Japanese History: The Heian Period, Pt. 3 (The Birth of the Samurai)

[@zackakai5173]

I, for one, am excited for when this channel inevitably has a sub count in the five or six digits, and I can be a total hipster about it xD

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

I think I'll have to work on my production output 😅Haha

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[@TomiTapio]

It's like #TimelineOfMankind project but in video format, and Japan only, and way more person and ruler names.

[@STStillwell]

These are incredible. Love the weeb shade and the Total War ref. Processing your overall awareness that this series was still fairly neiche and the fact that you still went along with it. Mad respect man. The intention shows in the presentation and quality. Thank you so much for this community. I'm glad I have stumbled on it.

[@STStillwell]

Am prepping for a fujiwara series as a 32 yo man with no frustration tolerance and no skill at strategy games. Should be fun. :P

[@TexRenner]

My father was an airplane mechanic in the United States Marine Corps during World War Two. I was raised with equal parts fear of, and fascination with Imperial Japan. Thank you for creating these easily digestible snippets of your history to share with interested people around the world.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Three of my four grandparents were in the military during the war as well. I wish I had asked them more about their impressions of Japan while I still had the chance. I was initially only planning to go to the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate with this series, but now I'm thinking I'd like to go up to the modern era... The war will be a difficult subject to cover, but I think exploring Japan's evolution from 1868 to 1930s and 40s will be really interesting and enlightening for a lot of people, myself included. Thank you for watching!

[@TexRenner]

@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory I look forward to more. Thank you.

[@cl.3614]

@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory i look forward to it.

[@tykep1009]

I'm binging your videos now. As a Japanese casual history lover learning English through KZbin, your contents are excellent. The last time I studied Japanese history properly with textbooks was over 20 years ago, so I can learn many new things from you. Not only the info, but your script writing and narrating have superb quality. I hope your channel gets 5 digit subs soon.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

I'm very happy to hear you're enjoying the channel! I will do my best to keep pushing that sub count higher ✊

[@max_8548]

I binge watched all the episodes for the last 2 days, so complete and informative! So interesting to listen to and I could really feel the progression between all the episodes. Thanks a lot for your hard work, looking forward for the Kamakura period ahaha

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thank you! 😁 The Kamakura period should be interesting - lots of lesser known political and legal developments (and of course plenty of battles too haha)

[@Moongob-om9zi]

I really enjoy these long videos. It is currently my favourite type of online entertainment.

[@ShuajoX]

I've been watching through this series over the past few days, and just wanted to leave my first comment here. Given the general obscurity of earlier Japanese history in particular on the English speaking web, I am extremely pleased to fill in the gaps in knowledge! So many things I've heard of from later events have their beginnings popping up left and right here. I am incredibly grateful for your work and astounded by the quality! The fact that such content is just free on KZbin (minus the Internet and electric bills) is mind-boggling to me! What a time we live in, truly. 武運を祈るぞ！

[@JiggaMan1297]

I would love to see a full video on the 9 and 3 years war, nobody has done this before and you go into great depth.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

This one is definitely happening this year! (This summer, if everything goes according to plan)

[@strawberrycheesecake5502]

Yaaay, New episode! Thank you, just what I needed on this dreary Sunday. Each time I'm impressed by how "early" all of these things happened, yet how well they've been documented and passed down since then. As for your question at the end, I'm fine with textbook first deep dive later, but it's your channel I won't complain if you do it another way.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Yeah, a lot of these events definitely made a big enough impact in one way or another that the generations that followed found a reason to preserve them for posterity. There are definitely a lot of politics and ulterior motives there as well... But that's interesting too in its own right. Thank you for the feedback regarding the deep dive! I will chalk that up as the first vote for "later."

[@BenTrem42]

After so very many episodes _(I'm luvin' it all!)_ i have finally come to enjoy the quirky tune you include at the beginning. 0:54 --Karma Chöpal (just ben, thanks)

[@nickcaretto]

"rabid foreign fans of shogun total war" i feel personally attacked, but love that you described me perfectly, this is one of the best series of videos ive watched on KZbin in a while. I love that you didn't gloss over the earlier periods of Japanese history.

[@Kyo90640]

Thank you for this. I am a descendant of the Kiyohara clan. I've always wanted to know more about my family history. Thank you for covering my clan.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

I hope I can cover them even more in the future! The story of the Former Nine/Later Three Years wars is a truly fascinating one.

[@bioniclegs3025]

Seeing this made my night, and I am left already wanting more. Very well done.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Well, this comment made my day! Thanks for watching!

[@williamorpheus2635]

Thanks for your videos about the heian period. Currently I'm really into the heian history

[@DaveLopez575]

Top notch history channel along with The Shogunate.

[@pharmd98]

Please upload more videos. You are awesome 👏

[@begusmegus6628]

I really enjoyed the in-depth analysis of the The Former Nine and Later Three Years Wars, i would love more deep dives like that, it made it a lot more engaging to watch this Heian Period video than the other three, i hope you make more of those :)

[@kenchesnut4425]

Just found your channel...the amount of information...the content and context are top notch...excellent writing and narration...keep it up

[@anasevi9456]

Amazing work mate, thank you for sticking through. This series was incredible.

[@SavagesInMyTown]

i love that the one thing every single culture to ever exist has in common is an extreme aversion to paying taxes lol

[@TrainerWhitePokemon]

Thank you for these informative videos! I enjoy listening to them and learning everyday

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thanks for watching! I’m glad you’re enjoying them!

[@crabcrab2024]

Very interesting. Thank you for your effort!

[@thommyavv8905]

These videos are so well produced, and has most of the things I like to see in history videoes

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thank you! I really appreciate that 🙏

[@AtamiskxIx]

Hello! I'm new to the channel, joined yesterday and I am a huge fan of your videos and the format you do them in. Very fascinating and not dry at all, plus the images and music give them the perfect flavoring to keep things interesting. I would absolutely love a video on the Bushi wars, or any other topic you choose to dive deeper into! Looking forward to all future videos! Thank you so much!

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thanks for watching and subscribing! Comments like yours are what keep me motivated! And thank you for the input re: the deep dive video. I will definitely be making it eventually… Probably once I psychologically recover from making the recent Genpei War video (haha).

[@jpossollo]

Really brilliant and fascinating series of historical documentaries. These are the best documentaries to understand in some detail the early history of Japan. I would be very interested to learn more about the two wars of the Heian period. On the whole, being portuguese myself, the first western europeans to visit Japan, I am of course very interested to learn more on the subject of Japanese history. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Congrats and thank you so much for these videos. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@allittlewood8402]

This video was really cool!! I actually came here due to a loose string of related topics while trying to research some things about the Kamakura period and honestly wasn't sure whether I was going to watch more than a few minutes of the video. I found it incredibly engaging to watch and can't wait until I have the time to go back and watch through the rest of this series! Absolutely riveting; both the topic and the pleasing way which you deliver it. The deep dives on the former nine yrs war and the later three yrs war sound like they would be incredibly interesting. Thank you very much for creating and sharing this video!

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thanks so much for watching! Comments like this are what keep me going! Also, thanks for the feedback re: the potential deep dive video. I will tally up a vote for making them sooner rather than later 👍

[@shaynedavidson7087]

Fascinating history, very compellingly told!

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thank you for watching!

[@shaynedavidson7087]

@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory always!

[@tmate88-j8y]

I love this series so far! Thanks for such a great project!

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thanks for watching! There will be more to come!

[@tmate88-j8y]

@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory I can't wait! I love longer videos and the breath and depth you bring to the topics is so nice! I've learned so much already and it's funny; I keep drawing parallels between these different eras of Japan and the current collapse of Western Civilization for similar reasons. Capitalism truly is just rebranded Feudalism and I'm seeing more and more similarities between the Fujiwara clan's infiltration of government through ideological inception and strategic nepotism 😂 History repeating itself. Looking forward to the rest of the series! It makes me want to go into ancient Chinese history and even the history of Buddhism and Hinduism! Thanks again for all this great content!

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

@@tmate88-j8y Gaining newfound perspectives through which to view our modern world is definitely one of the joys of studying history. I personally spend a bit *too* much time in the past to feel qualified to comment on your hypothesis there, but I am certainly in agreement that history repeats to an uncanny degree, and human nature seems to generally remain the same!

[@UntiltedName]

"fans of shogun: total war" yup you got me

[@edgardoumanzorr.6188]

I've learned a lot thanks to you. I hope you keep making this videos. Thanks for your work!

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

That makes me very happy to hear! I will keep doing my best. Thanks for watching!

[@ImperialGit]

I for one would absolutely love a deep dive on the two conflicts; never heard of them before I discovered your Genpei War video :)

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

It is a story I can't wait to introduce to a wider audience, and it is definitely on this year's to-do list!

[@Hilversumborn]

Taira no Masakado is often called the first samurai but IMO I feel that Sadamori and Fujiwara no Hidesato deserve that title more.

[@86thrasher]

Yeah he wasn’t necessarily the “first samurai” he was rather the first samurai to establish a rival government that was viewed as a threat by the imperial court seeing as Taira Masakado managed to take control around 13 provinces throughout the Kanto region.

[@elizabethmender]

Would definitely Love to see a deep dive video about the wars! ❤

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Working on it as we speak!

[@mksenglish]

Love your videos!

[@AngryHistorian87]

I was curious as to what happened to the Kiyohara clan. Thanks for talking about their fate in this video.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Glad to be of service! I hope to talk about them even more in the future.

[@AngryHistorian87]

@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory awesome 👍

[@insansiregar6158]

1:56 What about Meiji Period? Will you make an episode about it as well?

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

I’m still on the fence! That is a period I find very interesting though, so there’s a decent chance. Either way, I won’t get there for quite a while yet!

[@jaquaviuspeterson8785]

I’m so happy you made a new video i started watching a few months ago and I know your videos must take a lot of effort and I wasn’t sure when your next one would be up but I’m so happy I can finally watch it I also love how much time you spend talking about things and that you explain the details and have a lot of pictures and visuals. I hope this am okay question but is next video going to be up next month or will it take longer your videos are really amazing and this i hope this is an okay question but will ever talk about 沖縄 and the 琉球王国 I love to know more about that I know in this series it will be about the main islands but I hope after you talk about the other parts or Japan and mythology and other things I would also like to see the more in depth video about the nine year and three year wars you talked about at the end.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thank you for watching! I'm not sure when the next one will be up, but I'll do my best to get to work on it quickly. I'm definitely not satisfied either about how long the videos have been taking me lately 😅I would love to talk about the 琉球王国 at some point! I'll keep my eye out for interesting-looking books on the subject, as I don't believe I have much in my "library" right now on the subject. Also thank you for the feedback re: the deep dive video!

[@BANKAI-L]

Thank you very much for your work !!!!!!!!

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thanks for watching!

[@jervilan]

Yaay! New episode!😁

[@MatZee27]

Finally! Moar knowledge!

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Sorry for the wait! 😅

[@MatZee27]

@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory worth the wait

[@tgfabthunderbird1]

What is this intro music? I want to find it. These are wonderful lessons, thank you!

[@raynnaf7272]

Nice

[@rayhansaputra__]

Good video👍

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thank you!

[@harushinonomiya]

Minamoto-no-Yoshiie was such a remarkable warrior that all the shoguns in Japanese history tried to trace a lineage that linked them to him. The nickname Hachimantarō must not have been for nothing.

[@harushinonomiya]

It's a shame that your son, Minamoto-no-Yoshichika, has soiled the Kawachi Genji lineage a bit.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Interestingly, the real origin of the Hachimantarō nickname seems to have been from the fact that he had his genpuku coming-of-age ceremony at Kyōto’s Iwashimizu Hachimangū shrine (and he was Yoriyoshi’s firstborn son, hence the “tarō”). Him becoming a renowned general then just kind of conveniently worked out with the nickname (haha). It’s definitely hard to overstate the impact that he had on later generations though. I personally find him to be a bit of a sketchy dude, but, then again, you could probably say that about a lot of the people in his family line. The Yoshichika story is very interesting and I’m looking forward to touching on it in the next episode! Majorly struggling to find an illustration of the guy though 😅 I guess small-scale traitors weren’t popular subjects for portraits…

[@harushinonomiya]

I get the impression that the cloistered Emperor Shirakawa was trying to boycott Minamoto-no-Yoshiie as much as possible. He even fuels a rivalry between Yoshiie and his brother Yoshitsuna. Perhaps it was a strategy of the retired emperor to stop the rise of the samurai, which he ironically depended on to defend himself against the sōhei/akusō. About a representation of Yoshichika, I never really found an image of him. And what you said about "traitors not being portrayed" is very true. In fact, even villains. For example, Kikuchi Yōsai, who portrayed so many important historical figures, did not even draw a patriarch of the Soga clan. And I warn you that it will be difficult to find an image of Taira-no-Masamori as well.

[@harushinonomiya]

Finally, forgive me for my English, it's not my native language 😓.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

@@harushinonomiya Yeah, Shirakawa seems to have had very mixed feelings toward Yoshiie. At times he seemed supportive of him, such as when he made him an 'In no Denjōbito', but at other times he was quite antagonistic, such as shutting down his shōen or fueling that rivalry, as you mentioned. According to one book I have, Shirakawa’s antagonism toward Yoshiie was driven largely by Yoshiie’s poor performance as governor of Mutsu (encouraging the 3 Years War and not properly collecting and sending the province’s taxes). It’s interesting to see which images are common and which aren’t. Like you said, the Soga clan are rarely portrayed (although thankfully there are a few old paintings), and many of the “villains” of this episode were also quite hard to find. Abe no Yoritoki is basically not portrayed anywhere outside of the Zenkunen Kassen Emaki, and Taira no Tadatsune is not really portrayed anywhere (the image I used was an educated guess - a lot of clues point to it being him but I’m not 100% certain). Thankfully, I managed to find one illustration of Taira no Masamori from an Edo Period book called the 本朝百将伝, but as you said he seems to be very rare. I’m not sure why, considering that he was a “good guy.” Then, on the other hand, you have guys like Taira no Masakado who are VERY widely portrayed. Your English is excellent! I wouldn’t have guessed it wasn’t your native language 😊

[@yakumoyukari4405]

Amazing videos! Would love indeapth look to Eleven and Three year Wars since early Samurai politics and war is quite a fascinating stuff indeed P.S can't see you having collab with Nick from The Shogunate and perhaps later Shogo

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thank you! And I will make a note of your interest in seeing the deep dive video. It will definitely be one of, if not THE, next topic I hit in a deep dive. Both those guys are great, and I would be honored to collab with either!

[@atsukorichards1675]

懐かしい教室風景。特にストーブ。週に一度、掃除の時間に給油当番が調達に行っていましたね。隣の席はランドセルが熱くなったものでした。内容に関係のないコメントでごめんなさい。

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

いえいえ、そこまで懐かしんでいただけてよかったです。冒頭で使う教室の写真はいつも余計に時間をかけて選んでいるので気付いていただいて嬉しいです（笑）

[@yztiffitzy6132]

Your starting music on each clip caught my attention(child singing). I'm so sure that I hear this song somewhere before(over 25 years ago perhaps). Just can't recall where did I hear this song. I just know that I hear this song all the time, it is like a theme song of some movie or anime in the past. It was so long ago, that I really can't remember(just feel very familiar with this song). Theme song of Ikkyū Sōjun anime perhaps? I can't be sure of this. This song distract me, I focus more about this song, where have I heard it rather than focus on knowledge you provided. I like to learn about history, but this time, this song really make me want to recal where did it came from, why I feel so familiar with it. I normally don't listen to Japanese music, thus, the only way I hear this song would come from movie or anime theme song. And I must hear this song repeatedly to feel so familiar with it. Perhaps from samurai drama "Lone Wolf" with a child? Just can't remember. Could you please enlighten me on this? So I fulfill my curiousity and then focus more on the knowledge you provided.

[@rangamanthina3961]

Can you make a video about Minamoto no yorimitsu?

[@kunohetou-team]

Congrats your new video! I think you shouldn't hide your face at OSIRO EXPO's photo😁 Finally it has began the SAMURAI era. I love it!

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Haha I can’t reveal my identity just yet! For now, I want to be a faceless narrator 😁

[@eurtunwagens2359]

I know, it is selfish, coming from me. I’ve watched 15 episodes of great quality, for the second time, just paying 11€ per month to KZbin. And, I understand that you make a great effort to produce all this. But, please, continue with the 16th part. There is so much Japanese history left out.

[@seanwelch71]

This primer is fascinating. The reliance on gov. titles and complex documents at every level of society, mirrors our own agri-billionaires.

[@y11971alex]

I’ve always wondered if there’s any good information about the Abe of Michi-oku and their relation to the Abe of Asuka whence we have people like Abe no Me who met through Chinese ambassador in 608 and his son Abe no Uchimaro who was Sadaijin 😅

[@matsudakedo]

PLEASE. Tell me the name of/about the song in your intro, it sounds amazing. Truly.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Thank you! It's a beat I made specifically for this series. Beatmaking used to be my big hobby before I decided to go the history route. I've got it uploaded to this half-assed soundcloud profile over here: soundcloud.com/buyuudenbeats/lonewolf I sampled this Lone Wolf and Cub track for it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5KuqnSgrtBrh7M

[@matsudakedo]

@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Good lord, you know how to make a catchy beat. Japanese cultural songs and your beats are a match made in heaven, a truly fine remix my friend. Keep the Japanese history videos up as well, they go into the right amount of detail and make perfect sense :)

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

@@matsudakedo I appreciate the kind words! I will definitely keep at it 😁

[@doriginalkillua99]

I'll be honest, I'm just waiting for you to discuss about the Genpei war. Anyways, thank you for this wonderful video.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

I think Genpei will probably come in the episode after the next one! I want to give it the attention it deserves.

[@DionysianLovecraftian]

The most interesting periods featuring samurai/bushi are their very early days because it's different from what they would become later.

[@yztiffitzy6132]

Just checked, sure enough it was a famous some from samurai drama "Lone Wolf and Cub". I hear this song when my father worked overseas and bring whole family with him. I end up study abroad back then, and this drama was very popular back then. Even I don't watch it that much, but I hear this song all the time. Back then, Hong Kong kang fu movie still not invade that part of the world yet, this Japanese drama was very popular. About 5 to 7 years later, a lot of Hong Kong kang fu movie and drama flooded that part of the world, only Japanese anime still popular, as for Japanese drama, it was overtaken by the Chinese kang fu drama and Japanese drama faded away. Recently I heard, the Korean drama overtake Chinese kang fu in that part of the world. No wonder I feel so familiar with this song, very familiar.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Yes, it’s a sample from Lone Wolf and Cub! I’m amazed you recognized it. I assume you were living abroad in Japan at that time? I’m sorry it ended up distracting you from the video 😂

[@yztiffitzy6132]

@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory I was in Asia at that time, Thailand to be exact. During my stay there, I saw many Japanese drama come to Thai TV, but later on Hong Kong drama took over, and Japanese drama faded away. Anime still remain strong at that time. Until recently I heard that Korean drama took over, then I hear less about Japanese Anime. I do read Japanese History from time to time, but mainly about the 1500+ period. Materials about earlier period a little hard to find. Last time about 10 years ago or so, I visit Thailand for business trip and happened to meet a Japanese person who carry Oda name. I was amaze, but dare not ask his ancestral line(that would be rude, just met the guy and then ask who is his great great great grandfather was or something). At that time, I only remember one Oda anyway, the lord, other I can't remember name(hard to remember name when you don't speak Japanese). So even if I ask and he told me, I would not be able to tell which ancestry he came from anyway. My dad was in oil business at that time, so he mainly travel around South East Asia and took his family with him where ever he went. I remember Thailand because I stay there longest, my dad later bought a house and settle there, he still travel around and get me to visit him from time to time, but not move the whole family around after settle down in Thailand.

[@yztiffitzy6132]

@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Oh, there is one more experience I like to share with you. Do you know why I develop interest in Japanese History? It was because by chance I got to read a Japanese ghost story. I think you might familiar with this story. Its about a blind poem singer who happen to visit a temple. Because he could not see, he feel there are people around so he sing the poem or story about the demise of Taira clan. When he sang to the point of how the young lord and lady tragic death, he received large sums of reward(he don't know at that time that he was singing for all those Taira clan people who died). The story goes on and on. But this ghost story got me feel a little tragic, feeling that I want to know more. But at that time(the internet not develop yet), if you not live in Japan, it is very hard to find any Japanese History materials. Until the internet develop later on, I have a chance to read more about Japanese history, but hardly come across any materials regarding the demise of Taira clan. Later, I find a few and here and there, started to piece it together, but still did not know the whold story of that incident. When reading about this history, KZbin just getting started and not own by Google yet. So, until recently I came across one of your video about the end of Taira clan. This video fulfilled my childhood desire to know about this incident, thanks for that. To me, the concept of the whole surviving army choosing to drown themselves along with their young lord still intrigues me. I still keep wondering what kind of mindset require for all those people to do what they did, choosing their own end instead of fighting to the last man and inflict as much destruction to their enemy as possible before their death(that is how I perceive how samurai would fight and die). The demise of the Taira still intrigues me till this day.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Ah, so you were in Thailand! I see. I’ve only visited Thailand once, but I had a fantastic time there. I have no idea what kind of TV is popular there now, but Korean dramas are certainly becoming very popular in Japan at the moment. I actually don’t think I know that ghost story, so thanks for the knowledge. There are definitely a lot of legends regarding them even to this day though. Many rural parts of Japan claim to have been sanctuary to fleeing members of the clan who survived the Battle of Dan no Ura, and I’ve even heard the phrase heike-gao (“Taira face”) used to refer to an inbred-looking face, based on the fact that the alleged Taira clan survivors all hid in little mountain enclaves and only reproduced within their own small family groups. It’s a dubious legend, but interesting nonetheless. I don’t think it was me who made the video that you watched about the demise of the Taira, but I’ll be getting there pretty soon! Please check back in a couple months!

[@yztiffitzy6132]

@@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Then I will be looking forward to it. Can't have enough of this Taira history. Oh that ghost story was part of the book called Samurai Ghost Story(I translated the Thai title to English). This book consists of many ghost story related to samurai, some about lone samurai encounter flying ghost head, some even about the famous female ghost in a well at Himeji castle, some about samurai and the commoners, and one about the ghost of Taira clan. Very interesting book, I think it was translated from Japanese book. If this book still available, it is an old book over 25-30 years ago.

[@wolfbane7497]

People listening to your history on the heian era. And still waiting on you to talk about Sukuna.

[@toeimoviefan2978]

18:45 Tawara Touta aka Fujiwara no Hidesato, the one has three split personalities and uses three spinning faces: Tawara Touta aka Fujiwara no Hidesato is a three faced descendant of Blitzwing

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

I'm confused

[@dyak0]

No way! They did the same in Western Europe about the same time. Donating land to some influential people or monasteries becoming their vassals, but receiving their protection. Also in Europe they could donate all of their land to new lords but receive it back on new terms. In similar situations we have similar processes.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Interesting! It's been ages since I properly read a European history book, so it's cool to know that there are parallels there.

[@OneOkRockSamurai]

So is Heike a mistranslation of Heishi? Or is it just an evolutionary word?

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

The broad answer is that they are basically synonyms. The detailed answer is that Heishi technically refers to the entire greater group of people with the Taira name (the “Shi” being 氏, which we often translate into English as “clan”) while Heike specifically refers to Taira no Kiyomori’s branch of the family (“Ke” being 家, literally “house” or “family”). People often use them interchangeably though without really worrying about the finer points.

[@johnschlong5826]

I’m back again

[@y11971alex]

So nobody at the Fujiwara family wanted to find out if Hidesato was actually one of them? 😅

[@stevenedmund5680]

You forgot to tell the story about his cousin playing him to turn on him luring him to his death. You should have also added all the mystery and supernatural events after Masakados death. Or even the fact that people still pay him tribute in a bank account in his name to this day.

[@0MVR_0]

大名 means 'the great named'

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

As you could hopefully see from the video, this is actually kind of a misconception. The 名 part refers to a piece of land (a "named" piece of land), and 大名 thus means something more along the lines of "someone with a lot of land."

[@0MVR_0]

@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory yeah, because only the landed were permitted a last name in history, in many places throughout the world. The literal character translation is still applicable.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

@@0MVR_0 It has nothing to do with the actual person's family name, though. The literal character translation makes it sound as though it does.

[@0MVR_0]

@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory 名 is also a word generally used for objects and nouns. The closest single English word would be 'the entitled', where everything located on the holder's property was his possession, thus he is 大名

[@rjs4780]

Hoping that my comment helps support the channel! Great video!

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

🥹 I truly appreciate that! Thank you!

[@colemanrobbins6788]

If your going to go deep into war history then please do so. The aristocracy shit kinda is just some soap opera type shit and it is ok but war and strategic stuff to war is great. Showcasing the education of the samurai by going into some of their strategies would kick ass

[@alexsala1416]

Setting standards for YT history.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

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[@realrhetoric]

This puts to rest once and for all that pernicious canard about the term "samurai" being another example of Japanese culture's propensity for copycatism. It was _not_ a term coined to counter America's Uncle Sam martial ethos.

[@BuyuudenJapaneseHistory]

Interesting, I hadn't heard that one before. "Bushido" was definitely a newer term abused to incite militarism during and leading up to the war, but "samurai" is absolutely a very old word dating back at least to the Nara Period.

[@y11971alex]

So nobody at the Fujiwara family wanted to find out if Hidesato was actually one of them? 😅