What was a Samurai Battle Like?

[@metatronyt]

I have watched the entire video, fantastic presentation, really detailed! Love the story telling style too! Well done mate

[@metatronyt]

***** It is nice to meet you indeed :) I already knew about Antony but I have still appreciated your advice ;)

[@dutchvanderlinde3256]

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?

[@chaipod]

A great epic story of a samurai battle, thank u Anthony

[@bigmac8168]

Lovely😂😂😂🤩.. your soundeffects👍

[@jamjunky]

This guy doesn't need a paintbrush, the picture he's painting with raw passion and interest has me hooked! Bring on the next battle!

[@AntonyCummins]

thank you!

[@i_love_crpg]

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.

[@Maddie_Madds]

"Tradition! Honour! Courage!" "These are what make us." "We are the warriors of Tsushima!" "We are SAMURAI!!!" "Lord Adachi... Go break their spirits"

[@visionplant]

Well, holy shit. Damn. That sounded more epic than the final battle in The Last Samurai.

[@AntonyCummins]

The Last Samurai was such a wasted opportunity. It could have been awesome.

[@Marukomekun]

I was just reading a chapter on this last night in your book “Samurai and Ninja”. Love the imagery

[@Gool349]

just amazing! Thanks for this atmospheric excursion into history!

[@LuxisAlukard]

Great video! I like it!

[@orionamartalas8363]

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

[@AntonyCummins]

thank you! Keep up with the videos. :)

[@gogglebobb]

Bag of heads is one of the best names for equipment that I've heard lol

[@jenevieverwebkinz]

my amagination was really sparked and it was fn thanks and good vid

[@SatsumaTengu14]

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

[@DonPeyote420]

The enemy taisho may be running from defeat... BUT HIS DISHONOR AND OUR SWORDS WILL CHASE HIM TO HIS GRAVE!!!

[@Snow-ds2ud]

Much appreciated, Anthony. You're brilliant.

[@AntonyCummins]

Thanks snow. That's always nice to hear.

[@KamiSeiTo]

Incredibly interesting (and quite different to what is usually shown in games or films). Fascinating...

[@mikereese529able]

I have heard that the battle scenes from Akira Kurosawa's movie "Ran" are pretty good examples of feudal Japanese warfare.

[@charelsneal4340]

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.

[@Avalenzy]

I've been looking for a book like this for so long! Can't wait to order it!

[@AnthonySforza]

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.

[@nachoolo]

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).

[@AntonyCummins]

I am working n them now. Some are in book two of book of Samurai. So i will get to it but not for a while. but it is on the list!

[@nachoolo]

Antony Cummins Ok, thanks for the reply.

[@nachoolo]

Aldrin Olay Thanks

[@vernalwarrior23]

Aldrin Olay excellent links! very interesting, thank you

[@pirotess2]

You can also read this manga, it is based on Japanese historical books. But it was translated half way. bato.to/comic/_/comics/sengoku-r4622

[@bigmac8168]

Did you play rolegames like Dungeons and dragons as a Child or Young adult?

[@AntonyCummins]

Yes lots

[@FacelessonaThrone]

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.

[@GHOSTofYOSHIMITSU]

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[@milanguzvic8457]

That was fantastic video my brother, great job brother and thank you for all you done all this years

[@AntonyCummins]

No problem and thank you!

[@shootits48]

i thoroughly enjoyed this

[@bundy4prez462]

Oh you mean war.

[@Strategiusz]

OMG those cut off heads looks like a very important aspect.

[@AntonyCummins]

Very much. It was all about the heads

[@kingofladies04]

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.

[@rockfieldlangley1955]

Quite Entertaining! Great delivery!

[@Omegaures]

Loved it!

[@matthewct8167]

Did they ever take prisoners?

[@AntonyCummins]

Good question. People did submit. But good topic to investigate.

[@tarquinogilvie]

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?

[@AntonyCummins]

I will try and do a head video in the future as well.

[@AnthonySforza]

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.

[@jmclean7006]

Are there any good books in English that detail the history of Japan from around 1400 to the fall of Osaka or so?

[@jmclean7006]

Thankyou, any books in particular you would recommend?

[@jmclean7006]

Okay thankyou!

[@trey2099]

Could you talk more about the teeth blackening?

[@AntonyCummins]

I will do in a future video. Good idea.

[@pyrojinn]

I don't know teeth blackening is practiced in Japan. So far I only know of Vietnamese did that( since I'm one myself)

[@tofuproduzent8272]

I have never seen medieval asian forces with shields. Were shield unhonorable?

[@abc4781]

The Chinese, Mongols , and Koreans definitely used shields.

[@2ears1mouth786]

good god, that aspect of bringing back the heads and so on is terrible. huh. well.

[@CosmicDuskWolf]

Why would they want black metal looking teeth over clean white teeth?

[@AnthonySforza]

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.

[@CosmicDuskWolf]

Ah I see.

[@AnthonySforza]

Dark Wolf Jaja, cool. I was wondering, "Man I hope I didn't lose him in all of that."

[@biometrix1000]

"ninja magic" had mainly psycological benifits ,like sending the crusaders in saying that god will protect them..

[@MCShvabo]

That may be but they believed in it so that's something that should be learned if one is practicing Ninjutsu.

[@dapencilshinobi]

First of all Ah no the samurai wouldn't back down my friend when the battle is about to start. They wouldn't do that at all.

[@abc4781]

YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT!

[@hisashijrauman3692]

Ashigarus weren't Samurai though