🏯Samurai Castle Siege : The End of the Japanese Shogun--Aizu, Japan

I visited Aizu-wakamatsu, Fukushima, one of the last strongholds of Japan’ s Shogun government. If you liked Tom Cruise and Last Samurai, you should check it out. You’ll learn how the Aizu War and the castle seize symbolize the closing moment of samurai culture -- warriors who fought and died with honor for their lord! If you like green tea, this video is for you, too! Watch until the end -- I’ll introduce the next episode on sake!
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Useful information
◉ Aizu-wakamatsu (Tsuruga) Castle & Museum 若松城（鶴ヶ城）& 天守閣博物館: www.tsurugajo....
◉ Aizu Women’s Texts (Translated into English): Walthall, Anne, and M. William Steele, eds. Politics and Society in Japan’s Meiji Restoration: A Brief History with Documents, Bedford/St. Martin’s. Boston, New York, 2017, 137-141.
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◉ Taiseihōkan 大政奉還: 邨田丹陵, Tanryō Murata - 明治神宮聖徳記念絵画館, パブリック・ドメイン, commons.wikime...
◉ Aizu-wakamatsu (Tsuruga) Castle site: Copyright © 地図・空中写真閲覧サービス 国土地理院, Attribution, commons.wikime...
◉ Aizu War: 月岡芳年 - Touken World - www.touken-wor..., パブリック・ドメイン, commons.wikime...
◉ Boshin War-1: Utagawa Yoshimori, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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◉ Damaged Tsuruga Castle: unknown?, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, commons.wikime...
◉ Writing with brush: 国民礼法研究会 - 昭和の国民礼法 文部省制定　国民礼法研究会 編著 (帝国書籍協会, 1941), パブリック・ドメイン, commons.wikime...
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◉ Tsuruga Castle: www.pakutaso.c...
◉ Edo toilet: DryPot - 投稿者自身による著作物, CC 表示 2.5, commons.wikime...
◉ Niijima Yae photo: By Unknown author - Doshisha University (同志社大学) - Doshisha Archives Center. www.japantimes..., Public Domain, commons.wikime...
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◉ 侍シルエット: by tameX, IllustAC
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◉ Wakamatsu Castle (廊下橋): WatFumihiko Ueno, CC 表示 3.0, commons.wikime...
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◉ Castle, grass, crane: いらすとや, www.irasutoya....
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◉ Sen no Rikyū: painted by 長谷川等伯, calligraphy by 春屋宗園 - 1. Brill.com [1], 2. Omotesenke.com [2] , Omotesenke Fushin'an Foundation, パブリック・ドメイン, commons.wikime...
◉ Toyotomi Hideyosi: Kanō Mitsunobu (狩野 光信, 1565-1608) - Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts (大阪市立美術館) - ocmfa.official..., パブリック・ドメイン, commons.wikime...
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[@alexandersumarokov5901]

cool

[@sachikoexploringhistory]

You are the first person who commented the episode. Thank you very much for the encouraging remark!

[@markbritten6661]

Always amazes me how all those stone walls fit together - wonder how long it used to take and how well paid those specialists were.

[@sachikoexploringhistory]

That's a great question! Thank you for asking it. It's said that building a castle took about three years, even for a domain lord who could hire or mobilize many people. In the medieval times, stones were often procured from the region, but in the Edo period, they were also transported from far away (perhaps to keep a certain quality and uniformity of the stones). There was a group of masonry experts called "Anōshu" who worked on stone wall making.

[@sachikoexploringhistory]

Among the different construction processes, I heard that stonewalling was a big and serious event, and it's said that some lords themselves were there to initiate and encourage people who were transporting huge stones. That helped to enliven the site. We tend to think "You know, maybe, people were conscripted and forced to work without pay?" but I heard that laborers were usually paid in rice or other kind of "money."

[@Columbia-b1i]

Nice video, interesting history. Deserves more views.