What did a Samurai Battlefield Look Like?

What would the atmosphere of an iconic Sengoku Jidai Samurai battlefield have been like?

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Classical art, which in most cases can be considered public domain.
Art from Osprey Publications.
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#Samurai #History #Japan

[totalwar]

As the Otomo intro says when using Tanegashima: 'weapons that kill without honour, but bring victory. Victory, however, brings honour...'

[gabrieldeoliveira]

“My lord, a glorious victory will soon be your’s!”

[mikotagayuna]

Real samurai battles involve the mandatory screaming of the name of one's sword technique followed by the sudden appearance of Kanji characters in mid-air and accentuated by the copious squirting of pressurized blood.

[akechijubeimitsuhide]

Nobunaga: "so anyway I started blasting"

[saidtoshimaru]

I think one of the most brutal (and definitely not-honorable) aspects of samurai warfare was the follow-up of the battle when the defeated were hunted down and massacred for their heads or equipment, something that lasted for days and even weeks. That must been just a terrifying experience to go through.

[Jon.A.Scholt]

Suicide by "Jumping from horse at full gallup with sword between your teeth" is about the craziest and most badass thing I can think of.

[goldensmurf]

On behalf of the Shokuho team and of course myself, we are extremely grateful for the shoutout you gave us on your video! The support we have received from your audience and the community in general has been outstanding and we are forever grateful. We shall strive to make a historically accurate, yet engaging Sengoku Jidai mod that will give the players a riveting gameplay experience, narrative storyline, and above everything else to provide the player with a deep exploration of feudal japan during one of its most tumultuous eras. Again, thank you for the amazing shoutout!

[FinnishDragon]

We should remember that samurai commanders usually knew Sun Tzu´s Art of War very well. The Art of War also says that "All Warfare is based on deception". I think it could be an interesting idea to make an episode between Sun Tzu´s Art of War and Samurai warfare since educated Japanese people knew the Art of War since 7th century.

[javierperez-xomr]

War is everything but glorious and that "smell of victory" is shit from corpses

[SusCalvin]

There is a lot of reasons Oda Nobunaga can make a good antagonist in a semi-fictional story. He is a man ruthlessly crushing independent temples and rivals when he needs to.

[jt]

Yea video on ranks within the samurai/ashigaru classes,

[roninroshi]

Living in Japan we visit battlefields and they continue to have a very eerie feeling! If I take photos at night with a flash ‘kodama’ spheres as they are sometimes known are everywhere moving to different positions if I shoot really rapidly! Great channel and info…Thanks…ありがとうございました！

[vaarkobke]

15:00 not to mention that his irl inspiration was the head of an artillery school and only charged after they ran out of ammo lol

[eduardogutierrez]

In The Revenge of the Sith, Obi wan had to resort to a gun to defeat General Griveous. That means that Jedi knights are willing to use weapons other than their light sabers to achieve their goals.

[tylermartin]

What an incredible experience these battles must have been. The fearlessness of historical warriors never ceases to amaze me.

[akemisayaka]

Basically every warrior across history outside beginning of record history were practical and not stupid and fought to win even knights and Samurai.

[derekk.]

The point when the bloody meat grinder starts is when the honor duels happen. After the initial clash people are tired and trying to recover wounded and get back in formation and as it starts to get dark honor duels between individuals are much more practical and likely.

[randovids]

Duels probably happened during the skirmishing part of the battle, which can last quite a while before either army commits to a fight.

[thesnowfox]

"Treachery! The enemy army has meant to ambush us!"

[davidwasilewski]

The ancient Greeks learned that shoving up close together, shoulder to shoulder, several ranks deep with long spears (later pikes) meant you could push over and through the enemies line of battle won you the battle more often than not. So I suspect, even allowing cultural differences, the modern image we have of swirling multiple ‘one on one’ combats are highly inaccurate. In the later period, after cannons were introduced, then deep ranks of troops wouldn’t have been feasible of course but that was the beginning of the end for the samurai anyway.