5 Samurai Legends (ft. Linfamy)

Muramasa is also from Kuwana, where I live! In Linfamy's video you covered Honda Tadakatsu, the daimyo of Kuwana. He used a spear made by one of one of Muramasa's students. There was a museum exhibit of Muramasa's blades touring in the area a few years ago, but I missed seeing it, but I guess some blades still exist if there's enough to exhibit.

I read one historian`s take on Yasuke being returned to the missionaries that it was a shrewd/cheap move by Mitsunari to keep on good terms with the Jesuits...Of course in the end it did not do much good

you know the samurai legends that mostly stuck in my head is actually fictional and totally exaggerated stories about honda tadakatsu death

as everyone know honda tadakatsu fought many times in the front lines but never suffered any injuries
the story of his death is when tokugawa has dominated japan and peace settled at this time honda helped farmer ploughing field then he got cut from the hoe he use and shocked by the sight of his own blood for the first time honda tadakatsu is immediately die on the spot

honda tadakatsu is one of my favorite samurai because of this stories and i know him mostly because of this stories
what makes this story is great is the moral value of this stories that really stuck in my head
no matter how perfect you are nobody is immune to a fault
and no matter how small that fault is it can bring you down no matter what

Love these kinds of videos!

I eat apples

I kinda wish you would have gone into Yasuke myth, but it makes sense a slave in Japan would do well. Pretty sure the closest word to slave was samurai and well thats what you wanted to be

What's with dudes throwing their guts at folks from walls? Similar thing allegedly happened during the Maccabee rebellion

Damn, that Murakami Yoshiteru guy sounds hardcore as heck.

Hears an idea get back to your regular videos. Already turned off notifications because you've only been posting extra stuff rather than the timeline for like 3 weeks. Next battle video or I unsubscribe LOL for real though what's the hold up tired of waiting.

I love the legend of Yasuke, I'm surprised it isn't more popular than that, especially these days. Sure, I get starting and ending as a slave isn't exactly the uplifting racial equality and anti-slavery story that some would prefer, yet I feel the story of a man born from nothing, ends up basically as a bodyguard to the first great unifier of the Sengoku Jidai and outlives most of his compatriots to tell the tale? There's still something to do with that!

Why aren't there more movies about him? 🤔

Yasuke!!!

Knew how to hate

congratulations for this crossover.

Awesome video 🔥🔥

You have no idea how much I like both your channels. Finally some good shit to watch.

My favorite is Baba Nobuharu. Takeda Katsuyori's reckless decision to attack at Nagashino cost Nobuharu everything, his friends, his lands and wealth, and destroyed Clan Takeda, which Nobuharu had spent his entire life building up. It would have made sense if Nobuharu decided to abandon Katsuyori at the end of the battle, or even kill the daimyo and offer his head up to Nobunaga in return for lands, position and wealth.

Instead, Nobuharu stopped Katsuyori from performing a suicidal charge, and covered the retreat, riding towards the Oda men and shouting insults and challenges to them to distract them from his fleeing lord, before he was overwhelmed and killed. True loyalty is when you remain true to someone, regardless of whether they deserve it. Really, all of the Takeda generals at Nagashino were beacons of loyalty, for going off to die in a battle they all thought was hopeless.

i know an amine series you migth be intrestged to review sengoku basara

The samurai spirit is quite infectious

Linfamy is not just famous, he is in-famous

There is a legend of a useless samurai. He was a bumbling fool who brought dishonor to his lord on a host of occasions. One day the lords castle caught flame, inside his castle was a scroll of his genealogy, which was his most prized possession. The useless samurai leapt into action, running into the burning castle. When the castle had fell and the ashes scattered, they found the useless samurai, sliced open and inside was his lords scrolls. No longer a useless samurai, the lord honored him. This legend comes from Hagakure where I read it.

Your videos are brilliant, top quality, and i think everyone really enjoys them!
One question though: what up with the voice my man?😅

any answer as to why the Japanese swordplay mentioned in the first video favored slashing rather than thrusting? I would be curious to know.

Yasuke I heard there was a movie coming out for him.

Is Yasuke an inspiration for Afro Samurai?

We need more of this series! 👍

You sure like to talk about swordsmiths even though this is suppossed about samurais

I too am a warrior legend in my homeland.

How about Ishikawa Goemon

Yasuke wasn't a samurai, he was a slave and was paraded around for show.

Don't misconstrue actual history with fantasy.
The genuine information is there if you bothered to read up.

The 47 ronin's uniform served as an inspiration for the Shinsengumi's iconic uniform which is sky blue and it has the same mountain sleeves

Interesting!

You include the Honda Tadakatsu from sengoku jidai but you forgot the legendary one, even called 日本一の兵 number one warrior in Japan, Sanada Yukimura. Symbolism of heroic and loyalty.

I’m guessing Tokugawa did buy into the curse. He owned so many because he wanted fewer Anti-Tokugawa blades floating around out there.

yoooo a homie samurai coool

Kanto region sound familiar yeah it's pokemon

Soooooo... Afro Samurai is a Yasuke's fanfic?!

This made me watch Netflix's Yasuke. Thanks and great content!

With all the beheading, where did they all end up? Is there like a severed head landfill?

I did enjoy it a lot but I find this problem with it: some of the stories are not legends but real, only elements and growths are. In fact, the 47 ronin had no elements of mystical proportions it was just the basic story. The black samurai was a real person and although there are variations of how he died or what happened to him later on it does not change the facts nor make them legends. But if you talk of amazing people then it is sorely lacking. You forgot to mention William Adams the Scottish samurai, and you did not speak of the Frenchman Jules Brunet of the Boshin war, who fought there to the end and wore samurai clothes and was accepted as one.
So, I believe the title is misleading. Because legends are usually fabricated with little or nothing to the truth.

Oh dang. I think I've been pronouncing "samurai" wrong for 37 years

Yasuke is the kami of Weebs

Linfamy sent me!

The Yasuke story is almost 100% nonsense. At most a simple footman. He was not by any means a samurai.

Ah yes, Masakado's flying head. The OG samurai creepypasta.

How a short series to find the anime/pop media that is based on historical/legendary/mythical events with commentary?

Yasuke today is a hot topic. Anyway its great I wasn't wrong all this time for not believing the racists one bit about the discourse. It makes me happy that Japanese scholars believed for years differently as these racist and nationalists.