If anyone's confused, shugo is a predecessor word for daimyo. Their role is the same but the title was changed. Ok, now back to the video.

Level 1: Merchant Level 100: Shogun

These videos are SAVING MY LIFE IN COLLEGE right now! My classes on Japanese history are kicking my butt! Thank you very much, super helpful and simplify what you really need to know!

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Awesome! I like your videos. One thing I would say is that the hierarchy among farmers/fishermen, artisans, and merchants is questioned today because of evidence that those people were able to change their classes easily and fluidly. Many modern historians think that it was not a social hierarchy but just an occupation classification, so most Japanese history textbooks today have been revised to delete it as a hierarchy.

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I know next to nothing about Japanese history (school doesn’t exactly teach the actually cool and interesting stuff) and now I am suddenly immensely intrigued Probably because of ghost of Tsushima

It's always a treat when I can finally get the time to watch these. Keep up the good work.

I love the fact that you go into details, while also showing the carved wooden blocks as it is one of the few historical portrays of events and stories that rarely changed over time.

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I can't wait for a new Video! my book heart of a samurai questions is kicking me over japan!

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just found your video's, fascinating, and full of information often otherwise not known of.

Very glad I eventually found your channel; always providing very succinct and nice info on the eras. Hoping if you continue these spin-off extra videos you eventually cover the army compositions of the time periods ;D

Very fine video. I love that background music.It matched the beautiful narration.

Thank you for an other awesome video.

Great video. Clear and concise.

first time watcher, i enjoyed listening to the tone of your voice change while switching between Japanese words to English words

Playing Way of the Samurai brought me here. Pretty cool.

The Kamakura shogunate was actually known as a dyarchy, sharing power with emperor and kuge.

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Thank you so much! I just wanted to find out what the formal rank of Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima was, but I went down a rabbithole of sooooo many words that sound so similar to my western brain

Would you ever consider exploring the later impact of class and societal stratification during the Bakumatsu, and how Japan was shaped by the early Meiji Restoration?

Cool stuff being a descendant of the Ogasawara clan this give me prospective as where the Daimyo fit in.

What about ranks or jobs right in army like ashigaru, lower samurai, archers gunners , cavalry , taisho and others for next video

The Muromachi Shogunate had 15 generations of Ashikaga shoguns. In fact, the shoguns of the Muromachi Shogunate were only able to manage politics properly until about the 5 generation. In the Kamakura Shogunate(Dynasty？ before the establishment of the Muromachi Shogunatetoo), the shogun after Yoritomo was a decoration and the regent, Hojo, held the real power.

I’ve read about the Eta class who were lower than Merchants. Is this historically accurate? And would you be willing to go over the classes of prostitution? The Yoshiwara is a fascinating part of the Tokugawa period. Thank you for these videos, I’m addicted! Very objective and articulate presentations

I wonder where should priest or monk belongs to, upper class, middle class, or lower class?

Funny enough is that merchants were the lowest social link, but then they turn intu the biggest when MONEY becomes the true power, when swords were the power in the world Samurai/Knights ruled.

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Great Videos! Really enjoy your channel, it surely deserves more views and subscribers! Hope that the hype over Ghost of Tsushima helps the channel to grow!

Excellent video and all true. The westerners slowly began to realize that the Shogun was more king and court to the country while the Emperor was less king and more like the Pope as a spiritual leader of the country. Which is why so many Samurai consistently fought one another similar to how Italy felt about being ruled: to be ruled by one man or many(emperor or Senate). In essence the shogun(true military decision maker) and his retainers, or the Emperor(as a pedigree honor system). In a funny way Italy and Japan had the same issues with the same figureheads, but the roles were slightly reversed. And there was one more class below the merchants who treated as 2nd and even 3rd class citizens. The burakumin: tanners, undertaker, and butchers. Jobs that would be labeled "unclean" along with other undesirables in Japan that they lived in hamlets outside the protected walls of the cities. And the systematic racist/socialist viewpoint for these people in Japan carried on almost into the 1990s.

The lowest were the burakumin. Please do a video about them. I find that class interesting.

Can you make a video on samurai names? For example, Sanada Yukimura: he was called Benmaru during his childhood, then after the genpuku ceremony obtained the name Sanada Genjirou Nobushige. Sometimes he's also refered as Sanada Saemonnosuke. It appears Yukimura could have been a name crafted years later after his death, or probably he used "Yukimura" only at Seige of Osaka. But anyway, the question would be: why the "Genjirou" name? From where came the "Saemonnosuke" name? Was this one actually a title, and for what? I understand better where the Nobushige (and even the Yukimura) name came from, the same with Benmaru, but it would be nice to explain the samurai naming estructure during the Sengoku Era.

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With regards to listed positions in the Local and Central Administration was any entry and later promotion within them avaiable on the basis of merit? Did pre Meiji Era Japan have any form of civil service examinations, even if limited to persons of particular categories of classes?

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Wonderful and accurate video report. Ironically, it was the merchants who "financially" out ranked everyone, including the Emperor, making millions of dollars.

Can you please do one on the Kuge and Imperial Court

nice video, still sad that many people pronounce shogun wrong

Great video. Is there a way to get a copy of presentations?

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can you do this for the edo period one, especially for the overall positions within the bakufu govt shits too confusing especially when youre trying to make a lego community out of this

Well done video but one big thing missing. We need the Kanji in parenthesis under the romanji.

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Man I found myself watching 5 vídeos on a roll...lol

Just for curiosity and not knowing anything: Are different families under the same Clan? For example Oda clan, there are people with Oda for last names that are part of the Clan but can people without that last name be consider part of that Clan? Would they have less power than the people with the Oda name? Say if your family is Tofu but you're a middle class samurai you would be under the Oda Clan or serving for a lord with the Oda name?

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A question: Did the Eta/Burakumin class not exist at this time period? Was there a societal change at some point that created them similar to when Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Spoilers!) solidified the class structure and disarmed the peasants?

would it be possible to make the muromachi period thanks ?

I do respect the effort that people put into to create videos which provide educational content. Unfortunately, this particular case is possibly the worst-researched video I have seen in a long time. Some glaring points of critique (skip to the tl;dr at the bottom if the wall-of-text scares you): 1. The social structure here attempts to describe the Edo-period, and significantly deviates from the medieval society this video is supposed to be about. For example: a) There was no difference in status between commoners before the Edo period, when the Confucian-influenced four-caste-system with warriors on top and merchants on bottom was forced upon society; also, I do think that it is more appropriate during the early medieval period to think of bushi (=warriors; its better to speak of samurai only for the Edo-period) as low-ranked nobles within the court-centric social order who did serve as officials in provincial governments and the managers of villages and estates - and well, whose profession(!) was that of warrior. b) Different from *foot soldiers*, "ashigaru" did not exist until the Sengoku period. c) The concept of rônin is also an Edo-thing. 2. Likewise, the descriptions of offices and structures of the shogunates are mired with superficially researched tidbits of information, which stitched together produce a multitude of inconsistencies. Some examples: a) Provincial governors and shugo are conceptionally different and were appointed to provinces in parallel, by court and shogunate respectively. The authority of shugo during the Kamakura period was quite limited and needs to be conceptually separated from what scholarship refers to as "shugo daimyô" - a pre-evolutionary stage of Sengoku daimyô - of the Muromachi period. b) The central administration diagrams are a mess, some Kamakura examples: - the hikitsukeshû should be directly placed below the hyôjôshû, who together composed the core elite of Kamakura - the yoriai - the highest decision-making organ within the late (~1280s onward) Kamakura shogunate - is missing entirely - the Kyoto shugo was abolished(!) and replaced by the Rokuhara tandai in 1221 as a result of the Jôkyû Disturbance - of course, many of these institutions should exist next to each other instead of being stacked vertically (no hierarchy) . . . the list goes on. 3. Only pre-war (=before the 1950s) scholars would ever even consider that the court during this period was "powerless" and is a refuted piece of nonsense that for some reason lingers on in popular "myth". The scholarly term - in English - to describe the Kamakura period is "dual polity" for a reason. I will stop here. tl;dr: Don't use this video as a reference for your exams (or for anything else, probably). And to the author, I'd honestly take this down, read a few good books, and redo it from scratch.

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Hi, I am going to be playing The Ghost og tshiuminia PS4 game which is based on the time when the Mongols invaded and got destroyed pretty much lol. What videos (if you have any:) would you recommend which are all set in that era?, as I want to be knowledgable exactly of the time I will be playing the game in! Any recommendations? Etc.. thanks, love your videos

As remarked by japanese historians regarding the case of Hachiman, the Emperor was above the hierarchy of Ritsuryō-ikai, not apart from it, therefore not in the pyramidal structure but above it (the pyramide was an Axis Mundi, the pyramidion ontop is not necessarily Heaven itself but the Holy of holies, which in japanese could ironically be rendered as Kamitsumiya). The pyramide is also misleading in the Shogun's case : several were Shinnō, and all the others were officially Kuge.

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Very informative but whats going on with the cadence of your speech? Very Charlie Chanish

Love this video. Awesome. But the music doesn't fit and is distracting. Constructive crit, not trying to be a jerk

I thought the undertakers, those who took care of the dead, were considered the lowest of the low. Or was that later?

Where did the priests and monks fit in the hierarchy of feudal Japan? I'm guessing somewhere between the samurai and the commoners but would like to know from someone more educated than me in this topic. Also, what about the various forms of artists, such as poets, actors, etc.? Were they considered artisans or merchants of some sort and thus treated accordingly or were they something else entirely?

I know about ashigura from Total war. Yari ashigura best unit!

So are the Shugo the same as Daimyo?

so what of these titles were held by clan and which were held by individual people

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You forgot the Eta...the untouchables below the merchants

My ancestor is upper class samurai and part of daimyo's family.

what are the sources for this video?

Music of Uesugi!

I think these classes are -although not fully fair- but a bit better than those of feudal europe

What about the Burakumin/Eta/Hinin?

In middle ages, the Lords and thier subordinates were on equal terms.(the Lord-subordinates terms is like Shogun and the suzerains, the suzerains and their retainer or domains.) The Lords assured the subordinates of the ownership of their territory . And instead the subordinates also served by the military service or cultivation. In other words, their relationship weren't conposed of the ranking but the give-and-take relationship. If the Lords should betray thier subordinates ,the relationship would collapse and a rebellion would brake out.Even the marchants and farmers prepared weapons for wars not only Samurais up to 1588. In 1588, Hideyohi Toyotomi forbited people to arm except for Samurai and separated Samurais and the others. Afterwards Tokugawa Shognate made this ranking. So there was not such a ranking before edo priod. Therefore the ranking is like this in Kamakura-priod. 1st Emperor 2nd Aristocrat,Shougun,Samurai,Ashigaru,Farmers,Fishermen,Artisans,Merchants

No Jizamurai? I guess they'd be somewhere between Ronin and Samurai.

Wasn't there a class below even merchants called Burakumin or by the prejorative "Eta"? They were kinda like the "Untouchable" class.

The author forgot to put the Eta under the merchants, and above the Samurai should be the Daimyo. The Daimyo were under the domination of the Shogunate, but not part of the Shogunate apparatus.

One thing that has me curious here, is where would have scholars, monks, priests, engineers, astronomers, and intellectuals in general fall in feudal Japan?

Are the Ronin under all the gerarcic position?

That Kamakura shogunate tree is still being used in today worlds like in mafia family tree

I'm learning this in 5th grade

It's kind of sad that people weren't able to centralize Japan as a country properly for a significant period of time until the Tokugawa government Edo period, and even then the Tokugawa gov't was not 100% properly centralized b/c there were still the provincial rulers (daimyo) from the civil war

Was there a samurai equivalent of a squire?

Why not mentioning about Daimyo rank sir?

Toyotomi Hideyoshi: "If you aren't a Samurai NOW you NEVER will be!" Emperor: "K."

What about the Eta?

Do you have the economical structure, did they pay tax to the Emperor to sustain his living?

What about Kampaku?

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Is shugo a daimyo? Or are they different.thnx for the reply.

No Eta?

Did samurai clans serving a shugo rule over parts of land, maybe in his name

i hope there would be a game where you could just live a life of a Ronin

What about the lowest of the low.....the ETA?

Oh shoot...yeah that is surprising that an entire labor class that upholds physical life is not at like rock bottom..who would have thought

I see alot of images from shogun 2

What about the eta

what about Ninja? , Warrior Monk?