Woke garbage

I trained bujinkan and other ninjutsu systems over the years. I have been a police officer for many years, have had to affect many arrest of aggressive/violent suspects, and have been in a few deadly force situations including fights for my life. I can tell you from personal experience that things that I have learned from training in the bujinkan IS useful and has saved my life and helped me save the lives of others as well. What experience does this author have to make any claims about what works and what doesn't??? He is full of theory, conjecture and bullsh*t he rides the coattails of these systems masters to make a living.

9:40 Yeah, same with Tenchu. What, we can kill dogs but not cats?

I honestly think if you spent some time watching the older games as far back as 2007-2012, you would get greater context as to why the games are the way they are today. I would love to talk to you about it even further with you if you wanted. The games are meant to be still somewhat grounded in history but with a slight deviation into science fiction being misinterpreted as mysticism and spirituality. By the way, the Assassins in this game are meant to be the good side, fighting against the Templars who are the bad side, but the very first game was having you engage in political and moral conversations and made you question if the Assassins were truly good or bad and if the Templars were in fact the correct ones all along. It's only in today's version of the games that it's lacking nuance and substance that we have this crap before us.

Ashida kim is Worst

Nice fraudulent story, are you the second thomas lockley? Gonna go into hiding?

The Katas are not meant to be understood before after 15 years of practice and the 3rd roll! and 40 years of age

Don’t have any questions just showing my appreciation for your life’s work and your dedication to sharing knowledge, I haven’t read all those books yet. Am sure they will answer all the questions. Almost done reading the first book I’ve thumbed around in each but I am reading them in order to have the best understanding. Congratulations on the child 🎉

Big fan I got 6 of your books, I got samurai and ninja, the secret traditions of the shinobi, true path of the ninja,the book of ninja,Iga and koka skills, and modern ninja warfare. Even recommend you to people when I discuss the topic.

What I asked was "How can YOU stand at the front of a dojo being 'Sensei' when you do not have a black belt in any real martial art?". I can find your video if you like, it shows you in a uniform stood with your back to other people in uniforms and it looks like you're demonstrating a physical martial art move. I've seen a few talks from people and they usually stand facing the crowd who wear what they like. Teaching a martial art requires the instructor to have real-world experience. I know 'Sensei' is an encompassing word.

Nice video. I especially liked the end, where you discussed the difference between Samurai training and martial arts training (being a 20th century factory). 😉

Great video, hope one day i get my question in one, the relationship between sumo and the samurai is something that i really love

Wait, giving a TedTalk in Japan would make you a Sensei?

This was an enjoyable video. Thanks guys!

Many thanks to both of you, very interesting. Thank you.

13:37 Yes! I'd love such a video!

I've made it a personal mini crusade of mine to correct, to the best of my ability, the confusion between the words "samurai" and "warrior/fighter." I don't need to tell you, but I can only think of one story of many that I've translated where they use the term "samurai" to refer to a warrior, and it's fairly clear that they use that term, not because the characters is a warrior, but because he is the servant of a nobleman. In all other cases, they use the term "tsuwamono" when referring to warriors. Lastly, I hope I can contribute in my own little way to our mutual pursuit of the truth of historical Japanese culture. Wonderful video, as always.

I would totally disagree with you Stephen... I would think that a modern ninja would have to be a mercenary practicing Strategic operations like Spec Ops and CIA beyond just regular military operations.

Turns out 99% of this information was utter bs. Based on a 2012 fictional book. Im still annoyed you bent the knee to the woke mob mate but you can fix it. He was never a samurai

Thank you both for your great work, knowing the truth and having a deeper understanding about Samurai and Shinobi makes me appreciate them even more, I wish most of this was more mainstream in Japan and worldwide! Keep it up I’m waiting for the next video

Looks like my question didn't get answered, but that's alright. It was more for you than Steven. I was thinking though, a really good way to get a new generation educated in Japan (and abroad) about what real ninja actually were, would be to write a kids book. You can't often teach people who already think they know something and also don't like learning something they know is wrong. It's much easier to teach people who don't have any expectations right the first time.

It’s not my favourite fight scene but it’s made by my favourite director of all time Gareth Evans who made my favourite film of all time the Raid 2 Berandal in the Kitchen. As much as I love Apostle and this fight scene brings back a lot of those classic elements from the film and is trademark Gareth Evans, the Raid 2 is by far the BEST fight scene I’ve ever seen in my life.

Hi Antony Hope I would get a reponse to my question in the second video My question was about Samurai Team combat. How would a Samurai on horseback and his retainers on foot fight against another Samurai and his retainers?

Very interesting video. Thanks for sharing it

I agree. This hell!

Thank you both for all the great information! All my questions have been answered!

Awesome video Antony. Hope to see a part 2 as I can really feel your passion for these topics. It makes the knowledge stick better and it is more engaging. Enjoyed the guest as well even if he talked a bit too much sometimes :).

I love the answer to my Samurai women question! 🙏🏽 Thank you so much!!! I knew there was so much more information out there.... Maybe a future book idea Antony..... 😉

Thank you both for the good Q&A video 👊🏻

This is great. You guys are very knowledgable

Nice click bait showing a dojo in the pic and then a dirty shack in reality.🤪

A martial art with two, or more than two guys fighting, unarmed, is a modern invention anyway, is it not? Back in the day during feudal Japan, surely it would've been a disarming-jutsu rather than a fisticuffs-jutsu? At the very least, a Tanto would be involved.

Congratulations!

Here's what you need to know if you are a history buff. There are only five records of Yasuke: one each in the "Shincho Kouki" and "Ietada Nikki," and three records by Jesuit missionaries. There are only three records: the record of the first meeting between Nobunaga and Yasuke, the record of Nobunaga's return trip from the conquest of Koshu, and the record of the Honnoji Incident. The rest of the contents are largely fan fiction by later generations. And there is no material in these records that could link Yasuke to the status of a samurai. In fact, another record of the Honnoji Incident in the Shincho Koki clearly distinguishes between those with surnames and those without surnames. Yasuke was not a samurai. This is the reality. 歴史に詳しい人に知っておいていただきたいことです。 弥助に関する記録が残っているのは「信長公記」「家忠日記」それぞれ1か所ずつと、イエズス会宣教師による記録3か所の計5か所のみです。 内容は信長と弥助の初対面の際の記録、信長の甲州征伐からの帰路における記録、本能寺の変の際の記録の3通りのみとなります。 これ以外の内容は大体が後世の人のファンフィクションです。 そして、この中の記録には、弥助と侍の地位を結びつけうる資料は存在しません。どころか信長公記の本能寺の変の別の記録から苗字有りと苗字無しで明確に身分分けされていた部分がみつかっています。 弥助はサムライではなかった。これが現実です。

Short answer No.

Do you ever plan on taking a trip to China to visit museums or historic sites? I am currently reading your translation of the Art of War.

Shugendo, Shaolin monks, Indian mystics... 🤔

Bad ass

How do we (as students of the samurai and ninja arts) go about learning Kuji, Shugendo, Shingon, Tendai, Shinto and Daoism when most of us don’t live in Japan (or China)? The internet is full of frauds with no legit lineages. Many books on these spiritual paths are also written by authors with no credentials. What do you and Steven suggest, besides traveling to China (for Daoism) and Japan for the rest? 🤔

As a Japanese, I must mention that AC Shadows is not a matter of just buying or not buying because this game is so disrespectful to us Japanese. Some of the Ubisoft developers mentioned in the interviews “This game was made based on true Japanese history”, which is wrong. There is so much wrong content. Yasuke was hired as a porter. His job is to carry weapons during war. That it. There is no original Japanese historical document to prove that Yasuke was a worrier or samurai. Thomas Lockley, a guy from British, wrote a book about Yasuke, but he says he wrote it based on Wikipedia and his imagination since there is almost no original Japanese documented information about the black guy. Then the book was published in Japanese and English, but he added false information only to the English version to imply that Yasuke was a samurai. Since then, so many books, articles, etc have been published based on the Lockley’s book. Therefore, most books and articles you see should contain wrong information. The average height of Japanese at that time might have been shorter than that of blacks, but there are many famous tall samurais too. I would say that Yasuke was taller than any Japanese is wrong. Japanese God is not a black color. Some Shinto-related God statues have painted black color, but it doesn’t mean all Japanese Gods have black color. I love the fact that you like Japanese culture, and I didn't want to mention it above, but the recent DEI movement has negatively affected not only Western culture, but also Japanese culture as well. That is why we are so mad against Ubisoft and also Sweet Baby Inc. We don't have any hate feelings for black people. I wish Ubisoft said "The game is fiction", then everybody would not be as angry as this time even though the game still contains many mistakes about Japan. 英語だけで書くと「お前は人種差別主義者の白人」とか「これはフェイクアカウントだ」とか言われるので先に日本語でも書いときます。最後に、日本文化に関心を持ってくれてありがとう。

My response to should ninjutsu be kept secret is . . . No. 😂 The cat has already been let out of the bag! 😸 Keep publishing as much as possible about ninjutsu. The samurai are still still cool and the ninja being black ops samurai spies is just totally awesome. 🥰

You once said that Musashi said that katori shinto ryu were priest back then, do you or Steven know if ordained priest like katori fought on battlefields or not and we're any shinobi?

What is the biggest difference between the modern perception of Sengoku period samurai and the historical reality?

Could you expound on the influence of Chinese spycraft and its relation to ninjutsu? Reading Sawyers Tao of Spycraft reveals many many parallels to the in and yojutsu techniques of the shinobi .

knew this almost a decade ago

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Antony, congrats on the baby. I plan on buying a bunch of your books soon. My question is, as it pertains to a modern shinobi...or someone aspiring to be such...what should be the number one priority or prime directive of such an individual?

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