In your honest opinion do you approve of this sentence from chapter 15? "Did you defeat her?" "No!" Jotaro exclaimed. "I let her live, she was only sixteen years old the same age as I was at the time, but she did make a promise that she will return and get revenge on my Sensei and I."

Interesting but AI renderings not art at all. And depending who is coding and why the images can support styrotypes and racism. I rather look at real created by humans.

Some scenes are indeed really dark, and it's hard to see anything unless you watch it in complete darkness.

I hope for a season 2, even though season 1 covers the book, with the same writing style, direction & what we know of history, they can do it.

全体的に画面が暗いのが気になった。 日本の空はもっと青いよ。 大阪の町については、CGを馴染ませるために色調落としてるのかな？ 最近のファンタジーやSFは、みんな画面が暗くて、つまらない。 伊豆の風景も植生や山の高さが日本に見えない。 ロケ地がカナダだって聞いてから、カナダにしか見えなくなった。

Your English pronunciation is particularly good. Gambare

EVERYONE's history is brutal. I wasn't at all bothered by the brutality.

I like that a Japanese guy is doing Japanese History SUBBED!!!

Excellent video on William Adams I found it very interesting, keep up the good work.

I appreciate the effort you put into this video. It was very interesting.

I attempted to delve deeper into the history of William Adams from a Japanese perspective. Do you know about William Adams (Miura Anjin)? It would be interesting to hear comments or shares about how William Adams is perceived and studied outside of Japan. Thank you for your cooperation.😀Thank you.

What about the script? I found the language somewhat overly 'direct' and not at all what I find as a key part of japanese culture which is more subtle. Is this style common in Japanese films? I wonder what your opinion is on this.

お疲れ様です!

I think there is a difference when we watch the way western culture interprets the samurai as a whole. They view it thru their own experience and culture, not thru the Japanese point of view. That is why there is breath of fresh air when we watch a film about that era from Japanese point of view (at least that's what I think this show portrays).

The movie makes me study Japan history deeper.

I paused on the Grave Stone Memorial. So did most Japanese People not know this "specific part of their history" until the British put the Memorial there in 1948? or was Adams well known before?

I've always thought "Well Put Together" TV series or Movies are the best way to bridge differences in Cultures. I started to realize this at an early age (8 years old or so) because I was and still am an Avid Video Game player and most Video Games in the 1980s and 1990s (being of Eastern Origins) had a lot of Japanese/Eastern Cultural "differences" I observed in Said Video Games. This definitely gave me More Insight into other Cultures, and to this day certain TV shows, Movies and Video games still do the same thing.

Wasn't slavery wide-spread in Japan, until the Taikō abolished it? Would the Portugese buying Japanese slaves be special, because they took them abroad? Seems like kind of a double standard to bring that up, as if it highlights the especially heinous nature of the foreigners. They couldn't have been bought, if they weren't being sold. Both are saddening, but such was history, worldwide. I think the show demonstrates why it was justified to cut off foreign influence from Japan perfectly well, even without that. It's also important to take note, that, while it's a subsediary of Disney, this was produced by FX. They deserve all the praise. Walt Disney Studios didn't make it, The Walt Disney Company just owns it. I'm happy to see Japanese people mostly enjoying the series, even if it's not perfect. I hope this brings more international collaboration on more culture-specific stories, instead of people saying only that one culture is allowed to tell its own stories, as that leads to complacency, and often propaganda. We need both sides to tell a whole story. Thank you for the video, it was very interesting, and you put a lot of effort into it!

A Series Worthy of the Japanese Consciousness. "The Ghost of Tsushima" should be next in the pipeline.

I loved the fact that the show was mostly in Japanese, it adds another layer of authenticity to it which you don't get in shows where everyone is speaking English and the viewer is left to imagine the actors are speaking German or Spanish or Japanese etc etc.

This is not from Disney. This is FX. Disney would never be able to pull something like this off. They are utterly incompetent.

Thank you for the time stamps <3

The use of shields by samurai is present in documents and artwork from centuries of feudal history, including from the Sengoku period (which is the setting for the TV series "Shogun"). There are two types of samurai shield: tate (盾) and tedate (手盾). Both were used on the battlefield during the Sengoku period and continued to be taught as part of military training during the Edo period. Tate is a "pavise" or standing shield, propped on the ground to cover samurai archers against enemy arrows. During the Sengoku period, this was modified for ashigaru gunners as cover from enemy bullets. Tedate is a hand-held shield. This was a much smaller, lighter shield and was used by both samurai cavalry and samurai infantry. The reason why hand-held shields were not frequently used on the battlefield by samurai was because of the primary weapons they used. On the battlefield, a samurai cavalryman's main weapon was the yumi, while a samurai infantryman's main weapon (other than the bow) for a long time was the naginata, then by the Sengoku period was the yari. All these main weapons require the use of two hands, making a shield impractical during an assault. Those few samurai infantrymen who were only equipped with regular swords on the battlefield would use tedate (this didn't apply to elite squads that fought with nodachi, which are not regular swords). Samurai cavalry squadrons would also have tedate brought to them if they were preparing to chase and cut down enemy horse archers. Unfortunately, cinematic depictions of samurai on the battlefield omit these few instances of hand-held shield use, perhaps because it makes the popular image of samurai look less exciting.

Katanas are welded with two hands, and the yuroi is already a shield not just an armour. It's just plain and simple.

Not all western knights used shields either. When plate armor became prolific, the shield became redundant. (Just look at any modern HEMA match where they're wearing full plate. They're seriously bashing each other with swords, but their personal plate armor is more than adequate to stop slashes and stabs.)The same could be said of Japanese warriors as well. They did use shields early in Japanese history. But when your primary weapon is actually a two-handed weapon such as a bow or spear or some kind of naginata (a katana was actually a back-up weapon) AND your personal armor is already pretty much immune to sword slashes, what's the point behind carrying a shield? To be fair, though, Japanese tactics with the matchlock gun did employ large shields that could be propped up on the ground and used as cover to fire behind.

The same people who don't understand why Samurai didn't use shields are the same people who dont understand why during the era of muskets they would use group formations. Or why people soldiers would wear bright colors. Ignorant people.

dude you need to learn to speak better english or hire a god damn ai to speak for you, this is trash

I appreciate this viewpoint. Im not a bot btw.

In this video, we've leaned a bit more towards entertainment. We've explored the topic of samurai shields. If you have any insights or knowledge to share, please don't hesitate to leave a comment.🤗🛡

And I thought Sengoku Basara was the most accurate depiction of Japanese history 🤔

It's a very good, and well done show.

amazing show

A simple situation where literature might say things such "flowers are beautiful because they scatter/fall" - but you can't say this to people that are poor or struggling It's like if a politician told the public to "just carry and die for the cross for Jesus" if they are suffering. It wouldn't be considered a compliment or good poetry; it'd be considered rude and threatening.

Read the book!!!!

It's crazy how cultural exchange and globalization goes today in art and entertainment, we have this American series that are set in sengoku period, and then there is manga and anime like Vinland Saga set in European middle ages or Attack or Titan, besides Attack on Titan is set in a fantastic world it has mostly main characters of western characteristics, of course there are Asian and African people but that world is mostly westernish dominated. I like all these productions btw.

Mr. Kawakatsu is a very stupid politician. The Japanese people will not tolerate a foolish politician like him quoting the poem of the sublime Hosokawa Garasha. Mr. Kawakatsu is a puppet of the Chinese Communist Party.

The Hosokawa family should be more angry at the way Tadaoki and Garasha are being slandered on the show. He is portrayed as a low class brute. She is portrayed as an ungrateful, self pitying adulteress. Shameful.

@3:36 '... was one of the great generals who served the shoguns Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.' Neither Nobunaga nor Hideyoshi were shoguns. Nobunaga's highest rank whilst alive was udaijin (Minister of the Right). Hideyoshi attained the rank kanpaku (emperor's regent, and this rank was higher than shogun) and later taiko (retired regent), which was the reserve of the aristocratic Fujiwara clan for several centuries. Hideyoshi strong armed the Konoe clan, one of the five main Fujiwara branches, to adopt him so that he could attain this rank. Only Ieyasu attained shogun and he did not demand kanpaku, instead letting the Fujiwaras resume holding the role, most likely as a diplomatic move to gain their support and not make a stink that he was not truly of Minamoto lineage.

Related to the drama "General," there has been some sad news. Descendants of Toda Mariko (real name: Hosokawa Garasha) are furious. Through this video, please feel the pulse of Japan today. You may gain insights into Japanese culture and temperament.🤔

In relation to shogun, something like this is happening in Japan.😂

shogun was a great adaptation. was the source any good?... was well written.... but basically just retold historical facts with a white boy thrown in the mix. which was necessary for their intended audience... is it accurate? no. was the culture represented well? exploited for sure but it feels like it was made out of love. This adaptation takes the homage of the story further. it is a good starting point for people interested in Japan... like memories of the geisha. objectively ridiculous stereotype of Japan, BUT it was to bring that magic and wonder of that era of Japan. ま〜ま〜でしたね。。。　 its not the best representation of Japan but it doesn't mean it should've have been made,. we just need more Japanese Stories like this. I recommend watching any jidaigeki (period drama) for fans of this show

Again, loved the video. Another thing I thought I would point out is what the book did amazingly that I think the first miniseries did, but not nearly as well (but still haven't seen the new one.) The book was an amazing exploration of cultural relativism. Of course, most of the readers were going to be from a European background. Clavell does a masterful job showing that things that we (medieval Europeans, and by extension their cultural descendants) might consider bizarre or barbaric, from the perspective of them (late medieval Japanese) would seem normal and even honorable. Things that we think of as normal, to them might seem odd, disgusting, or dishonorable. He looked at Japanese culture from the era with a sympathetic and even reverential eye. (This is especially remarkable when you consider that he was a prisoner in the notorious Changi POW camp and was almost starved to death - read his short, first book in the series, King Rat.) All of his books in the Asian Saga do this to a great extent, but Shogun does it best. Keep in mind, a large chunk of his audience (Australians and Americans, over the age of 45 in 1975), probably still had some bitter memories and resentments, and probably knew little nothing about Japanese history. I'm sure there were authors before him that did this relative perspectives, but I don't know of a book before it, with such a broad reach that did this. The idea of "cultural relativism" I think was still a rather new thing. Sure, people may have given it lip service, but I don't think people really believed it, on that level. They (and most people still) think, "Yeah, sure, blah, blah blah - but we're right and they're wrong.") But Clavell opened my eyes and vividly showed me that two cultures could look at an issue and come to completely opposite conclusions, and they can both be equally right from the perspective of their culture and have no idea why the other thought that way. I may still disagree with them, but there is a logic and history of why they feel that way, even our enemies. Sure, Clavell gets some aspects of Japanese history and culture wrong - historical fiction authors make these mistakes all the time, even about their own culture. But the point of fiction is not getting all the facts right but to get to a deeper truth. And I don't understand the logic behind the name changes when it is soooo clear to whom he is referring - if you're familiar with that time period, I can see how that might be a little jarring. But it is still an amazing book that changed how many of us look at cultures different than our own. It is also massively entertaining listening to the inner monologues of all the different people and their motives and objectives and plans - something that doesn't come across as well on TV. I highly recommend the book. The whole series is interesting, but the crown jewel is Shogun. I think it is perhaps the most important book ever written analyzing what happens when two cultures that don't understand each other collide. That is really what his book was about - the political intrigue, historical tidbits, and romance were just there to serve that purpose. Unfortunately, the mini-series (at least the first one) turned that around and focused on those other aspects. I still loved the first mini-series (though I know it had flaws), but having read the book, I certainly missed the deepest, most timeless, and most important point that Clavell was trying to make.

アンナ・サワイはぶっちゃけあんまり日本人に見えない。外人がイメージする日本人って感じ。 顔にしても喋り方にしても日本人っぽくない。 絶対にいない顔ではないけど他の国の血が混じってるって紹介されたら「ああやっぱりな」って思う感じ

Japan had developed a rich spiritual culture during the Jomon period.🥰

In this video, I focused on O-Kiku from the Shogun's era and briefly summarized the real-life female society of that time. Feel free to comment if you have any insights or knowledge to share!😀

I do not believe I have ever seen a film with Sanada-san where I did not enjoy his performance. I enjoy historical accuracy more than many, as I have had massive interest in world socioeconomic/cultural history since I was young. I enjoy seeing the dedication given by all of the actors of Shogun.

To understand "将軍 - Shogun,'' you should know the word "下剋上 - gekokujo.'' This is a social trend that was accepted and practiced during the turbulent era of the Sengoku period(Warring States period 1467-until the late 16th century), in which powerful people in lower positions and social status overshadowed those in higher ranks to seize power. The situation during the Sengoku period was harsh, where a foolish lord would quickly lose his territory, so such lords were exiled or killed. If they don't do this, they won't be able to protect the territory, livelihoods, and lives of the people, so I think it happened naturally. This trend had almost disappeared by the time of Hideyoshi, when the war had calmed down, but it was because this trend remained that Ieyasu was able to take over the country, which was the model for Toranaga, and was recognized by those around him. Of course, this became impossible in the next peaceful era (Edo period 1603-1867), when social classes were fixed. Furthermore, the reason why Ieyasu was able to take over the country was the difference in the temperament of his vassals and Hideyoshi's failure to succeed his successor. As Hideyoshi was an "upstart," he had no reliable and loyal old vassals. When Hideyoshi took control of the country, his vassals were also promoted to daimyo(feudal lord) status, but an unstable situation arose in which the feudal lords who were vassals were set against each other, with supporters legal wife and real mother. In addition, although it was an unfortunate turn of events, his successor, his son Hideyori, was young and the coalition system supported by powerful daimyo from various regions was only a formality, so there were many opportunities for Ieyasu to take advantage of this. Originally, Hideyoshi fought with Ieyasu and somehow won the whole country, where Hideyoshi was the supreme power. In the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute (1584), which were siege warfares over wide areas, the smaller number Ieyasu side skillfully concentrated its forces and won each battle. However, in the end, they succumbed to Hideyoshi side, which tried to negotiate peace through diplomatic tactics. Because of this past, Ieyasu had always kept his ambition to take over the country hidden in his heart. After Hideyoshi died(1598), it was inevitable that Ieyasu would take over the country. William Adams, the model for John Blackthorne, met Ieyasu in 1600, and after the cruicial battle(the Battle of Sekigahara (1600)), he was welcomed as an aide and advisor to make use of his knowledge and experience, and was made a hatamoto(direct vassal of the shogun) and had wife and children. However, after Ieyasu's death(1616), he was not liked by the second Shogun Hidetada and the Shogunate, and died in misfortune(1620). Stories based on historical facts like this are unexciting and uninteresting to Westerners, so novels are made up of stories.

Honestly, I have mixed feelings about the show. Anjin is a somewhat treacherous moron and Mariko is moody and angsty.

Pros just seeing everything in HD the costumes and make up so perfect & pristine. Pro beautifully produced and historically matches the era. Pro: the actors are just Brilliant Pro:when on book the story is beautifully adapted... But I'm sorry some of the changes are far too big - it's not just for time - like Naga's death... For what? Also making him an inexperienced brat... Ok Naga was a bit "jump the gun" but Lord T actually got a kick out of him, loved him, and enjoyed his co.mpany - much more than his eldest son who had the sense of humor of a stick. He talks about it to himself how his elder son loves nothing but his wife and children, has not humor , "he's like me" he says to himself.. "no " he corrects himself" I like to hunt& laugh & pillow & drink saki, he cares for some people & they make him laugh like Kiri & Naga & the Anjin San - who he treats with great honor & respect he sees an equal. Also musing he absolutely knew that Mariko & Blackthorne pillowed, was not upset about it, Buntaro was thought dead... He even considered taking out Buntaro to he Blackthorne safe...

Con) cutting Anjin San's seppuku scene, it's not only a change in him, it's a change how Toranaga's court SEES HIM, as reborn, a samurai willing to die with honor so not to have to be dishonored by the deaths of so many. Even Fuji(ko) starts so some around and honors him as a Samuel and master of the house. Con) the walk to Yedo where Mariko & Blackthorne really get down to living each other. It was never a hook up, it was a deep love that he carried with him even after her death