The Story of Christopher - A Japanese Man Who Traveled to Elizabethan England

Learn about the fascinating untold story of Christopher, a Japanese man who traveled to England in the late 1500s and left a tremendous impact. The events of which are detailed in the new book "A Gentleman from Japan" by Thomas Lockley.
I would like to thank Thomas Lockley for providing me a review copy of "A Gentleman from Japan". Get yourself a copy of the book here: www.amazon.com/Gentleman-Japa...
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[@nont18411]

Queen Elizabeth: “I don’t think it’s his fate to leave England. Remember what Christopher said when I told him that his war was pointless?” William Cecil: “Unless I win.” Queen Elizabeth: “If you win, anything is possible.” William Cecil: “Even the ‘empress’? You are not so different from the rest of us. In your secret heart…please tell me your plan. I will take it to the grave.” Queen Elizabeth: “Why tell a dead man the future?”

[@ericpug9154]

John Manjiro is another amazing story you might look into. A Japanese fisherman who wound up shipwrecked, rescued and who went on to do several amazing things.

[@althesmith]

Even the Samurai in the late 1800's were quite impressed by the swordsmanship of the French officers they got to know. As a rule they were very well trained, especially cavalry officers.

[@Simppu1410]

Been playing lots of Age of Empires 3 lately and immediately recognized the music in the background. Thought I had forgotten to turn the game off for a second there.

[@nont18411]

Meanwhile, my boy Yamada Nagamasa went to Siam and got whacked because he flew too close to the sun. But without him, we wouldn’t have an unhinged dessert called “Khanom Tokyo” that neither came from Tokyo nor even a Japanese dessert.

[@theuniverse5173]

The Shogunates becoming Voices of the past?

[@anon_moose]

I actually thought this WAS a voices of the past video until I saw this comment

[@mumblingmercian3386]

Great video, and as an Englishman I wasn’t aware of Christopher. Stuff like this is fascinating.

[@jimross7648]

I'm looking forward to another true (?) sort of story, about a person we know existed, and was involved in some pretty interesting events. However, as always there will speculation and conjecture to fill in the gaps between historical mentions of Christopher in contemporary historical sources. Even accurate historical documents are products of biased authors, who tell only parts of the story from a point of view that may not be completely factual. Thomas Lockley is a talented writer and am waiting for this book.

[@AzrenKaleBolles-Pohja]

Love your Channel! ❤️ Hearing the Age of Empires 3 soundtrack brings back memories 😌

[@itsObiwankenobi]

This definitely inspired The Great Ace Attorney. Kazuma Asogi a student who was offered to study abroad in London. Nothing particularly interesting happens to him, though 😉

[@atomixfang]

I was wondering when you would upload your next video.

[@Tomoyuki473]

I have British roommate in Tokyo in University days. We played Assassins creed black flag alot. Funny guy, but I dont want to play in real life. I cant imagine how terrible ocean travel is that time. 😂😂

[@-RONNIE]

Thanks for the video it was really good

[@AvengerofWarcraft]

Reminds me of a video about Japanese expeditions to Rome, for some reason.

[@Ren_Brands]

Great Video fascinating Story.

[@scorpzgca]

Great video it's always interesring to learn about Japanese people travelling around the world

[@erinrising2799]

will keep my eye out for the book, I'm just finishing reading Shogun and it would be a good counterpart

[@semp224]

We missed a Yahushige in England opportunity

[@blumiu2426]

Now this is interesting. Never heard of him and will be a good read.

[@hanzohattori5908]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@zalop.]

🔦

[@Boamere]

I'm not too keen on conjecture

[@gagamba9198]

A rare miss, Shogunate. I dislike these conjecture 'histories' that Lockley is known for.

[@beepboop204]

🙂

[@buinghiathuan4595]

It would be great if u can take a look at AC shadow trailer. It have Yashuke and a lot other interesting stuff

[@user-pr8gx3vb9h]

Christopher and kosmus were the first two nihonjin to travel beyond the borders of nihon.

[@jarlnils435]

Eh, no. In the 6th century, the japanese waged war in korea, as they had a personal union with one of the kingdoms there. But they lost.

[@anthonybird546]

Not to mention all the trading merchants and embassies to China, Indochina, pre-conquest Philippines, Siam, the embassy to Rome as mentioned in this video itself, etc etc

[@user-pr8gx3vb9h]

@@anthonybird546 yes

[@salguodrolyat2594]

Reverse weeaboo?😯

[@shinobi9922]

So this new book is 99.9% made up fairytale like the one he wrote about Yasuke. Hard pass.

[@TheShogunate]

He uses real historical documents to fill in the gaps. Saying it is 99% made up is just factually incorrect.

[@shinobi9922]

@TheShogunate lol, do you even understand what you just wrote? If he had historical documents that proved what he says, he wouldn't need to fill in the gaps. 😆 There are less than 10 sentences in all Japanese historical documents that mention Yasuke. I don't think there is even 10 sentences in European historical documents that mention Yasuke. Yet Lockley wrote a 500 page book on him full of fantastic amazing exploits of Yasuke that are not written anywhere in any language in the history of this planet. So explain to me once again how he uses historical documents to "fill in the gaps."

[@shinobi9922]

私は日本で10年を過ごした。 日本人の99.9%はヤスケについて聞いたことがなく、ヤスケが誰なのかも知らない。 しかし、400年後の今、彼はおとぎ話の本のために日本以外のソーシャルメディアで有名です。

[@atomixfang]

@@shinobi9922 That is the most tryhard thing I've read on youtube in quite a while lol. Keep flexing that japanese though Ken sama.