But Metatron, what was a Samurai war really like, was it all honor and respect, or was it mud wrestling with knives? For that matter, what was an individual dual like, was it a beautiful martial art, or wild flailing of instincts?
you see, this is the kind of european that nobunaga would let into japan. His dedication for historical authenticity, alongside dedication is something that is a gem.
I love this guy you can see his happines when he tells the story ... fantastic.i love japenese history ana i love samurai.. i do iaido and kendo and on 1vs1 you can feel the pressure i can imagine in a real battle
I understood that samurai often lived in their armour for months on end, implying they would not or rarely removed it while on campaign. I must have been mistaken, very interesting Mr Cummins. Thank you
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Could you do a video about formations use in Feudal Japan? The way you put it in this video, it sound waaay more chaotic than in other places with simmilar technology (Like Medieval Europe and China).
the Edo period was more of a Time of refinement to what is now a way from something that was so crazily brutal could be turned into something so beautiful the DO.
this is an incredible video, truly glad you could create such a vivid image of a feudal Japanese battle ground. i have a question though, i believe you said something like ashigaru could become samurai, what would that be like and how would the process work? thanks.
I know, right? For many years, I'd always wondered about something that felt as though it was missing, yet I didn't know how to articulate it. The best way I could describe it was whatever is between the Gorin no Sho and the Hagakure... that there had to be something in between the straight technique and the philosophical pontifications. Admittedly, this book actually filled that void in my studies on the subject, pretty nicely.
Fantastic video. So based on the description, were Medieval Japanese samurai and other warriors not in the habit of taking prisoners alive? I've heard in Medieval European battles, peasants were slaughtered, but high ranking knights and the nobility were preferably captured to be tortured for information and ransomed back to their lords and families. But in this video it appears the higher ranking, the more valuable their decapitated head would be. Thanks.
Brilliant video!! Absolutely loved it, I think in an infiltration mission video would be great. Was wandering about what Daimyo did with heads the received? I know they were tagged and identified but then what? Were they preserved and collected or discarded?
Most of them were actually sent back to the families of those who'd fallen. Although, not to say that samurai were above tossing them into a ditch... however, there'd be caveats, like facing a specific direction on a specific day during a certain month, so on and so forth.
The Imperial family started the trend. So it kind of became one of those silly things that doesn't mean anything but used as a sign of affluence, which is why the higher ranked samurai had them. Kind of like... Kylie Jenner's lips. They're not in any way better than any other lips, but women get theirs done to look like heres, not because they're cute (Despite what they say) but because they want to reflect the affluence that kylie Jenner has and feel just as important. Also, if I recall right, the joke back the was that white teeth people swigged piss... which apparently was a rather effective "mouthwash" back then. In any case, if a lower ranked one would get a hold of the filings to dye their teeth, it's kind of one of those honor things where you'd look like a dumb motherfucker having black teeth and standing around as an ashigaru. I imagine it'd be rather embarassing. For not only you, but everyone around you, in your unit and everything. Like wearing an actual Rolex in the welfare line.
