End of the Samurai - The Imperial Army - Japanese History - Extra History - Part 4
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- đ History of the End of the Samurai: The Imperial Army - Now that the Boshin War was over, the Meji Emperor could finally settle into the bloodless revolution and start modernizing Japan. Well... Maybe not so bloodless. It turns out that once in charge, the Emperor believed that the best way forward for the country was to embrace Western ideas and begin growing in that direction: the exact opposite position of the factions who fought on his behalf during the Boshin War. And one of those factions was the samurai warrior class which had no place in the society Japan was forming.
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Saigo Takamori offering to be murdered is an absolute madlad move.
"It's all coming together".
He's a samurai. Honor above life. And if he was to die for the honor of his country, what greater glory is there?
Yeah, he's an absolute madlad.
All according to keikaku
Bismarck would be proud.
*Bushido Dignified!*
,,persuited by guards....hides in bathtub....gets away" thats the most assassin's creed thing i've ever heard
"dies of infection caused by the dirty water" maybe not so much after all? xD
You're not wrong đ€Łđ€Ł
I was literally just playing assassins creed
@@HDreamer Game of Thrones twist!
*Eagle screech in the background*
SaigĆ Takamoriâs Plan:
âI go to Korea as an ambassador.â
âI act really stupidly.â
âI get assassinated.â
âWe go to war with Korea.â
Everyone wins. Right?
Ah yeah, it's all coming together.
Donât give Oversimplified any ideas
@BT - 09RV 933303 John Fraser SS But why let international law get in the way of a good crusade?
Nope. War is never a good thing.
@@christophersudbrink4946 is if you sell weapons
"A Napoleonic uniform with a katana and a revolver"
I don't think i've heard a more badass collision of cultures before.
If anyone is interested in the personal stories/diaries of the samurai diplomats that were sent to other nations:
Check out the âvoices of the pastâ channel :)
Those two brothers dug out some really interesting & funny stuff, itâs absolutely WORTH to listen! :D
(The story about france is the funniest - THATâs some serious cultural clash!^^)
Steampunk samurai.
Cultural fusion is always great, never fall for cultural appropriation as a bad thing
@@Paper_titan Exactly. So many people get anal about cultural appropriation but forget our modern world is largely based on cultural exchange. And through that cultural exchange we tend to know better about other cultures and become more tolerant.
I mean, corned beef wontons are a pretty awesome intersection of cultures.
Japanese history is like every DND game: starts at an inn, argues about what class the party needs.
So true
Also US Marines, the formation of Hungarian Imperial Court (Austro-Hungary structure), and maybe US Revolution as well.
Then the party ends up looking like the thumbnail
You made me laugh in my empty kitchen at 11 at night, thank you good sir
If anyone is interested in the personal stories/diaries of the samurai diplomats that were sent to other nations:
Check out the âvoices of the pastâ channel :)
Those two brothers dug out some really interesting & funny stuff, itâs absolutely WORTH to listen! :D
(The story about france is the funniest^^)
He offered himself to be assassinated to justify his country to invade his killers.
Damn that's hardcore
Oh yeah. That is totally a 10,000 IQ power play here
Get Kamikaze'd
One of the original chad moves
Satsuma represented japanese spirit incarnate.
More than willing to give his life for the mission at hand. He is a warrior through and through.
Sonno Joi: "Revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians!"
Emperor Meiji: "Yes to one of those."
But i do like them westerners sooooooooooooo umm yea
@@Lorenzo12799 i like the shinies that kill people really good, and the huge ships, and the...
Yeah
Actual lol
"ehy... I like the "revere me" things... But I also like the "pew pew" things... And the "Choo Choo" things... And also the "dingly dong" things... And can you also wear tuxedos?" - emperor Meiji
Japan: *trying to find a way to get japan to fight Korea*
Takamori: âGuess Iâll die!â
Japan: "We got problems with our samurai and their domains".
Korea: "That's rough, buddy..."
Japan: "So we will invade you".
Korea: "Wait, what?!"
When I played early versions of Civilization (before you could upgrade units) I would send obsolete units on suicide missions just to weaken enemies enough to protect my modern units. It feels like Japan was going to do this to Korea.
It's crazy that he straight up offered to let himself be assasinated to give japan pretext
@@Alverant That's what now happens in Age of Empires 2. Don't need that unit anymore, just semd him over to the enemy tp scout a little.
Samurai: Let's repeat what we did in Japan in Korea, okay?
Japan: ...
*Another Inn, Tokyo*
I bet thatâs a tourist attraction for fans of the anime
It was not Tokyo it was Kyoto
You're a few hundred miles east lol.
To be fair, your other inn is likely much safer.
Kyoto
There is an actual term for that.
How does planets taste like?
That dude hiding went on to write this : "That "Another Inn" in Kyoto wasn't that great, the food was ordinary, the baths are on the street, no service from staff, people coming to assassinate you that ruins the experience, 2.5 stars"
@BT - 09RV 933303 John Fraser SS "and I'm dead"
What justifies the 0.5!?
@@folklore19 portion size
"Japan did want to invade Korea." Admiral Yi would like to know your location
Well where was he in 1895 and 1905? Of and 1910?
@@ryanjapan3113 he was captured by Walpole
Alright where's the necromancy spell and his grave?
@@Royal-sd8eh probably lol
@@ryanjapan3113 He was spinning on his grave like a dynamo
What is with samurai and being attacked at inn's? It's like Austria and World Wars.
yikes/10
Or Czechoslovakia and windows.
Japanese inns were like taverns in D&D or modern day bars/coffee shops. Places where people gathered to chat, drink and just hang out.
It was the INN thing to do
@@bigred2989 **Prague Defenestrations Intenify**
*Finger hovers over the Play-Button of Sabaton's 'Shiroyama'*
Patience...Patience...
The anticipation is killing me
Soon...soon.
Next Episode Brothers
Hold the line!
Hold till dawn boys. Hold till dawn.
The Sabaton song and fans are about to come next episode.
They already did.
Bushido. Dignify. Itâs the last stand of the samurai.
I can hear the guitars prepping for their memorials.
Imperial force defied its the last stand of the samurai
When the metal nerds arive we shall all suffer
Therapist: Matt with 6 fingers isn't real, he can't hurt you.
Matt with 6 fingers: 2:19
Cursed_image
Oh thank God someone else saw that. I kept scrolling going "someone else has to have noticed this, right?!" My brain just went "wait, something isn't right", so I rewinded a bit, and... Sweet Jesus.
Even though the characters all have only 3 fingers, that doesn't bother me for some reason. 5 fingers though? Terrifying.
He is also talking about a five point plan but with 6 fingers. There is some small print that we didn't see.
I laughed SO hard at this moment, because the character design goes from having 4 fingers to 6, making the only adhered-to logic that they NOT have 5 fingers.
1. Tokugawa didnât just retire, he joined the House of Peers and I think one of their descendants married into the imperial family.
2. The Koreans didnât recognize the Meiji emperor because the Koreans thought that they were comparing emperor Meiji to the emperor of China whom the Koreans believed befitted the kanji that the Japanese used in that diplomatic correspondence.
3. I hope Iâm not jumping the gun but I want to push back a bit on the idea of restoring power to the emperor. The Genro held the power in the Emperorâs name. They created this centralized autocracy whose goal was to protect the emperor from any actual decision making. They could give him the credit for successes and insulate him from failures. Itâs really important to dig into this system since it worked well while the Genro were alive and able to direct state policies, but after World War I and the Genro were all dying off it left Japan in a situation where the military didnât have to listen to civilian government while the Emperor Showa either could not or would not do anything to rein them in.
Ninja tactics outsmart the Samurai yet again
How did you comment before the video existed?!
Well most of samurai were also ninja
1:58 (Not so) fun fact: The White Tiger unit or the Byakkotai in Japanese is a reserve unit made up of young, teenager age samurai boys. They're like 16-17 years old, and the youngest was only 13.
They retreated to a hill overlooking the Wakamatsu castle and saw what they thought was the castle on fire. Thinking that their side have been defeated, the entire unit commited suicide there. Only 1 survivor among 20 boys.
It's tragic but poetic somewhat.
I suppose that was a smart move on the imperial government's part to honor them, because the war is messy as hell and it's hard to say if there's really a "right" or "wrong" side in this whole series of battles, revolts, and rebellions. So commemorating those young boys as a tragic loss in war, rather than dismissing them as simply enemies of the emperor, was a very honorable thing to do.
8:47 *Swedish Power Metal echoes in the distance...*
Is no one going to talk about how at 1:33 Yoshinobu is painting a picture or Walpole??
Its always Walpole
Every time, it's Walpole
Inns really seem to be the preferred location for assassinations in this series.
The moral of the story is; if you don't want to die, don't go to an inn.
Also, if you see someone wearing a basket hat in an empty street, it's too late. The death flag is already raised.
Or go to one with a Spanish medic. ;)
Saigo Takamori: *goes to a korean inn*
2:19
cursed hand
Oh my
this already happened in the Jeanne-d'Arc-Series I think
why?
Oh
Damn all of Japanese history happens in an inn, huh?
Inn-deed!
Inn-credibly accurate!
Japan's history takes place inn Japan.
Inn-teresting...
Weâre starting to go inn-to a rabbit hole
"Voices of the Past" goes through some of these travels based on primary sources. They're pretty interesting.
Yesss!
Lol i also just pointed to that channel because of that. Story about france was so goddamn funny :âD
"Wasn't steampunk samurai awesome?" is not a sentence I expected to hear today.
1:33
..is that Walpoole?
WAAAAAALPOOOOOOOOLE!!!
"The Imperial Army" is an unpleasant word to a Chinese ear. But great episode as always, fascinating stories.
Chinese, Korean, Filipino, Indonesian, Pacific... A lot of ears, to be honest.
Forced injection of democracy tamed 2 mad dogs. You have to give that to the US.
Japan: *has revolution that completely reshapes their society
Also Japan: *doesn't murder all of the political enemies
they learned at least one thing from rome
I donât think thatâs how the meme works but ok, good meme
@@henrypaleveda7760 look what happen to him(Ceasar) tho
The opposite of the USSR
"This 5-point plan" I'll never unsee that hand. 2:18
Sabayon fans: âHold the line! BROTHERS, HOLD!â
"Do not forget to batter in an eight form untill you get a foamy emulsion!"
Next: Episode The Sabaton Fans Arrived
Coming down leaving a Like
We are always here
Weâve been here the whole time, waiting for our chance to strike
We are already here
@@lavalslounge335 good to see there many more Peoples of Culture then what ever Bionce and Bieber are singing
Imperial force defied, facing 500 samurai. Surrounded and out numbered, 60 to 1 the sword face the gun.
Saigo offering himself to be assassinated by the Koreans so that Japan can legally invade Korea is the Chaddiest move in Chad moves history.
Fr
Takamori just being okay with getting assassinated so that Japan could justify a war is being a bit too patriotic.
not just war but create colony like western colonialism and revenge for Tadayoshi failed invasion before
@@reinardish you mean Toyotomi?
@@ryanjapan3113 Yeah that one haha, i always forgot toyotomi Family name
*Bushido Dignified!*
@@reinardish HIs full name was Toyotomi Hideyoshi so you're not entirely wrong.
Oh, I know this, this is the Tom Cruise part coming up!
Speaking of Korea after youâre finished with the end of the Samurai series. You should do a video on the First Sino Japanese War.
if you really want to, abeilt very dramatized, the South Korean drama series "Mr. Sunshine" shows a Korean view of the take over of the peninsula, which also includes the traitors in court.
The Last Princess, another SK film showing the post war treatment and return of the original Korean imperial royals, focusing on Princess Deokhye's (the last princess of the Joseon Dynasty) life in Japan after she was forced to move there at age 13 by the Imperial Japanese government, and her attempts to return to Korea.
Interesting. I always wanted to know this conflict in the Korean perspective.
Saigo Takamori's plan is actually pretty smart from his perspective. he could insure that the Samuri kept their lands and status by using the old samuri system in Japanese colonial possessions. that way he and his Samuri buddies get to still live large and be far enough away that reformers might consider them not worth taking out during modernization.
that or they'd get owned like the last time
either way they won't be in Japan to cause problems
The Republic of Edo was supposed to be that...
War is not a good thing. It causes death, destruction, and it creates reparations.
"he and his Samuri buddies"
except he wouldn't be alive to see it uf they used his plan
2:20
Words cannot describe what I feel at this image
When did the imperial government also pardon the Aizu Clan for siding with the Shogunate in the Boshin War?
Iâm saying this because I remember watching a Smithsonian channel documentary about a famous samurai warrior queen, an Aizu Samurai whose name is Takeko Nakano. Her clan fought on the side of the Shogunate during the Boshin War. From what we know the shogunate was defeated and as a result, most of the clans loyal to the Shogun including the Aizu, were forced into exile to the northern island of Hokkaido.
Since we all know that Hokkaido would also fall under imperial rule. The biggest question that I want to know of course is when was the Aizu Clan pardon by the Imperial government for siding with the Shogun in the Boshin War?
They were "pardoned" but really exiled
2:19
Ah, yes, the "5-point hand".
the unification and modernization of japan has something impressive in how brilliantly is was performed
And then Tom Cruise came down from the Heavens to film The Last Samurai.
2:21 Chernobyl Hand
2:20 One, two, three...wait a moment...
Furiously waiting for the next episode to quote lyrics from âShiroyamaâ
4:10
One person is not like the others.
Itâs the guy with a beard
Yea he is the only one wearing blue
6:37 This is what happens when you favor style over substance in roleplaying games lmao.
There's a lot of samurai around. The class grew during years of civil war and it's hard to rescind feudal privileges.
Lots of them have already started looking for other jobs that their class status would allow them to perform. You aren't expected to become a samurai farmer but they started to fill out the ranks of magistrates and teachers etc.
A lot of the police units, officer corps and administrators of the imperial government are repurpoused samurai. But there's still a lot of them who aren't part of the in-group.
The amount of assassinations in this era of Japanese history really makes me wish for a Mejii era Assassins Creed game.
"Omura Masashiro modenized the Choshu army".
Takasugi Shinsaku: "Am I a joke to you?"
I've said this a hundred times, but every time the episode is about to end I get goosebumps
this series has been so much fun I thought I knew stuff but you guys always seem to find out al sorts of fun tidbits I had never heard before I can't wait for the next episode
By giving everything up to emperor actually protected the interest of Choshu domain. Most of the daimyos were lack of military strength after Boshin War that only Choshu and Satsuma retained their power because they were the victor. Remember the daimyos surrendered their military to the emperor, not the state. Military leaders were also former samurais are still in control of their own military without parliament's oversight because they sworn loyalty to the emperor but not to the nation of Japan. It is very complicated power struggle for the next 76 years after Boshin War until the end of WWII among military, parliament, and the emperor.
this is probably the most intriguing extra history episodes i have ever seen
Maybe Indy and Joacim can hop in for a quick visit and let everyone know about the shiroyama video on sabaton history.
Just found Okubo Toshimichi's picture online. That dude had the coolest beard ever
That little Walpole painting near the start of the video was absolutely glorious!
Plot Twist: The voice actor of SpongeBob and the voice actor of Karen, Planktonâs computer wife, have been married since 1995.
off-topic but ok
loved this episode... thanks a lot :)
"Why don't we take the samurai, and put them somewhere else?" Which if I recall, was the reasoning of other adventures into Korea, mainly to lose most of your formal rivals.
I love the quality of these videos
1:33 Excellent painting of Walpole
WOW! This is getting exciting.
Saigo was a god damn madlad
His response is pretty much, if all samurai died in battle then we wouldnât have a samurai problem.
You should do an extra history on Queen Min, the last empress of the Korean empire. She was assassinated by japanese agents in the 1890s and was politically savvy and interesting.
Narrowly survived a samourai assasination attempt only to die due to dirty water.
Most anticlimatic end ever.
Gunpowder : exists
Samurai's : *You weren't supposed to do that*
The samurai *had* gunpowder when the Americans showed up and forcefully opened their borders. They just didn't have steam-powered ships, modern percussion cap firearms, powerful naval cannons, gatlings guns and telecommunications. They had flintlock firearms which they used extensively, but they were obsolete, in insufficient numbers, and most definitely not enough to take down a steam warship and a modern army.
After the unification wars of the Tokugawa era, the only people allowed to have guns are... The Samurai...
"five point plan".... so goodly illustraed
I have been waiting
7:35 During the intro I thought "Well, he may escape, but bathing in murky water with a wound is a sure recipe for infection". I'm glad to see I was right :D
Cant wait to see the next ep of extra history- Rurouni Kenshin edition
Samurai with a revolver and a katana wearing a Napoleon uniform charging on a horse sounds like something i read in a fanfic forum
here iT COMES!!!
You know, it feels like almost every episode in this series involves something terrible happening at an inn. XD
8:17 is just EVERYTHING to me
Great story. Even though I know it you present it well.
You should do a series on the whole Meji period!
Fukoku kyouhei
I was surprised to see the concept here. Thanks sengoku komachi
looking forwards to the Satsuma Rebellion episode
That spontaneous polydactylism at 2:20 đ
7:47 Because they wrote the letter very arrogant to the Joseon government. And they didnât use the stamp that Joseon Government give to them.
Walpole!
To add a little something here, the Battle of Shiromaya was a turning point in Japanese history. The samurai army led by Saigo Takamoria of the Satsuma domain was surrounded and outnumbered 60 to 1. 30,000 imperial troops vs 500 samurai. This battle ended an era in Japan.
A little early mate!
@@DeezNutz-yg8io Thought I might mention this due to its historical significance.
nice
Last time I was this early Japan still had closed borders
This vary interesting
About to have a certain Sabaton song stuck in my head at the next episode...
Wonderful, canât wait to see appearance of Tom Cruise
"Now, was it steam punk samurai awesome?! Aww heck yeah!"
"ThE gOv'miNT's gONna gEt mA SwoRDS!" some things never change
Well, they did end up all dying, and Japan became a militaristic empire, soâŠ
Who will kill Omura Masujiro?
-A band of skilled assassins ready to kill those who stand in the way of their missions
or
-Some dirty bathwater
You better have gotten the right to a certain sabaton song for the next episode.....
This series fills me with ruroken nostalgia
2:20 I like the touch that he has 5 fingers
60 to 1, facing the gun! 60 to 1, culture undone!
Man it mustâve hurt so much trying to be underwater with 2 big wounds while not trying to scream for like 2 minutes
Now I want to see a video (series) of the war between Korea and Japanđ
2:57
Emperor Meiji: I'm abandoning Sonno Joi
*TOP TEN ANIME BETRAYALS*
yes.... its here....
This is amazing episode