Why Did Samurai Keep Changing and Reusing Names?

All about the politics of samurai names. Why did they change their names so much? Why did they keep reusing certain characters?

0:00 First Name Patterns
2:24 Importance of First Names
4:10 Family Names
7:05 Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Names, man couldn’t make up his mind

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[matthewct]

Even funnier, Hōjō Ujitsuna renamed his father Hōjō Soun after he died, so he can claim to be a Hojo

[akechijubeimitsuhide]

My favourite thing is the childhood names of Nobunaga's sons. They sound like he just named them after the first object he saw.
Concubine: "My lord you have a new son what should we name him"
Nobunaga, looking around frantically: "Uhhhh ... Tea Whisk?"

[arcticdino]

"What's your name again?"
"Which one? I have 7, I think"
"All of them"

[HeartOfArt]

I never thought you'd be Vietnamese. Since your entire content is about Japan and a little bit of Korea and China, I always thought you were Japanese 😂👌🏻🇯🇵

[tntsummers]

Funny timing, I just rewatched Extra Credit's series on the Sengoku period, and you had commented about how hard it must be for Japanese people to keep track of Medieval European names, because they reuse names and only differentiate by numbers.

[aknowleadge]

Here is something un-relate: The reason why in Vietnam there are so many people named “Nguyễn” is because their great grandparents choose to change their name so they wouldn’t get kill by their current ruler.

[Pacfic]

I never knew Yoshi is everywhere in the past, Nintendo must be bringing the name back.

[humo]

I’m binging on your channel. The humor, the history, what more could you ask for 🔥

[rachel_sj]

I’m simple, like the Fujiwara clan: I see a new Linfamy video (daughter) and I click on it (marry her into the Imperial Family)

[shaggythewriter]

Now I want a Vietnamese history series 😩

[devilmaycrydante]

One subscribe for a fellow Vietnamese. Was going through some Sengoku Jidai videos and wonder "Why they change their names like... all the time?" and stumble upon this one. Keep up the good work mate.

[Randomperson-szgq]

Me thinking about changing my nationality, changed my profession from doctor to engineer:
Where is my exp???

[idraote]

Not only didn't I major in Engineering/Law/Medicine... I had no intention to do that at all and went on to proudly boast my humanities MA and be unemployed for several years.
And today? Still studying humanities in my spare time and getting excited about it.

[madambutterfly]

That would explain why in certain anime everyone still refers to each other by either their their surnames

[ElhPudding]

In Samurai Warriors 2, encountering Hideyoshi in stages passing through early years (When he working under Nobunaga) his surname was Hashiba but after the stage where he fight Akechi his surname is Toyotomi. I dont remember if that ever happen if the player was Hideyoshi but I did found confusing at first since on the character select screen his surname is Toyotomi.
I always found that interesting about the game. And yeah I eventually found out that changing names was common in Japan.

[vanokuda]

Great video! Finally an explanation to a wild and wacky world of samurai names haha. Usually, in history books 1000 and 1 names of Ieyasu Tokugawa or someone important like him are never really truly explained so it's nice to finally be able to understand it!

[RickTheSnake]

the concept of gifting a piece of your name to someone or be gifted that way by a mentor or friend is definitely the apex of awesome.

[Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

2:10 It was like a *link to the past*
Is that a Zelda reference?

[LadyCoyKoi]

Japanese: We be tongue twister with our names.
Germans: That's cute.