Tokugawa: Fate of an Empire

This documentary of Tokugawa Ieyasu was made using real pictures of the actual Samurai involved, and their Crests, set to The Lonely Shepard. There was one factual error in the movie, that of course beeing that Oda Nobunaga was not from peasant stock as implied, but that subtitle had been meant Hideyoshi, Toyotomi. Enjoy.

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[Seanuk]

Why do people feel the need for pointless academic point scoring?? Is it to enhance their shallow ego's or simply to hear themselves talk? This video is an accurate one, but no history is 100% correct.. deal with it and just watch the fucking video!

[StaggerLeee]

@Seanuk : Thanks Sean. I never intended this to be my final version and I definitely mixed a couple of facts up, but I never take personally the assaults by the morons in here. Half of them are asking about "Shogun the Movie" which means they're too stupid to have read the book and others know three facts about Japan and want to comment on one simple mistake. But it's nice to have the discourse anyways. The original intention of this was to be an outline for a real documentary on Tokugawa.

[tenchimuyo69]

Does Tokugawa really count as an empire? Was it not the Imperial Loyalists that stripped the Tokugawa of their power during the Boshin War? Not that the emporer of Meiji had the power he was supposed to have anyway. Thats why Satsuma got so pissed.

[StaggerLeee]

@tenchimuyo69 The title is about the fate of the Japanese Empire, not a Tokgawa empire. And the Tokugawa Bakufu enjoyed almost 400 years of rule over Japan before the Boshin War, so I would say that that was plenty of time to assert itself as a force within Japan.

[wardogmobius]

Whats the name of the song?

[Qball797]

I wonder what would of happened if Oda Nabunaga wasnt killed would Ieyasu still became Shogun??

[vasian89]

Oda was not a peasant, and he was killed by one of his generals before Japan has been united! u stupid peasant! ))

[StaggerLeee]

@kempeitai1 This is an interesting bit of trivia here. You are correct, that's for sure. I hope you were none the less entertained. Asshole.

[vladikod]

@zorc2000 newborn nation? im too lazy to google it, but im sure japan had existed one way or another loooooooong before tokugawa. and as good a novel as Shogun is, it is historical FICTION. it is by no way an accurate representation but simply one interpretation of historical facts.

[kempeitai1]

Kozoku vs Gozoku depends on if you consider him just a head of a clan or of noble decent. My mistake, he was born in Owari (present day Aichi) prefecture.

[69kapa]

not kozoku,豪族(gouzoku)

Odawara is now Kanagawa prefecture and Nobunaga born in Nagoya(now Aichi)

[kempeitai1]

Oda was from a kozoku (daimiyo) family from Odawara (part present day Aichi prefecture). They were thought to be descendants of the Taira.