Rise of Hideyoshi - Japanese Sengoku Jidai DOCUMENTARY

Kings and Generals animated historical series on the history of Japan continues with a new series on Sengoku Jidai, as we start with the episode describing early campaigns of Oda Nobunaga and
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, as we describe the rise of Hideyoshi and the battles of Okehazama, Inabayama, Kanegasaki, Nagashima, Tottori and Takamatsu.

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00:00 Intro
01:46 Hideyoshi's early years
04:05 Battle of Okehazama 1560
05:08 The Mino campaign
07:26 Siege of Inabayama 1567
09:06 Nobunaga's great ambition
10:21 Siege of Kanegasaki 1570
11:05 Second siege of Nagashima 1573
12:08 The expansion continues
13:27 The Chugoku campaign
16:54 Siege of Tottori 1581
17:49 The campaign continues
18:21 Siege of Takamatsu 1582
19:13 The fall of Nobunaga

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[stevewarwick]

From mere foot soldier to 'Taiko' and one of the 3 great unifiers of Japan...a truly fascinating story, one of both luck and fate.

[bvbxiong]

Nobunaga Oda was a unique man for the times. As we saw, if Hideyoshi didn't serve Nobunaga, he would have likely never became anything. The Imagawa, like nearly every other daimyo of the time, saw no worth in the peasant class. Nobunaga; however, was different. He was not beholden to tradition. He used to be called the "fool of Owari" because he did and said whatever he wanted, oftentimes outlandishly, in contrary to Japanese culture. He was "rude" and "unceremonious" at his father's funeral, which ended with the ritual suicide of one of his guardians in protest. However, Nobunaga saw Hideyoshi's talents, not his class, and elevated him...allowing him to accomplish great deeds.

[minoru-kk]

There is a legend that when Hideyoshi first served Nobunaga, he was a sandal bearer. This was first recorded in the late 18th century and is therefore unreliable. However, its a useful anecdote to emphasize that Hideyoshi initially served the Oda clan as a private servant, not a samurai, and then rose to power with astonishing speed

[tribecalledmason]

I love the way they managed to conjure up documents from absolutely nowhere that made Hideyoshi eligible for the name Toyotomi which gave him more legitimacy as a ruler. His name was 'Hashiba' beforehand.

[mhadygunawan]

I love the bold and clear colours for the map. Hideyoshi story is really fascinating

[faenethlorhalien]

Thank you for the great video.
Just imagine how terrible life must have been back then in Japan, whether you were a peasant, a fighter or even a noble. War and war and war ...

[spacemarine]

I am loving this new animation style; more hi-def and the hexagon cards are a nice twist. Keep this KAG!

[Schizz]

i swear, K&G somehow always makes a video on a piece of historical content which i have interests in at the time. Legit just watched a 1 hour video the other day about the three unifiers of Japan (Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Tokugawa), and the Varna video came out an hour after i watched a History Marche vid on the same battle.

[lowkeysalmon]

Thank you Kings and Generals. I've been waiting for more japanese history and you've dropped this vid. Hope to see more.

[socratesii]

From farmer to Ruler of Japan, that's Hideyoshi

[Rouge_GamingYT]

As someone who played Samarai Warriors, I’ve been waiting for a video like this

[windowcatproductions]

We are really enjoying these samurai videos!! They are giving us lots of ideas for are lego samurai stop motions!! Keep up the great work!! 😸😸

[Nordsan]

This channel's quality is getting crazy, I love the maps, they are so pretty and informational, all the special effects, the little info cards, the figures and so on. I have been watching for a few years now, and it is amazing to see how far this channel has come!

[brokenbridge]

This was a good idea for a video series. Nicely done KNG.

[ArionRDAW]

For those interested in a novelization of Hideyoshi's life and career similar in the style of Romance of Three Kingdoms, search for Eiji Yoshikawa's novel 'Taiko'. The author also wrote Musashi, a dramatized account of the famous swordsman.

[AngryMarine-ilej]

I read where that he left Owari Province at the age of 7 after his father died and entered the service of Matsushita Yukitsuna. A local lord (i.e. daimyo) of the Imagawa clan, not Imagawa Yoshimoto himself. When returned to Owari province at 21, then entered the service of the Oda clan as an ashigaru before becoming Nobunaga's 'sandal bearer'. It was after the Battle of Okehazama that he was elevated to that position.

[oneshotme]

I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[seanengelsen]

Interesting that this series starts with Hideyoshi even though the consensus for the timeline of the sengoku jidai range from the Onin war in 1467 to the siege and fall of Osaka castle in 1615. But that is a really long and tumultuous time period with so much detail so it can be forgiven.

[Emmanuel-rnvj]

The new map quality is BEAUTIFUL!!! I love it

[nampham]

On learning about the war era of Japan, please note that the Bushido code has not been invented yet. The code was invented by the Edo shogunate in order to achieve political stability and settlement among Samurais because they were now the rulers, not the warriors anymore. 

Before that, Samurais were much more like Yakuza and mafias; strong bond of family but always working for themselves at the bottom of their hearts, always waiting for the moment to betray and push their way to the top.

Therefore, you will see many cases in which a Samurai abandons a family and starts serving another one. This was considered normal in the war era. People back then pretty much evaluated one another by their actual skills and political charisma instead of blindly being loyal to one family, except in the case their ancestors have already served that family for generations.

The most typical example is Tokugawa Hideyasu himself, who united the nation and started Edo Shogunate. He was originally a small warlord under the Imagawa family but later betrayed them and joined the Oda army.