A collection of three scary stories from medieval Japan, all featuring famous early samurai and told using real pre-modern artwork!
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
2:07 Hidesato and the Mukade
13:09 Yorimitsu and the Tsuchigumo
25:49 Yorimasa and the Nue
33:07 Outro
Original source texts:
– Gamō Ujisato: Shōnen Meishō (1934) (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1717979/27)
– Tsuchigumo-zōshi (https://longuemare.gozaru.jp/hon/tuchi/tutig_01.html)
– Shōnen Nihon Densetsu Dokuhon (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1873682/201)
Music:
– Peritune
– Dova Syndrome (Artist: スエノブ)
– Tam Music Factory (https://www.tam-music.com/)
– Music-Note.jp (https://www.music-note.jp/)
– H/MIX GALLERY (http://www.hmix.net/)
– Myself (Final beat)
Sound effects:
– 効果音ラボ (https://soundeffect-lab.info/)
– Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/)
– Eエスフェクツ (https://esffects.net/)
Images
(1) Hidesato and the Mukade
– Tawara Tōda Hidesato Emaki (The National Diet Library)
– Hidesato Sōshi (Kunaichō)
– Tawara Tōda (Keio University Libraries)
– Tawara Tōda Hidesato (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
– Tawara Tōda Monogatari (Chester Beatty Online Collections)
– My Lord Bag-O’-Rice by Basil Hall Chamberlain
(2) Yorimitsu and the Tsuchigumo
– Tsuchigumo-zōshi (ColBase)
(3) Yorimasa and the Nue
– Various out-of-copyright print materials from the late Edo and early Meiji periods. About 90% of the images are directly related to the story, and about 10% are unrelated but “look the part.”
Any other images used likely came from one of the following wonderful web resources:
The National Diet Library Digital Collections (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/)
The Waseda University Library (https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/index.html)
The Tokyo Metropolitan Library (https://www.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/)
Colbase (https://colbase.nich.go.jp/?locale=ja)
Penn Libraries (http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/fisher/index.html)
The Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works (http://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/?ln=ja)
The Hiroshima University Library (http://dc.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/text/)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The British Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Kyoto University, National Institute of Japanese Literature
Photo AC (https://www.photo-ac.com/)
Illust AC (https://www.ac-illust.com/)
Translated, written, and edited by Buyuuden Japanese History.
28 Comments
0:00 A feudal weeaboo.
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Giant centipede , yup. At least 2 anime. Can’t remember which but no less terrifying
The sokutai (ikan) and kanmuri look great on you 🙂
こんにちはAdamさん、This was a really fun video your ideas for videos are vey creative. I liked all the stories but I think the second one was the scariest. the creatures were also interesting I think you could make video about that too. 和服が似合う
Hidesato sounds like a proper witcher
In case you can't tell from the links, the books are in Japanese.
It may be too late for Halloween, but it's always welcome. I've heard the story with Yorimitsu somewhere before but I can't recall where.
Returning in Stunning Fashion!
The second story is my favorite, though I loved them all! But the second tale was the spookiest and it reminded me of the great Mizoguchi film “Ugetsu.”
Love your videos. I find them interesting and your voice is very relaxing.
Keep the great work!
Great stories
Your channel is genuinely now one of the top Japanese history channels! I’m a huge fan!
Even ancient Japan had people living under bridges…
I think most of the horrors came from the edo period
The problem with this video is that none of these stories are horror tales. They have some scary elements but are really just heroic tales. He should have told something about yurei or onryo.
In Nioh (Video Game), these creatures are boss fights
Can't imagine ever being scared of a hopping umbrella with a monster tongue
But I used to be scared of Jeff the Killer so I have ZERO room to talk
According to Say Syonagon it had been extremely fashionable at that time (800-900 AC) to know well Chinese antient poetry and use it in common day life to descibe events. Hence upon hearing a knews someone could say a phrase slightly related to the event meanwhile being a qoute from an old Chinese poem. And only the one, who knew the poem and/or its author could have responded properly quoting as well. For someone uneducated such a dialogue may had sounded like a slightly silly decadent chat.
LMFAO… this is what happens when you only read the title of a research paper and jump to conclusions.
No.. there is no magic compound in spit that is effective at killing, or even intoxicating insects.
Yes, we do have several compounds that kill "bugs", if by "bugs" you are referring to the slang use of the term when describing microbes such as bacteria, protists, and fungal spores, but these certainly are not insects. Aside from peroxides and enzymes like protease, the 2002 paper you flashed up on screen also referenced a protein, MUC7 20-mer, and to quote the paper it "is taken up by bacterial and fungal cells and stops them pumping electrically charged particles, called ions, in and out of the cells, causing the "bugs" to die. It also seems to be active in only tiny amounts – less than 10 millionths of a gram is all that is needed to kill cultured bacteria in a dish."
This also illustrates the importance of specific language when doing a google query.
To most people the word bug means any small creepy, crawly thing, with or without wings, that is small enough to step on, and that isn't a mammal, reptile or bird.
However, the actual scientific definition of a "bug" is an insect of a large order distinguished by having mouthparts that are modified for piercing and sucking.
In other words, to be a true bug, it must be an insect that has a proboscis, and that does not include centipedes.
In this case the information you were after was to know if human saliva kill centipedes and other insects, specifically poisonous ones.
To avoid confusion with the use of the slang term "bugs" you should have queried "human saliva effects on insects", or "Human saliva toxic to" if you want to know if it has any toxic properties to any species.
Long story short, outside of the fact that it apparently has the all the pieces needed to become toxic, human saliva has not been shown to be toxic to any complex multicellular organism.
If i'm actually being scientific about this, at this time we do not have any good evidence that human saliva has any kind of deleterious effect against insects that would surpass any deleterious effects that would be expected if water was substituted for the saliva, under the conditions studied.
Or, put in normal person language, best we can tell, It's about as effective as spraying them with water.
That said I wonder if the use of the word poison was intentional as we do have some enzymes that are capable of partially neutralizing certain toxic compounds.
But this doesn't make sense in the context, as unlike some millipedes, centipedes aren't typically considered poisonous, just venomous (although you want to remove the head and mandibles where the venom is stored first before eating them), and it's quite the stretch from spit having ability to reduce the toxicity of SOME toxins (tannins, some acids, pretty short list) to being able to use spit as a weapon..
and now you know.. and knowing is half the battle!
Go JOE!.. lol 😛
Only 3.1 k subscribers? Thats a crime, the production value alone just say half a million.
Great stories and awesome storytelling – thanks!
Do you know the book The Lost Samurai by Stephen turnbull? A vídeo abaut the samurai who acted as mercenaries outside of japan would be very good.
I signed up 🇧🇷✌🏻 love japanese history.
have you played the game “sekiro: shadows die twice”? it’s in my opinion the best Japanese mythology based game, at some point you even go to a palace that leads to a dragon, called the fountain head palace, located around a lake that leads to a waterfall, and the nobles in it are kinda transforming into fish, I couldn’t help to notice the similarity to the palace of the first story.
Great,plz label images with dates
Hidesato FTW
I think the first two are represented in Okami, perhaps with some slight changes. This is very well produced, nice job. For future videos you can also check out the more that 4000 scans of Japanese woodblock prints in the Library of Congress database.