In 1543, a storm-battered junk carrying a few Portuguese traders drifted to Tanegashima, a small island south of Japan. The island’s 15-year-old lord watched them fire their strange iron sticks, bought both guns, and told his swordsmith to make more. Within a generation, guns were deciding Japan’s biggest battles.

So where does the sword-worshipping samurai who scorns guns come from? This is the story of how samurai really fought, how Japan fell for guns, sponge cake, bread and playing cards from the “southern barbarians”, why Japan never really gave up the gun, and how the romantic samurai code was written by men who never fought, explained to the West in a book written in English, and finished off by Hollywood.

Chapters
00:00 Tanegashima, 1543
01:50 Japan at war with itself
03:00 What samurai really fought with
03:55 The screw
04:57 Guns everywhere
05:31 The black ships
06:35 Missionaries and saltpetre
07:29 Cake, cards and pantaloons
08:38 Nagashino, 1575
09:51 Hideyoshi and the sword hunt
11:06 Korea
11:47 William Adams and Sekigahara
13:05 Closing the doors
14:43 Did Japan give up the gun?
16:09 Samurai with nothing to fight
17:56 Bushido, written in English
19:01 Black ships, again
20:52 The last samurai
21:58 A war over bullets
22:45 Shiroyama
23:27 Tanegashima today

A note on the evidence
Nobody counted Japan’s guns: the famous “300,000 guns” goes back to a 16th-century adventurer’s hearsay. The story of the smith’s daughter Wakasa is a family legend, the gunfire that “made” Kobayakawa switch sides at Sekigahara is probably a later addition, and Saigo’s widow’s reaction to his statue is a family anecdote. Where the video tells a story like these, it says so.

Sources
– Nanpo Bunshi, “Teppoki” (1606), the Tanegashima family’s record of the gun
– Ota Gyuichi, “Shincho koki”, the chronicle of Oda Nobunaga
– Paul Varley, “Oda Nobunaga, Guns, and Early Modern Warfare in Japan” (2007)
– Suzuki Masaya, “Katana to kubi-tori” (2000) and “Teppo to Nihonjin” (1997); Thomas D. Conlan, “State of War” (2003)
– C. R. Boxer, “The Great Ship from Amacon” (1959); Olof G. Lidin, “Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan” (2002)
– Hirao Yoshimitsu et al., lead-isotope studies of Sengoku-period bullets
– Fujiki Hisashi, “Katanagari” (2005); David L. Howell, “The Social Life of Firearms in Tokugawa Japan” (2009)
– Tamara Enomoto, “Giving Up the Gun? Overcoming Myths about Japanese Sword-Hunting and Firearms Control” (2018)
– Noel Perrin, “Giving Up the Gun” (1979), the book behind the myth
– Beatrice Bodart-Bailey, “The Dog Shogun” (2006)
– Yamamoto Tsunetomo, “Hagakure”, tr. William Scott Wilson (1979); Miyamoto Musashi, “The Book of Five Rings” (1645)
– Nitobe Inazo, “Bushido: The Soul of Japan” (1900); Basil Hall Chamberlain, “The Invention of a New Religion” (1912)
– Oleg Benesch, “Inventing the Way of the Samurai” (2014)
– F. L. Hawks, “Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan” (1856)
– JAXA (Tanegashima Space Center); Nishinoomote City (the Tanegashima gun festival); Wikipedia (English and Japanese)

Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/):
“Stormfront”, “Eastminster”, “Ishikari Lore”, “Heroic Age”, “Guzheng City”, “Mountain Emperor”, “Unanswered Questions”, “Sneaky Snitch”, “Scheming Weasel (faster version)”, “Kawai Kitsune”, “The Builder”, “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys”, “Captain Scurvy”, “Investigations”, “Eastern Thought”, “Pixel Peeker Polka – faster”, “Asian Drums”, “Night Vigil”, “Lamentation”, “Senbazuru”, “Folk Round”, “Pippin the Hunchback”, “Hidden Agenda”, “Local Forecast – Elevator”, “Teller of the Tales”, “Americana”, “Clash Defiant”, “Long Road Ahead”, “Comic Plodding”, “Faceoff”, “Hitman”, “Dreams Become Real”.

Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl) and Freesound contributors (CC0).
Maps: Natural Earth (public domain); Global Map Japan (GSI); (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
Voices: Kokoro-82M (Apache 2.0).

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The Fall of Constantinople in 1453 marked the final hours of a dying empire. Witness the end of the Roman legacy in the East.

The video details the final hours of the Byzantine Empire before its collapse. We move from the somber religious ceremonies inside the grand churches to the terrifying reality of cannons being readied outside the city walls. It is a slow, methodical look at the pressure building against the last Roman inhabitants as they face an inevitable end.

This is a narrative of the siege itself, covering the storming of the fortifications and the collapse of defenses that had stood for centuries. It captures the tension of the soldiers and the atmosphere of a civilization bracing for its final moments in 1453. If you appreciate detailed medieval history told as a single, uninterrupted story, this is built for you.

If you find something calming in these long histories, consider subscribing, and let me know in the comments which empire you would like to hear told next.

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The Jesuit Missions : A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness
by Thomas Guthrie Marquis (1864-1936)

These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion.. This volume, as suggested in the title, folows the Jesuit missionaries through North America as they attempt, with little success, to convert the natives of the new world. (Summary by Esther)

Total running time: 3:09:21

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Victorian era clothing was mostly moleskin, fustian and calico, and the one good suit a poor household owned spent most of each …

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