石和川中島合戦絵巻2002 isawa2002 samurai battle reenactment

[MapleAtk]

...They should send this over to America. :D

I mean we got Airsoft games, y not this? :D

[EpikCyAnid]

LOL nationalists of japan must have wet dreams over these rofl very cool though.

[EddisonTheGreat]

way cooler than union and confederate uniforms.

[Conscript69]

Yari Ashigaru, CHARGE!!!

[truongkahp]

@Conscript69 too much Shogun 2 Total War for you haha

[teagm003]

In a battle, Samurai would call out their name and rank, when they were heard by or heard a name or rank they wished to fight, they would challenge the other. They then fought 1 - 1. I agree with Xiphos151, it is indeed sad to see the Samurai reduced to this. This is a misleading video, it nurtures people minds into think the Samurai were nothing more than dishonourable foot soldiers. Just wrong.

[Ganryuu]

@teagm003 I hate to tell you, but if you really think that, you have no idea what you're talking about.

[teagm003]

@Ganryuu Go read old scrolls and loads of web pages, and then listen to masters of Ken-Jutsu and Jiu-Jitsu. That's how they all tell it.

[Ganryuu]

@teagm003 I think you watch too much anime or manga..

During the 1500's many daimyo started to use rifles and such. Marksmanship with rifle became just as important as with bow and arrow. You have a very idealistic view of samurai who rarely use katana in battle anyway.

Typically they use spear and bow. Can you read old style Japanese? I don't really think so. It's so hard even for modern Japanese. At any rate, your view of Samurai is kind of correct after Sekigahara.

[teagm003]

@Ganryuu I dont watch anime, or read manga.

Yeah, the 1500's, near the end of the Samurai era.

The video is almost like say in that a whole cup of tea is very sweet, like the bottom sip, because any sugar you had has sunk, even though the main part of the tea wasn't sweet. Bad metaphor, but meh.

When I think of Samurai, I think of them 'in their prime'. And yes, I know Samurai mainly used Naginata and bow.

[Ganryuu]

@teagm003 In their "prime" was 1600's and onward.. Samurai became useless then, since Samurai was a tool for war. That's when they started to create bushido and become philosophical. Before that, Samurai was just any other warrior.

There were many guns used during sengoku jidai. Sengoku jidai was prime era for Samurai I think.

Also, I don't use sugar with tea..wwww

[teagm003]

@Ganryuu OK, I was reading up on some more stuff, it seems I was wrong, and before I make myself look even more retarded to people who have read more than me, I will admit I was wrong...

Sorry for arguing off of almost no information, most of which I'd gained through scanning random books and web pages.

[Skutarth]

@Ganryuu I fail to see post 1600's as the prime time of Samurai when in the mid 1500's Oda Nobunaga was gunning them down en masse with flintlocks. Oda took the shogunate during the Sengoku period using those tactics and was ruling into the 1600's. The start of his reign was the point at which Samurai became irrelevant.

[Xiphos151]

it is sad to see the samurai reduced to this

[benharperfan2]

Where can one get the Ashigaru - "Foot Soldier's" Armour? The red colored ones are way cool!!!

[DiepSpartan117]

is this making a movie

[69Timmeh69]

i wish i was a samurai although i wouldnt commit suicide

[fassenkugel]

u need by a steady cam at least...

[Kunolamu]

I enjoy reading what people say, "Back then it was all about cavalry charges and sword battles." Thats more of western tactic to my knowledge. And seriously, our soldiers are trained to stay alive. But so where they. They didn't learn kata to simply kill fast, it was to kill, without being killed. Watching this video and commenting on how cutthroat battles were then, compared to now. Is like watching a civil war reinactment and going "See, it wasn't that bad.".

[kishaba1980]

I am a Modern Samurai

[Dictator300]

HA! Samurai are no more. There is no such thing as a modern samurai.

Japan would have to either divide, or reinstate a fighting military force. Which they don't have, nor would they ever do, since the US have pretty much destroyed such ideas.

[wiggalama]

@Dictator300 1.JSDF kicks ass :) 2. The Samurai don't exist in an official capacity any more, but are still around in the hearts of the male japanese. 3. The US's imperialism is something we have paid for for decades. Japan has become one of our best allies. You are an idiot.

[sarge6925]

i think the meiji restoration ended the Samurai era by banning the practices of killing peasants if they have disrespected a samurai and Samurais are also banned from showing their katana in public. Modernization of Japanese Military 1868-1931 meant that samurai's were rarely used in japan and was only used for officers and high ranking official till 1945. Though high rankings in the later years werent expected to learn the way of the samurai for example in ww2 Swords were just given out in mas

[imsessyful]

kewl

[elesararwos]

Samurai were amazing :)

I love Japanese culture ^.^

[DiscoSamurai7]

Samurai followed a Daimyo, the Daimyo followed the Shogun.

If the Daimyo switched sides, the Samurai under him followed.

[socrates2468]

thats kind of sick if you knwo what i mean

[DiscoSamurai7]

@socrates2468

Well, the way soldiers are today would probably be sick to the samurai.

Modern soldiers don't have a master, they don't need to commit ritual suicide when they refuse an order, or lose a battle, or one of those many other reasons why any self-respecting samurai would commit seppuku. Of course, soldiers today are trained to be smart and stay alive, whereas ancient warriors were all about cavalry charges and sword fighting.

[EPsuperFan]

Daimyos do not switch sides, cause they are the sides themselves. There were never two shoguns together, only Daimyos who are close to becoming shogun. And when a samurai betray, or "switch sides" due to any reason, there is no guarantee his subordinates should follow at all, it depends on the level of loyalty and many other factors, as shown on history. Sengoku Japan was as realistic and cut-throat a period as the modern word, if not more.

[wiggalama]

@EPsuperFan False, look at Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Battle of Sekigahara of 1600 for example....or THE example. :)

[TheWarriorArts]

The samurai had a tendacy to switch sides if the other looked more powerful to escape failure on the battlefield so they would'nt be acquired to commit suicide, in a nut shell they were dishonourable cowards!....Totally over glorified!.

[marinegrunt4145]

ok first off the samurai swore alleigance to a shogun and they would fight for that shogun until death switching sides would have been viewed as unhonorable and they would have to commit suicide anyway or be beheaded

[narcoscatolicos]

@marinegrunt4145 that's a lot of bullshit my friend.

[narcoscatolicos]

@marinegrunt4145 that's a lot of bullshit my friend.

[SeductivPancakes]

@marinegrunt4145 Battle of Dan-no-ura and Battle of Sekigahara are two battles that are prime examples that Samurais do switch sides or defect. Both of these are major battles that could have changed the history of Japan.

[Nutkin57]

Read up on your 'Bushido' and general history before you start calling samurai dishonourable cowards.marinegrunt is right by the way, it was extremely rare for samurai to switch sides merely in the interest of preserving their lives-their ideas on life and death are impossible for someone like you to comprehend.Go back to flailing around in your back yard with a sword you bought off eBay instead of pretending you're an expert.

[hongbao]

My children are re-enacting Japanese culture in the US.

they come home from school and study until bed-time, respect their elders and our national traditions.

[lolimcool19]

Good for you, but nobody here really cares..

[BRAMCRACK3R]

Whatever, I do this every weekend.

[19786657]

I can't help but laugh.

[b52goats]

why are they all wearing Takeda Shingen

[krazykyle110]

super LARP

[freebeeaccount]

so is japan fighting in real (from America)

[gloves1982]

DAMN, i wish i was japanese

it would be so much fun to be in one of these

[wargamemaster]

same

[24michiganironbrigad]

@gloves1982 We have them In the US, Canada, and Europe too mate. Any time period as well.

[lovehates7777]

@gloves1982 u ready to commit seppuku anytime you get fucked?

[yamatonz]

My cousin is from Japan i think she said she went to one of these as a field trip when she was younger i am not really sure if she did but i think she did

[Nagakura41]

This looks like allot of fun. I wanna do this. Samurai reanactment is cool.

[musiv]

yeah its great there should be much more of this.

[Zlatchi]

This is very good people should make more of these