Pre-Samurai Warriors - Kofun/Yayoi Era, Japanese Iron Age

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What warriors did Japan have when Rome was a military power in the west? A presentation on Iron age warriors in Japan and their weapons, armour and battle.

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A Roman legion was the largest unit of the Roman army, consisting of centuries as the basic units.
For most of the Roman Imperial period, the legions formed the Roman army's elite heavy infantry, recruited exclusively from Roman citizens, while the remainder of the army consisted of auxiliaries, who provided additional infantry and the vast majority of the Roman army's cavalry.
A legion consisted of several cohorts of heavy infantry known as legionaries. It was almost always accompanied by one or more attached units of auxiliaries, who were not Roman citizens and provided cavalry, ranged troops and skirmishers to complement the legion's heavy infantry.
From the time of Gaius Marius onwards, legionaries received 225 denarii a year; this basic rate remained unchanged until Domitian, who increased it to 300 denarii. The soldiers did not receive all the money in cash, as the state deducted a clothing and food tax from their pay. To this wage, a legionary on active campaign would hope to add the booty of war. Slaves could also be claimed from the prisoners of war and divided amongst the legion for later sale, which would bring in a sizeable supplement to their regular pay.
All legionary soldiers would also receive a praemia on the completion of their term of service: a sizeable sum of money and/or a plot of good farmland; farmland given to veterans often helped in establishing control of the frontier regions and over rebellious provinces.

Samurai were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.
In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi or buke.
By the end of the 12th century, samurai became almost entirely synonymous with bushi, and the word was closely associated with the middle and upper echelons of the warrior class. The samurai were usually associated with a clan and their lord, and were trained as officers in military tactics and grand strategy. While the samurai numbered less than 10% of then Japan's population, their teachings can still be found today in both everyday life and in modern Japanese martial arts.
As aristocrats for centuries, samurai developed their own cultures that influenced Japanese culture as a whole. The culture associated with the samurai such as the tea ceremony, monochrome ink painting, rock gardens and poetry were adopted by warrior patrons throughout the centuries 1200–1600. These practices were adapted from the Chinese arts.
In general, samurai, aristocrats, and priests had a very high literacy rate in kanji. Recent studies have shown that literacy in kanji among other groups in society was somewhat higher than previously understood.
Some samurai had buke bunko, or "warrior library", a personal library that held texts on strategy, the science of warfare, and other documents that would have proved useful during the warring era of feudal Japan. One such library held 20,000 volumes. The upper class had Kuge bunko, or "family libraries", that held classics, Buddhist sacred texts, family histories, as well as genealogical records.
A samurai was usually named by combining one kanji from his father or grandfather and one new kanji. Samurai normally used only a small part of their total name.

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I for one would like to see more on this era.

Youngimperialist
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Awesome video! Please feel free to continue with videos on the pre-Samurai eras! Even the Jomon Cultures appear interesting as little of them as I have an understanding of. I have heard a 'Final Jomon Culture' referenced at about 325BC, around the death of Alexander the Great.

Dominator
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Hey Metatron how about a discussion of events where samurai fought against foreign forces, such as the Mongol invasion, invasion of Korea (fighting against Chosun/Ming forces), fighting Spaniards in Philippines, and fighting in Thailand as mercenaries?

bloodndestroy
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Wow, another excellent video on Japanese history and I really enjoyed it. You have inspired me to study Japanese History, Martial Arts, Bushido etc all thanks to your videos. Thank you very much and I look forward to your Date Masamune documentary. Keep up the great work Metatron!

luchadorelmachomalo
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Last time I was this early there were people who weren't demonetized on youtube.

wtffy
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Hey Metatron, could you please do a video on military style archery in Japan and how it differs from Kyudo? I've done a little research and found some interesting differences but with your knowledge of Japanese I'm sure you could find out much more than I could!

NinjaAttorneyAtLaw
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All right Metatron, consider me as a new member of your Patreon! I was planning already to join because I really wanna watch your documentaries, but now that you put in also Sengoku Jidai, well...I'm definitely coming! I'm eager to see what you have to tell about Date Masamune, although my favourite Sengoku Jidai Daimyo was, and still is, Uesugi Kenshin! :D

Glegionar
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Great video. You should check with Chinese and Korea histories and how they affected Japan's armor and weapons patterns in trade and warfare.

Diebulfrog
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So glad to here that you're doing a video on Oda Nobunaga. So glad that we agree that he's the greatest of all daimyō in history.

yoya.
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Metatron, you productions values continue to improve! Such amazing content my friend, congratulations!

FelipeWalker
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This was a amazing video I am very happy as a korean that you know the three kingdoms and also you indeed said baekjae correctly

patrickstar
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Excellent video. I hope we see more content like this in the future. I absolutely love antiquity era east Asian history. I hope you do more videos on things like the 3 Kingdoms of Korea Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje, and the Gaya confederacy.

oddjars
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Yayoi is prehistory, the later part of the Kofun (Tomb) phase also known as the Yamato Period is recorded history.

lincolnhaldorsen
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I love your videos, but the last 3-4 ones I wasn't really interested in, but this new video is exactly why I subscribed to you awesome channel!

Imperator_Chrysalis
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Metatron, you should do a video on Chinese and Korean armour of the same period, so we can see how they influence one another

lamhahaha
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Awesome, I was looking for more information on this stuff, it's actually surprisingly hard to research if you can't read Japanese and/or don't have access to an academic library with lots of PRJs.

kidthorazine
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Tanko armor, huh? I bet it offers good protection but encumbers more than thiefo armor.

madao
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gather around kids, metatron is giving a history lesson 🙌

seba
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I was looking for exactly this ! Thank you so much

JeanOlaf
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You'd make a great japanese voice actor. Your pronounciation sounds a lot cleaner and clearer than most of the japanese people I came to know

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