Lindybeige_ and of course, the great man from _scholagladiatoria_. There are more, of course, but there is no way I can follow every single one. Anyway, this means I have a lot of educated opinions to look in on when I want to learn something.

and the best part is the moment when they make videos to answer to each others ^^

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Yup, to be honest Samurai Jack is his own thing and is often not a good example

He is mostly a ronin

Samurai is "one who serves", the son of the Emperor serves no one but himself.

@17mohara Hara That's not really serving in a duty sense, so much as being a good son.

Systematically destroying For Honor, one group at a time.

Hunterkiller1440 then why is your profile picture a japanese superhero series i.e super sentai?

Everything is romanticized, like pirates, knights and cowboys Wether its a good thing or a bad thing is up to you

It's not just weeaboos, the japanese romanticize them just as much. What's the last time you saw japanese media treat samurai like bodyguards and tax collectors.

@@shikigranbell7608 Because super sentai have absolutely nothing to do with the glorification of ancient Samurai, maybe?

I don’t see anything wrong with romanticism. Most things that have been fantasised about in the West (pirates, knights, samurai) because they are, frankly, either boring or completely disgusting and selfish people. No one wants to think about a servant with a sword or a bandit who was good with a katana - we like to think of paragons of honour, or defenders of the people. While this may be completely inaccurate, it fuels great creative media and can give people a sort of idol to look up to, even if they weren’t really like that in history.

Knights were a cavalry elite first and foremost though, they were always a warrior class, at least for the duration of the Middle Ages.

Knights being cavalry isn't a hard rule. The English knights liked fighting on foot. Also, the word knight (or at least it's precursor) was used for people who weren't warriors, but over time as the servants fought for lords the word knight became the word for the warrior class serving a lord.

+Jasper van Heycop Samurai mostly fought on horseback as well, and knights didn't necessarily fight but could as well just send whoever they had at their disposal.

+psychotic I don't know the percentages, neither to verify your claim about knight or about samurai, but the samurai class consisted of family lines as well, attaining positions for children through connections made. They weren't just hired workers, but a social class.

Psychotic Muffin, early samurai tended to be the lesser sons of nobles. However, in the sengoku jidia samurai were just guys who could fight well, and then in maji era it became a hereditary class.

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A video just got posted on the Maya, Aztec and Inca. Will be going after this video. ;)

there are many more cultures and civilizations in ancient Mexico then aztecs or mayans

Modern Mexican are about as much Native as they are Spanish ,black and a few other ethnic groups and most of the Native or indigenous peoples aren't even Mayan they make up like only 1/8 of the overall native population there were dozens of other native tribes and groups that lived in the area that is today known as Mexico around the time of the Spanish conquest

"Mayas"? The Maya Were The People, And Multiple Maya Are Still Called Maya, And One Maya Was A Maya.

@@rateeightx "Mayas" is the plural of Maya in spanish

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A type of... halberd? I mean, they're both polearms, but a halberd is closer to an axe on the end of a stick, similar to a poleaxe. A naginata is more like a glaive, or maybe a war scythe sharpened on the other side. I wouldn't normally be a stickler for precise polearm terminology (that way lies the madness of early editions of D&D), but you're claiming a naginata is a halberd rather than a spear. The thing about that is that a naginata is, if anything, closer to a long-bladed spear than to a halberd.

When you look at european examples, there are many with blade shape similar to a naginata, not all halberds would have crescent-like blade shapes. When taking into account the much bigger amount of types of european polearms( glaives, bardiches, guisarmes, partisanes, fauchards etc ) a simpler approach is more adequate, i would presume. Many people had the same problem when trying to use their own ruler for the japanese weapons. The fact that naginatas were often used by guards and are used as ceremonial weapons is an another similarity to halberds. I wouldn't say that Naginata is a spear, types of attacks are different, blade shapes are different, lengths are different, type of use on the battlefield was somewhat different. Of course there are examples of spears that you could slash with (broad, leaf shaped spears), but the thrust is still available in them, not so really in naginatas. The fact that most european halberds could thrust quite nicely might be a point against naginatas being halberds in european sense, true, I would personally go with halberd/glaive.

A glaive, certainly. A glaive is probably the closest European polearm to a naginata, both being essentially a single-edged cutting blade on the end of a stick. But the halberd is kind of a different story. Perfect categorization is impossible with medieval weapons, but in general, a halberd would have an axe-like cutting edge opposite to a back-spike that could be used for attacking or hooking, both mounted below some sort of spear-like tip. While there's a certain amount of variance in the specific designs, I can't really find any versions that are very much like the naginata. After all, the naginata lacks the axe-like cutting blade, the back-spike, and the spear-tip. While they're both fundamentally polearms used for cutting, the traits that define a halberd as different from other polearms are simply absent in the naginata. I mean, feel free to provide sources showing otherwise, but there aren't a lot of similarities that I'm aware of, beyond them both being polearms with strong cutting capabilities. Again, I would argue that the naginata has more in common with long-bladed spears that are capable of effective cutting, and while I think your point about thrusting is a good one, I'm not actually arguing that the naginata is a spear. Simply that it's even less a halberd, which, as you note, is also a much better thrusting weapon than the naginata. The use as ceremonial weapons doesn't strike me as particularly consequential, here. Yes, both of them sometimes were, but then so were spears, and so were swords. I could use the same logic to say that a longsword is basically a katana, and... no.

The halberd went through quite a bit of change before being somewhat codified, even looking very similarly to naginatas, here is an example: myarmoury.com/talk/files/early_halberds_1a_580.jpg especially the middle one on the picture. The separate spearhead was added later to better deal with pikemen and spearmen and the hook mostly for cavalry. Taking into account quite a bit of variety in blade shapes of both naginatas (some could thrust quite well) and halberds, some of which overlap, i wouldn't say its really an error. The fact that these saw similar use on the field and as a guard weapon can be made to draw some conclusions helpful in codifying it as well. The ceremonial aspect was just a loose conclusion that both are used even today during some festivities or even in courts or places of faith. In the end, when looking strictly at the final shapes of these weapons i might be persuaded to call it a glaive rather than a halberd though.

I severely doubt that just because armor exists. Armor to the point a pretty common way for fights to end was one warrior pinning the other down and then using a blade to stab through a gap in the armor.

@@kaijuslayer3334 ​ I'm not the historian here but I will try to explain it. Please do with it as you will and I encourage both you and I to do a more research into it. Here is the explanation as I remember it: For the longest amount of time armour haven't been full-plate, and even after that armour is very expensive. Most soldiers won't wear helmets in large battles and heavy armour slow you down, limiting the army's flexibility. As long at you aren't wearing a top of the line helmet it only takes a simple rock to end a life. Not trying to start an argument, just try and further explain my professor's lesson. have a good day.

he thinks it can compensate for not having the high ground

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What backwater part of youtube are they from?

Nobody From Nowhere the bushido code we know today was written in ww2 era Japan to try to boost morale and such, it was SUPPOSEDLY written based on oral traditions and such since we have no historical writings or anything of bushido(atleast at the time) and what we do know makes it seem there was no one bushido code

Also the guy that wrote the modern bushido code had a hard on for the idea of "chivalrous knights"(another bullshit myth) and the code of chivalry

They are the same position with the same function, with minor cultural differences.

Sonim Hm. Should have called it a glaive, but not everyone knows ancient weaponry well enough. In the end a glaive is a spear that can cut well.

Axel Tenveils i'm always confused with glaives. Aren't they pole arms?

johan Bakker Basically. All big two handed weapons could qualify. Spear length and upwards.

Axel Tenveils i see. thanks for the info

johan Bakker There are more knowledgeable people out there to give better explanations than me. That is my personal rule of thumb.

Julie Pratt who knows maybe his parents were at LEAST the asian part of russia, cause you know, Eurasia, but yeah you the show was not at all historically accurate but it was meant to intertain not educational like OSP

Dwight Gutierrez actually it kinda was educational, he did teach many famous Japanese stories and mythologies through his work as well as stories and mythologies from other nations as well

Alex Mansfield True enough, but I didn't watch it because it was historically accurate. I watched it because it was interesting.

He's Russian

Well, that's because he didn't care and was going by the rule of cool. I mean he said it himslef.