Japan: The Ancient Nation That Created The Samurai | Lost Treasures of the Ancient World | Odyssey

Having studied martial arts under a descendant of Samurai, and striving to live by Bushido (the mistakenly named “Samurai code” [in my opinion]), I am not surprised by Ronin being a significant part of Samurai history. I say this because of the inevitable clash between Bushido and politics or hierarchy. To wrap Bushido into the choices of power-corrupted men is a misunderstanding, which permeates this documentary.

Why is there no Japanese in this documentary?

why weren't any japonese experts invited to talk about their culture?

Strange that an Erhu is heard playing when it is a Chinese instrument.

I love Japan, and their people.

Music sounds more Chinese than Japanese, but I could be wrong

Looks like a depiction fight between Kujiro and Takizo

Goodness, playing Chinese music at the start.😡

I use to dream about japnese solder with sword goingvafter me. I think I was six years old

Wait a min here, did they just say that Jesuits brought gun powder technologies to Japan. Considering thier neighbors, the Chinese invented gun powder, and earlier it said how Japan admired thier neighbors so much, I'm almost positive that Japan had gun powder technologies well before the arrival of the Jesuits.. they might not have had artillery pieces, like the Cannons on a ship..

another culture with men being Men. ffs.

Quite outdated. The samurai were far from being honorific and loyal and the whole Bushido code was a made-up ideology that emerged much more recently.

Samurai are still fascinating and intriguing.

The ultimate warriors ❤

This documentary is a mess, first the music is chinese, then foot binding never happened in japan, and then no native japanese scholar included here, like come on, you talk about japanese history we need to hear it from the locals 😂

I feel that Japanese society is very much influenced by ancient China and it is reflective of this point such as the practises and courtly structure that was employed.
Ancient China was considered the centre of the universe to Asian cultures, so all Asian nations that were further away from China were seen as less civilised or barbarian.
Japan went through a serious of different periods, where culture and the arts flourished.
But ever present was the fuedal lords and the constant threat of civil wars between the ruling classes of warriors.. and war lords. Again, very similar to Ancient China which had long periods of fueding nations and war lords which sought further power and control over the emperor and the nation.
The only difference with Japan is the geological nature of the country. As an island, there was very limited opportunity for new ideas or war from outside forces such as what China experinced such as the mongol conquests.
The Japanese war lord which ruled over all the other war lords, was able to do so with suspicion and rigid rules to prevent disobedience.
The country was blocked from all outside forces and trade was only done on a select region in the South of Japan..
Modernization of Japan was later done to prevent befalling Japan what had happened to Ming China, with western nations carving up the country.. the Empire of Japan then changed it's attitude to one of outward conquest in the nature of European nations of that time, the only difference between the brutality in which they sought to conquer adversaries.. like in the case of Korea, South East Asia and South Asia. All were under imperial Japanese rule and though the Empire of Japan last only 45 years, it had the world's most populated empire.. during that time period which is truly astounding when you consider it.
Modern Japan is vexed by this history though as they still can't have a military, the countries that surround Japan see it with anger or suspicion at least politically and they have no opportunity to get back territories lost to Russia or China during the end of the second world war.
While, Japan is a country of interest and uniqueness.
Finally, I feel Japanese people are for the most part shy, polite, amicable and well-ordered. There culture and land is one which faced constant threat of civil war and natural distasters and you can see their strength of character is reflective of such a turbulent environment.
Overall, it is a good place to live but modern Japan faces several challenges.. an incredibly low birth rate, aging population, massive state debt, black work culture, weak yen, high taxes, high inflation.

Poor Dan making it up as he goes along. To think he is teaching martial arts and hasn't a clue about Japanese history, Samurai or what Jujutsu is. It was a laugh

If only they'd hired a narrator who could pronounce the word samurai correctly. smh

jiu jitsu means "mother art you du b fuck

Invasion of Korea was prior to Tokugawa's reign

What’s with the Chinese music?

Major error... the part when they mention Nobunaga. He was referring to Hideyoshi Toyotomi, one of Nobugana's generals, who gained the title of Shogun after Nobugana. His son Hideyori confronted Ieyasu's army at the battle of Sekigahara

Always white dudes talking about other ppls culture. I wanna hear Japanese history from Japanese historians and real decendants of the samurai. Not joe blow from England.

Dude narrating this is either high as giraffe ass or just slow period.

Thank you very much for your much Interesting video. I found it fascinating...

BLOOD AND HONOUR

There are too many errors in this video. For example, beg9nning with the so-called creation of Japan, the actual legend according to Kojiki (the chronicle of myths) is that Japan was created when Izanagi and Izanami (two diving beings) dip a spear into the water of the universe, and the drops give rise to the islands of Japan - NOT from the tears of a goddess. Another major error is that the Emperors of Japan were "Shintoists", especially since they were the head of the Shinto religion. And the accompanying musical soundtrack was not Japanese.

Whoever completed the background information for this video was a moron.

Weird how there's not a single japanese historian discussing japanese history. (Just dogface round-eye's)

I'm sorry (not) but if you can't pronounce "halberd" you have no business being in a documentary

Quality documentary

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Why aren't Japanese people telling us about their culture????

This is my native lane lol easy clock hiys

It isn’t called Deshima. It’s Dejima.

Why do we play chinese background music?????????????????
🥲Japan is Japan. China is China!!!!

It is so irritating to hear Chinese music being played for a documentary on Japan. How much do you really know about Japan?

Also the Katana was not tye primary "go to" weapon of the Samurai. Samurai began as horse mounted archers first, when they became foot soldiers they used the Naginata and the Yari first. The Katana was a weapon of last resort.

音楽が中国音楽なのが残念です

This is so comically wrong, from the Chinese music to the location of Dejima (and using Tsushima to talk about it) to the FIRST FUCKING SENTENCE getting the creation myth wrong, the only value this documentary has is as a source of misconception and orientalist views of Japan 😂 I had this playing in the background while studying and the errors are so egregious I completely lost concentration

Japanese are white Americans living on those islands for too long so they became Chinese look-alikes.... seriously!

PS: Yasuke was not a samurai

Wait, foot binding is a Chinese custom. Not Japanese!

I find it insulting you're calling their culture a cult

The music played in the film is not Japanese. They are all Chinese music !

Foot binding for women was only practiced in China during Ching dynasty close to the end of 17th century.

Yea not a fan of calling the samurai a cult.

you need to make sure you actually play traditional Japanese background music instead of Chinese music....really!!

Too much minor errors that I would say that they should remake this video.

This ancient history documentary taught me that ancient empires were just like high school, with way more swords and less algebra.