Rise of Oda Nobunaga - Battle of Okehazama 1560 DOCUMENTARY
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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series will focus on the history of Japan continues with an episode on the Rise of Oda Nobunaga and the battles of Okehazama and Nagashima. In this series on the Sengoku Jidai period of Japanese history, we will talk about the clan Oda and how its representative Nobunaga became the Shogun defeating multiple enemies.
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I'm still waiting for more of Alexander the Great's history and the Italian Wars.
Please Nader Shah Absher searies next week please.
Make video about the tocharians people
You guys need to make a game
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Netflix should give their entire budget of historical documentaries to K&G. We will eat up the new content endlessly.
Agreed!
Yes. Yes they should.
Then it would be locked behind a paywall.
That's what Magellan TV is for hehe
I have to agree with you. I have seen the Netflix series, and re-enactments are terrible, and very shallow at best. Their portrayal of Nobunaga is an insult, portraying him as an over-weighed bully dressed like a pauper.
My lord a glorious victory will soon be yours!
SHAMEFUR DISPRAY
@@mukhriz9959 bruh this made me spit up my beer lmao
Ahhhh Total war 2 Shogun such a nostalgic game
The enemy are retreating from the battlefield
Tighten your helmet straps
Japanese history is fascinating. Also, this is another example of why it's a bad idea to celebrate too early on a battlefield. Win the war, then celebrate. Great video.
Well keep in mind that's how the Oda interpreted the Imagawa army's behavior after the battle, we generally believe they exaggerated heavily. The Imagawa still had numerous challenges ahead of them, many of which should have been more significant than the ramshackle Oda clan. Yoshimoto was a big stickler for showmanship, he was known to imitate Imperial court nobles and tbf Yoshimoto brought many positive changes to the Imagawa clan and the region as a whole. He believed maintaining traditions even for minor victories was paramount to maintain high moral and the prestige of their cause.
Anyhow whether their celebrating and resting for the next big fight was really to blame for their downfall or not they were definitely caught off guard by the Oda. The big takeaway for me is never underestimate your enemy no matter how insignificant they may appear on paper.
Yep, I'm particularly intrigued by the Sengoku Jidai period and the history of Japan's three great unifiers: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyashu.
Arsenal
@@FShani All good points. My initial comment was just my first thoughts on the event.
"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win." - Sun Tzu
Finally, a sengoku era series. This is honestly one of my favorite eras as it's an era where guns, bows, swords, spears, and cavalry can be found in the battlefield. Especially how Nobunaga used the Matchlock infantry, If you probably dropped him during the Napoleonic era, he probably wouldn't be that surprised except the size of the battles.
He also used christianity to make his troops more resilient to resist the myths and practices of the warrior monks of Ikko Ikki. He did many clever things and is only outmatched in wits by his vassal and heir Ieyasu.
Reminds me of their videos on the conquest of Central and South America. Gunpowder, swords, spears, and cavalry and obsidian weapons.
To some extent you’re right. But you have to remember that guns were more affective in Japanese warfare than European warfare at that time because Japanese armor was less evolved.
@@epsilon3821 He did much more that tolerate them. He sided with Jesuit missionaries in a debate against Buddhist monks, and gave them prime land in his newly constructed city of Azuchi over his actual retainers for a Jesuit school/mission. He allowed them to preach and build churches. After his death Christians were persecuted because they no longer has his protection.
Ieyasu was 100% a vasal. That's what it's called when a lord/king/daimyo/etc has other lords serving under them.
And for those Legion vs Phalanx debaters, the pike formations were well and truly alive during the Sengoku Jidai while the Roman triplex acies formations were dumped by the Romans themselves.
the warring states period is an interesting topic, can't wait for this series
Probably should indicate Japanese Warring States or Chinese Warring States since both have the same name. China's one is about 2000 years earlier than Japanese one.
The most important thing to note is that even in this chaos emperor was still worshiped. From 1185 to 1867, it was shoguns who ruled but at the same time it was emperors who reigned.
@@eden6056 You can't tell which one he's talking about in the comment section of a video about the Japanese one? Lmao
@@commissar6860 No , I meant that its probably more helpful to specify which Warring States. Cause there are two Warring States period. Like how there is a Chinese Three Kingdoms and a Korean one
@@commissar6860 Anyway the Sengoku Period of Japan had smaller scale wars than the Zhanguo periof of China. In the Late Zhanguo period , there was battles such as the Battle Of Chang Ping with close to 800 thousand total soldiers and 600 thousand casualties
Now THIS is how you do an actual documentary about Japan and the warring states period! Looking at you NETFLIX!
What did Netflix do?
@@masterplokoon8803 Well, they TRIED to make a documentary essentially about the 3 unifiers of Japan. Now…when I said „TRIED“ I meant they pretty much wasted money to make a shitty version of what could have been a pretty nice docu series. But that‘s just MY opinion.
ikr the netflix one didnt work
@@JOEMAMA-do1ji Well if you would be a „normie“ I think the NETFLIX docu series is okay-ish. But…if you‘re interested in and know about history and japanese history, armory and so on, I wouldn‘t recommend watching it.
@@LydiotGamingTV “normie…”
Yes, another Feudal Japan video!
Oda conquering one province after another is like watching a Shogun Total War gameplay :)
He's trying to avoid the dooms stacks that come from the fog of war.
The war god bishamonten has woken
@jordanfan5896
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Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知:
No one wanted to be Oda Nobunaga’s friend especially No bunnies/women nor let him be the Japanese Shogun because his boy Odor/Oda and mouth Odors/Oda were too strange. Do he always stay at his own Castle and bring Castaway!?.!,,,?’c
My ancestor is Baba Nobuharu, a general under the Takeda Shingen. Because of this, I was always interested in this period. Thanks for the video!
One of Shingen's 24... Honor to you and your ancestors... He was a great man...
@@steelshanks1265 Too harshly fate for Shingen , he was unable to give advice to his sons, if that's so his clan might be exist in a huge scale or even oppose IIeyasu regime, at reality only The uesuegi the one who oppose in East field, causing IIeyasu regime lasted hundreed of years
Ah yes the Tiger of Kai province. 🙏
@@afdalridwan3813 Katsuyori was advised , he chose to ignore that advice and the advice of his senior generals and attacked a far larger force in a fortified position which is military suicide.
@@mrnice7570True, almost literally all the Generals except like one guy advised againts it. The guy who opposed the advice wasn’t even one of the veteran officers Shingen had. Katsuyori really couldn’t have picked a worse battlefield situation to fight at.
The warrior monks were also one of the reason why the christians initially were welcomed. Buddist monks did politics and were a thorn in the side for the warlords. However where strong christian communities arose, life became difficult for the monks, and this played well with the daimyo (if I remember well more than 70 daimyos converted to christianism)
True
Oda also forcibly converted many Daimyos, their families, and much of his court to Christianity between 1550-60. He stated that those who did not convert, would be made peasants, stripped of all their lands and titles, and their families left to starve.
@@theuniverse5173 it was political not religious reasons why he did that, in order to rise to the top Oda would need to break all influence the monks would have in his court
Nobunaga did not believe in the existence of God.
He called himself the Sixth Heavenly slaughterer.
Nobunaga says that there is no Creator of the universe, no immortality of the soul, no prize or punishment in the afterlife.
If there were a God, I would kill him.
He protected Buddhists if they followed him.
He protected Christians because they could trade guns and other unique goods from missionaries.
Nobunaga would have killed every single Christian when he had no use for them, because he believed that if he left the missionaries alone, they would colonize the country.
@@charlescook5542 I know of his political machinations, but to my knowledge I thought he himself was a Christian. I may have missed something however..
Hello 👋 from japan, i live in Osaka and visited Oda Nobunaga before. His grave is located in Koyasan, wakayama
🙏 thank you so much for very interesting video, much love
Your people's history is so rich and wonderful to learn about , the three unifiers, sengoku , seppukku , the mound of ears, the divine wind etc. It is truly the land of the gods. May you be reborn samurai in the next life
@jordanfan5896
0 seconds ago
Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知:
No one wanted to be Oda Nobunaga’s friend especially No bunnies/women nor let him be the Japanese Shogun because his boy Odor/Oda and mouth Odors/Oda were too strange. Do he always stay at his own Castle and bring Castaway!?.!,,,!.?
Just when I think I’m out
*starts up Shogun 2 again*
they pull me right back in!
Yeah, same here...
I'm Moroccan and I love Japan. I have been a fan of Nobunaga since i learned about japanese history, especially the battle of Okehazama. Thanks for making this documentary.
As a bilingual American who's lived in Japan for 30 years, thank you to this channel for not butchering the Japanese names. I was very happy with all the pronunciations. Once again I am impressed by this excellent channel.
I've noticed that too with other languages! These guys really put in the extra effort to say things correctly and I appreciate the heck out of it as well
@@jrodriguez1374 For my language they always mess up the place where the accent is positioned, then I don’t know about the others
@@CrusaderMapper Which place
@@jk-gb4et Italy
@@CrusaderMapper i hear you, their accents aren't perfect, they're not natives. But they try very hard and it shows
Oooo I wrote my thesis about Nobunaga and his use of firearms, I'm pumped!!
Kings and Generals: *Makes a feudal Japan vid*
Me: Now do another
Nobunaga was the most innovative and consistent battlefield commander of the period, and an excellent strategist as well. More than just a warrior, he was also a great statesman. He is kind of like Philip and Alexander in one for his administrative and tactical acumen.
You mean Julius Caesar
@@cristhianramirez6939 Considering they both end their lives in betrayal thats real interesting
@@The_OneManCrowd No shit have you seen afghanistan? Pretty much everyone knows what ur saying already.
Shingen was just as good if not better IMO
@@edwardli9856 Debatable. It's hard to tell because these men were also a product of the cards they were dealt. Had their roles been reversed with shingen in owari and nobunaga in kai in another timeline, we would be able to accurately compare.
your artists killed it on this one great work
You guys use Shogun 2 so much more beautifully than I do haha! So good!
You also make excellent videos. Don’t discredit yourself!
As a history teacher I've been waiting so long for something like this! There's very few feudal Japan resources to hook students with. This was an excellent morning!
There’s literally anime
@@comradekenobi6908 yes it is lol as much as watching Pearl Harbor for 100th time. Shit the og shogun war got me into history. By the time I was in hs history was easy af
@@comradekenobi6908 plenty of anime about samurais lol
@@comradekenobi6908 Meiji restoration baby
@@comradekenobi6908 smh 🤦🏻♂️
The new animation styles made this video super engaging and really immersive. Please keep it up! It’s great!
Sengoku period is my favorite of all in Japanese history. Thank you for this video! You did great job! Can't wait for the next part
Mas Oyama (大山 倍達) once stated:
"The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere"
Pair this with the Sengoku Jidai series from the channel "The Shogunate" for peak perfection.
The shogunate really did a good job covering the Sengoku period series
Shogunate has 12 hrs of Sengoku history.....what a GEM!!!
Thank you so much for the support!!!!
@@TheShogunate Your channel is one of the best history/education channels on youtube. Always top notch content.
@jordanfan5896
0 seconds ago
Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知:
No one wanted to be Oda Nobunaga’s friend especially No bunnies/women nor let him be the Japanese Shogun because his boy Odor/Oda and mouth Odors/Oda were too strange. Do he always stay at his own Castle and bring Castaway!?.!,,.!??!
Excellent video, it's really enlightening to see the entire map like you've put together while covering major events. I've read about a lot of them individually but really nice to see how they tied together to leave Nobunaga with the setup advantage. 10/10 for always putting so much effort into the pronunciation of names and locations.
This made my day! Looking forward to the next episode already :)
Thanks for your analyses on the Sengoku period, one of my favorite eras of history.
"Surprise - the smaller clan wins and the leader of that clan steals the idea of invading capital and invades the capital. And it goes very well👍 He's about half way through conquering Japan when someone who works for him kills him" - that's how I remember it. Thanks for expanding my knowledge
and then someone else who works for him kills them, and that guy finishes conquering Japan.
@@marrrtin And a vassal of that guy waiting patiently till that guy died from old age and too much sex, split the country into 2 faction then become the last unifier by subjugating the west main island.
@@satriorama4118 that was a reference to bill wurtz "history of Japan". But thx for additional info
@jordanfan5896
0 seconds ago
Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知:
No one wanted to be Oda Nobunaga’s friend especially No bunnies/women nor let him be the Japanese Shogun because his boy Odor/Oda and mouth Odors/Oda were too strange. Do he always stay at his own Castle and bring Castaway!?.!,,.!!;?
Brilliant! I could watch more of these. you did a cracking job with this, please carry on
Easily the best channel on youtube. My history teacher I never had but dreamed of
Amazing video! looking forward to this series!
How tf did you comment 9 hours ago man?!
@@saptarshimallick5662 there is a glitch in the matrix
@@saptarshimallick5662 Members of CZcams channels can watch videos early.
@jordanfan5896
0 seconds ago
Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知:
No one wanted to be Oda Nobunaga’s friend especially No bunnies/women nor let him be the Japanese Shogun because his boy Odor/Oda and mouth Odors/Oda were too strange. Do he always stay at his own Castle and bring Castaway!?.!,,,,!!
I love your videos on Japan, a video on the Otomo clan would be legendary or all major clans to be honest! Excited about this mini series!
Hey, you make those really good experience videos! Keep up the good work.
Haven't watched this yet but I've saved it to watch later! Most likely during my lunch break tomorrow. Super excited!
So did you finally watch it??
Also how was your day mate?
@@saintmichael5253 sure did!
@@saintmichael5253 lockdown life mate! Not much happening but greatful to be okay. Hope your also doing well buddy!
@jordanfan5896
0 seconds ago
Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知:
No one wanted to be Oda Nobunaga’s friend especially No bunnies/women nor let him be the Japanese Shogun because his boy Odor/Oda and mouth Odors/Oda were too strange. Do he always stay at his own Castle and bring Castaway!?.!,,:/??,
Looking forward to this series! Thanks
I just can't get enough of this channel it's awesome!!👍
Glad to see one of my favorite time periods. Keep up the great work Kings and Generals!
Omfg! Finally a new sengoku jidai series. Thank you sooooo much for this.
This is very new to me thanks for the video i never knew about this war thank u so much and its so interesting,
pls make more pls
Having learnt an incredible amount of the history of the Samurai and prominent figures. Even the details people often overlook and look to sources that don't tell the full story
It's always a pleasure to see something like this
I've been waiting for this!
Here comes the Mad Dog, the Demon King, the Man, the Legend! Oda Nobunaga!
The Onimusha.
The Dai Rokuten Maou
Nice. A series about the end of the Sengoku Jidai is wonderful
Can't wait for the next episode!! 👍
We look forward to this series!
You just keep dropping bangers.
Fantastic as usual! Thanks.
Exciting to see the continuance of this series!
Thank you very much for a video about Japan history☺️☺️☺️
Been playing shogun 2 alot lately, and the Oda clan is by far the best clan to play.
So exited for you to Cover more japanese History!
You guys really never miss!! another great video!!
Great stuff! Can’t wait for the episode(s) on Uesugi Kenshin.
Great video. You're the best
Thank you K&G, I’m a big history buff and I know the names of the big three unifiers of Japan but when it comes to Chinese and Japanese history and the names and stuff I have trouble remembering and keeping up with who is who, your series and visual representation is really helping me and assisting me in learning more ❤️
VERY GOOD VIDEO been a fan of this era long time. i have several books about it
Never knew the story line of Nobunaga Concierto is a true story until this video. Great work!
Looking forward to more videos on this series~
The battle that started the legend of Oda Nobunaga. Looking forward for more battles!! Especially the Battle of Nagashino 🔥🔥
excellent video,many thanks
Lessgooooooooooo
Super hype for this series.
So excited for this Sengoku series. One of the most turbulent and fascinating times in history.
Noooo! I didn't want this to be over. 😤😭 This was bad ass, Devin. More please 🙏🏻. Very soon please. 🙏🏻
Even though I already know this part of Japanese history , it's still great to see you guys doing it.
Patiently wait for part 2..
👍
Your channel taught me more history then my school in six years thank you
Amazing work as usual.
Props to my friend Malay!
The Oda must be fire types because they seem to have a lot of trouble fighting enemies who can effectively use water attacks against them.
Liked before i watched knew it was gunna be good !
Love this time period, wish you took more time to cover it.
We love these Japan videos keep them up 👍👍👍
Oda Nobunaga is my favourite samurai. I've heard a few different translations of Oda's "Tenka Fubu". My favourite that i've heard goes: "All the world by force of arms".
I salute this channel 🖖
Excellent video 📹
The making of modern Japan 🇯🇵
Look forward to part 2
I was literally going to look up sengoku jidai stuff today and here is a timely video.
This is such high quality content
Can't wait for more.
We need a shogun 3 with three kingdoms mechanics.
Also great Video, love the improvements of the graphics
Yes. We also need a new Rome total war with three kingdoms mechanics.
There is already one. It is called Nobugana’s ambition
you know that C.A will not be able to make a good historical total war
Wasn't the Three Kingdoms totally dumbed down and ventured into the RPG "special abilities"/arcade-y realm? I remember the shock when first comming to R2TW, from all the previous TW series (starting with the original Shogun: Total War in 2000), though luckily it had one great mod (DEI), who redeemed it for it.
From what I saw on some YT materials, it seems like CA progressed into the "arcadization" of the series into the TW:Warhammer kind, no?
@@Haamre pretty much, from example archers don't have a range bonus from terrain, and in warhammer they streamline a lot of stuff, gunners don't have a reloading animation and range is king in that game, infantry is not that important like in the older games
Thanks for the video, with Netflix like documentary.
Mesmerized by it explanation... Great K&G
can't wait for the next
Awesome video once again. I look forward to every K&G video that happens to even brush on my college topics.
Spotted one tiny mistake though. The correct name of the Clan that Nobunaga laid siege to in Omi province is the "Rokkaku" Clan, not the "Rokaku" Clan.
Keep up the good work :)
My dude stay dropping hits!
Sengoku Jidai!! Thank you, kings and Generals!
Great video
If you're going to cover this era, a great topic to discuss would be the rivalry between Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin.
The 4 battles at Kawanakajima...
One of the most interesting part of takeda's history is where he put tokugawa at his place
@Altaf Hussain but that one moment also teach him to never underestimated people.
or the one eyed dragon aka date masamune
@jordanfan5896
0 seconds ago
Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知:
No one wanted to be Oda Nobunaga’s friend especially No bunnies/women nor let him be the Japanese Shogun because his boy Odor/Oda and mouth Odors/Oda were too strange. Do he always stay at his own Castle and bring Castaway!?.!,,,.!!.
I loved this one, and the use of footage from shogun 2 breaks it up really well
Good stuff!
Danke!
A series on Oda Nobunaga!!!! YES!!!!!!
"Immovable as the Mountain" from 18:25 onwards... always gets me misty eyed.
Another brilliant video!
That sounds like a sentence from a Xianxia novel
As sturdy as Mount Tai
@@hidof9598 it's a great piece! Reminds me of my mother. Give it a listen sometime! Hav a good day.
@@treeless_leaf , that's not a novel though
That's a sentence used in Xianxia novels(the genre refers to stories in which people cultivate powers to become immortal, gaining advanced abilities like flying, walking on water and throwing power orbs)
@jordanfan5896
0 seconds ago
Jordan Fan，Prophet of Environment。范楚漳，環境先知:
No one wanted to be Oda Nobunaga’s friend especially No bunnies/women nor let him be the Japanese Shogun because his boy Odor/Oda and mouth Odors/Oda were too strange. Do he always stay at his own Castle and bring Castaway!?.!,,Cd,?!
Awesome video!
Amazing series. I hope they continue through the whole sengoku period. Maybe even go over some of the other clans.
Arigato gojaimasu for making another magnificent video on Nippon's Sengoku Jidai period.
Great show
Looking for this series. This is one of my favorite histories series all time. much of Clan conflict and Intervene from western like Weapons and religion make this more bloody times.
Thank you
Can't wait for another part
i:ve been reading a textbook on the life of nobunaga, hideyoshi, and ieyasu. Absolutely love this era. And i lvoe it almost as much as i love shogun 2 lol. Great video! :D
I love the presentation and there are a lot of good and interesting details. However, I do feel you're missing some critical details about some of the most important moments of Oda Nobunaga's career.
First, while the young Fool of Owari was destined to succeed his father the Tiger of Owari Nobuhide, he was not expected to be the head of the Oda clan or to control Owari province. Nobunaga's family were a branch family of the Oda clan. His uncle was head of the Oda, and they in turn were vassals to the Shiba clan of Owari. Thus it isn't so unreasonable for a young Kipposhi to be seen running with peasants and shirking responsibility as he never envisioned he'd become daimyo.
Second, the exact size of Imagawa Yoshimoto's army is unknown. Most historians generally agree it was between 25-35k men. However, the Imagawa purposefully released reports ahead of them that they commanded a force of 85k. For reference most major battles in Europe around this time featured 10-20k men in total between two countries. You can begin to fathom what Nobunaga's officers were going through seeing him so casually disregard reports of the Imagawa's strength and marching into an open field conflict.
At Okehazama battle had already commenced on several fronts prior to Nobunaga's arrival and move out on the Imagawa camp. With clashes on the front lines against a series of forts you can understand how a force of a few thousand Oda troops might go unnoticed. The resulting surprise attack on Imagawa's HQ caused panic and chaos. Many of the Imagawa samurai having been drinking or resting were convinced the Oda force had somehow crushed the Imagawa vanguard and that they had already lost the field of battle (which of course was not true, numerous Imagawa forces still roamed the field out of sight). The story of Yoshimoto dodging the spear thrust only to be beheaded from behind is most likely a fabrication, we have other reports that he fought valiantly to the end trying to regroup his forces.
Nobunaga's retreat from the Asai/Asakura surprise attack was nearly disastrous for the Oda clan. Nobunaga was shot in the retreat by Rokakku clan ambushers, and Hideyoshi was also in grave danger during the rear guard against Asakura. To begin with Nobunaga was convinced his brother-in-law Asai Nagamasa would never betray him. Nagamasa was known as a particularly honorable man, and lady Oichi is recorded as being an exceptionally valued woman. However, when the Asai formed their alliance with the Oda one of the conditions was that the Oda would inform the Asai if they ever planned to go to war with their longtime allies the Asakura. Nobunaga assumed it was a mere formality that could be ignored, but Nagamasa was a stickler for propriety. Thus he saw Nobunaga as disregarding their alliance and had no choice but to come to Asakura's aid.
Takeda Shingen was indeed confused by Tokugawa Ieyasu's moves following the decisive battle of Mikatagahara. Thus he missed the opportunity to finish off Ieyasu who left his castle gates open (in the desperate hope that more of his men would return alive from Mikatagahara; they did not). However, the Takeda did not retreat from their invasion due to an abundance of caution. The Tokugawa night raids on the Takeda siege lines dealt punitive damage to the Takeda, who were forced back into wet ditches and slaughtered in mass. It is unclear why the Takeda side suffered so heavily during these fights in spite of their vast advantages over the Tokugawa, but it is commonly attributed to a breakdown in communication on the Takeda side. The breakdown may even have been caused by the death (or perhaps merely collapse from an old war wound) of Takeda Shingen himself, possibly to a Tokugawa marksmen during the night though that explanation is usually viewed with skepticism by historians. The Tokugawa side couldn't explain it any better than we can as they could not see what happened on the Takeda side, but the result of the night raids was a disastrous defeat of the Takeda that forced them to withdraw back to Kai.
Still, a lot of great info you provided here, I just felt it needed a few clarifications. Keep up the good content.