Since you’ve now covered Muramasa, why not cover the Katana that are usually also generally paired with Muramasa as an opposing side, Masamune.

The Tokugawa could also have allowed the idea of 'cursed' weapons to thrive as a psychological ploy.The existence of such weapons tacitly implies that you *need* cursed weapons-- that is, a rare unnatural advantage -- to have any chance at opposing them.

Thank you for this feature! I was hoping you would mention Tonbokiri since this was also a Muramasa (Smith:Fujiwara Masazane) blade even though it's a spear head and closely related to Tokugawa Ieyasu being owned by Honda Tadakatsu himself.

About the last part you mentioned, "why did they let people believe that Muramasa is cursed", you mentioned in earlier part that because people believed Muramasa is cursed and brings doom to Tokugawa family, rebels started using it but standard people tried to hide they own one. This could also be the reason. People on Tokugawa's side or neutral people wouldn't show they own Muramasa, but rebels would use it as a charm. So then they only had to check who has Muramasa to find rebels.

@Grizabeebles

2 жыл бұрын

There's also the element that Muramasa katana were high quality "forbidden" goods. Which means that anyone who got away with wearing a Muramasa in the open had to be taken as an opponent with more than just sword skills but also resources such as money or rank behind them. And those additional resources meant they could come after you and your family if the duel didn't end with someone dying.

Have you heard of the cursed youtube channel Let's Ask Shogo? They say once you click on it you won't be able to leave without learning fascinating things about Japanese culture. It is one thing to present elements of a culture. It's an entirely different thing to show how the culture views it's own elements. Your videos are always a wonderful mix of both. Thank you as always for your hard work Shogo. It's very much appreciated.

@mermaidmarina86

Жыл бұрын

This KZread channel has cursed me to stay up past my bedtime.

(Always kinda wondered if it had something to do with a particular Muramasa and say, a shogun, after a couple injuries or something being like, 'Yeah, don't use that one, it'll bite you.' Sometimes blades'll get a rep like that, doesn't necessarily mean a 'curse' but one that's maybe less happy or more 'thirsty' and best shown extra care with.

We the lovers of Japanese culture in India love watching your informative videos for deepening our knowledge about Japan♥️♥️

I'm not surprised if a cursed katana is simply what we proclaim a regular katana to be in front of other people just to make sure nobody tries to steal it.

Truly to say masamune is the greatest swordsmith who cannot be rivaled , but muramasa was the first swordsmith I think to rival masamune swords in terms of quality and sharpness.

Just realized that your intro card states that you lived in the US for 6 years. I would be very interested to hear what it was like adapting to the differences in the day to day life you must have experienced. Thanks for the very informative content that you produce!

This stories always bring my attention, seeing how amazing and crazy they can be It’s amazing, this channel only brings me more reasons to admire the culture is katana and samurais, the culture of Japan itself too

I love watching those videos, to be honest not out of love for the japanese culture, but because they are so well made, and shogo has a very soothing voice. Listening to these stories like a podcast while working at home is so fun😊

I love your channel because I love to learn other cultures, and I’ve always found Japan an intriguing place! Love you and your channel ❤️

I am watching this cause Senji Muramasa is a character in the Fate Franchise and he summoned the Tsumukari blade (the katana Susanoo pulled out from Yamata No Orochi)

I'm buying my katana this Friday. It's only 400$ and I'm planning on taking iaido, kenjitsu/ kendo & tameshigiri. I'm all in. This will be my cheap training sword. I hope one day to travel to Japan and get a proper Katana. You've helped me out of a dark place Shogo. I hope iaido, kenjitsu & tameshigiri will continue to keep me on the right path mentally.

Love this topic guys... samurai, katana and koryu arts are my favourites. Excellent work

I’m about to be in a ttrpg that’s roughly 15th century central Japanese culture and religion themed and I was feeling so intimidated getting into the history of this stuff. I’m a classics major. I study Ancient Greece and Rome. So I’m very very limited in a lot of my knowledge. But Shogo here offers such an easy to understand introduction to different topics that I feel fully confident to actually start my own research now

I enjoyed again thanks Shogo.

I love how you handle topics respectfully yet in a light-hearted, approachable way. Also, I'd love to see you do a reaction video sometime to Bill Wurtz's history of Japan video. Thank you!

Thank you so much for the information sir. Osu!

New subscriber, I love your content and have learned a lot in the short time I have found you!

It would be cool to get a series on the Tenka Goken. Could do an episode for each sword.

I LOVE Katana videos! Thank you Shogo!

Japanese culture, history, superstition and philosophy has to be THE MOST INTERESTING in all of the world. Thank you for your information. I pray for your success and hope you become sensei one day.

Great video

That is an excellent cautionary story when discussing any weapon, to never wield it against another carelessly. I really enjoy these deep explanations of what honestly seem like complex cultural ideas, that involve as much history and culture as they do.

This is a fascinating topic on the history of swords

Fascinating! I had never heard of Muramasa katana before. I have, however, watched Power Rangers Samurai, which included a cursed sword known as Uramasa. Maybe it was based on Muramasa.

I see Muramasa often as a cursed weapon in video games.

Wonderful video, fantastic idea to encourage viewers to increase playback speed, improves the experience!

We are almost there sir shogo, 1 m subs is near

Shogoooo 🙌🏾 amazing video

Very interesting, im surprised that there is a lot of history behind katana, there could be more than what i've even seen in social media, guess i'll have to study about the katana history on my own.

Arigathanks sensie!

Oh yeah, I also have one question! What time in Japan is the anime, Demon Slayer based off of, and what we’re the beliefs/culture of that specific time?

@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668

2 жыл бұрын

Well they have trains available to them, they wear fairly new clothes in the city, I'd have to guess Meiji to Showa.

@FriedGamer

2 жыл бұрын

It’s the Taisho Era (1912-1926)

@dimaswirantoraharjo2547

2 жыл бұрын

I think they mentioned Taisho era several times

@DallasM00n

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it is the Taisho era

@nyctophobiasm

2 жыл бұрын

@@FriedGamer oh ok. I was wondering if that was a made up name of a real period, or if it was actually a real name.

Please continued Honjo Masamune katana japan's greatest treasure that has not been found to date and its whereabots are still mysterious.👍

I love your videos ❤️

Great video, would you ever cover on the kabukimono? I've tried to read as much as I could online, but it's hard to find anything that I can understand.

Have you made a video talking about different types of katanas?

never knew you had kids, but nice videos as allways, i do enjoy knowing many things about japan

lovely vids! ❤️🇵🇭😄

I know this is pretty off topic but can you do a short about bento boxes and your view on people from other cultures using them?

Hello Shogo. Could you make a video discussing the Kusanagi?

I thought the curse and the part the respect of the blade were separate things. But they were combined at first. That’s a cool story. ❤️ No matter the context you gotta love the craftsmanship.

How about a "haunted" katana, where the spirit of a former owner of the katana spooks subsequent owners.

I like your channel 👍

Another great video Shogo. Please don’t be like that, I’m sure you will reach 1 million before 2023 ;)

@JunesFantasy

2 жыл бұрын

I think he’ll reach it in 2-3 months

1:11 Thas dude in the picture looks like Kanjuro from One Piece.

Yea it would be absolutly awsome to know the most famous katanas and why are they rly that rare or famous..... also like top 5 katana sword smiths video would be cool to

So it's basically the same as saying "don't point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot" ?

@AdamOwenBrowning

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! It's exactly like firearm safety where we do not brandish weapons; we would only draw our CCW if we are intending to shoot as soon as we are on target. it discourages a culture of brandishing weapons to bully and threaten. Ancient Japanese law saw the guilty party as the first to reveal the blade of his sword in a fight, regardless of who gets injured or killed. A great amount of thinking, education, and culture is required to keep a warrior class of armed men reliably peaceful.

How about Benisakura, Masamune or any other famous curse sword ? Also curious about some demon slaying katana, wonder how those legend start ?

Shogo-san, do you think that popular japanese website game touken ranbu by dmm accurate to their real swords reference?

Since we're talking about entertainment, maybe a vid on styles of Japanese comedy? Saw a Japanese Netflix show that was about these comedians that practiced one style, then there's also a different style that I only know about due to a song that's like the ending theme of an anime where the presenter sits on an elevated platform. Fun stuff..

Reminds me a lot of Thyrfing, a cursed sword in Nordic mythology. Also said to be impossible to unsheath without killing someone and to be the cause of three great disasters during its existence. But yeah, in order to prove the existence of cursed swords, you probably have to prove the existence of curses first. Greetings from Sweden.

I’m curious about the Tenka Goken. Not much references i can find about them

I don’t even have to watch this to add my two sense that no the swords aren’t cursed they are just very beautiful and well made swords

U can make a video on masamune

Oo-ooh... I bet the Doomblade in Shining Force 1 was named Muramasa in the Japanese version.

"Cursed" blade: Casually chilling at a museum. Ellegant green wallpaper: Covertly leaking fatal toxins into everyone nearby until Napoleon lost his life. I thibk wallpaper and asbestos deserve the fame of cursed a lot more.

@AdamOwenBrowning

2 жыл бұрын

My mother's grandmother, a woman alive in Victorian England, genuinely believed certain green things to be "cursed" presumably because things of that colour did genuinely kill people when she was a little girl. She would decline to enter rooms with green blinds, curtains, or wallpaper, and would fret about my mother entering those places. Japanese culture has this way of permanently cementing these ideas and practices in place. A small fraction of people did genuinely believe certain green things were cursed, but our cultures do not codify and enshrine these ideas, events or beliefs as well as the Japanese.

@SergioLeonardoCornejo

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdamOwenBrowning well. Considering that toxic green was even used for candy, ending the lives of many, thinking it is cursed makes sense.

I absolutely love Japanese culture. There is something about it that just clicks with me and my soul. I can’t put my finger on it but it just makes sense to me in a perfect way. I must have been Japanese in a former life or something!

This flies in the face of everything I learned from the early Soul Calibur games!

Like many legend its apocryphal. But it sure does make things cooler.

I heard a story long ago about a samurai who heard voices from his katana telling him to unleash it up the mortals.

Now I want one

Plz make a vedio on if ninjas really used genjutsu and how they used it

@anjumara4665

2 жыл бұрын

Yes plz

I have a question. Shinobi swords, from what I have come across, the idea of a shinobi using a shorter straight blade instead was a miss understanding or miss representation as an idea, is this true? Or did Shinobi use a blade actually like this. Like you see in 80’s ninja movies, or did they actually use a katana as well? Like the short straight sword existed, but was simply another tool/sword type among others in the Shinobi arsenal?

Shogo what is the origin of the legendary shinzamgoomy I hope I spelled that right

Memories broken, the truth goes unspoken, ive even forgotten my name!!!

Masamune? Or has it been done already?

It...actually would be cool to see a film maker in Japan make a modern horror or action movie based on this cursed sword story.

Next, Masamune !!

in my opinion the existence of cursed weapons was twofold: 1. there is no point in opposing the Tokugawa clan unless you have some sort of supernatural advantage 2. The idea that cursed weapons would compromise the integrity of one’s soul; no sane person would want to handle something which is cursed, right?

My thoughts on the matter is you bring the energy with your mind and open doors and close them and if your wise...... So in other words yes I agree with you. 😎💯

@darthrevan2410

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro means alot. As a long time lover of Japanese culture and Martial arts means alot.

Masamuni vs Muramasa. I've always wanted to know who's skills produced the best blades. Stream & leaves story.

That's why they had the name 妖刀村正 Youtou Muramasa means Demon Blade Muramasa

I want to learn how to use katana, and become a master of the Art. I'm currently in INDIA but once I go to JAPAN I want to learn it. Where should I go. Some places like EGA ???

Blades like that should never be drawn even for inspection. Better be buried in a tomb. I sound superstitious but if you ever come across a sword that draws you and gives you great discomfort put it down and never draw it's blade out.

The name muramasa is also the name of koga kuchikis zanpakuto in the filler zanpakuto arc from bleach And the idea of cursed blades sounds like it's just a thing from one piece with multiple wazamono, although I'm sure other animes show cursed blades

@ThaFuzzwood

2 жыл бұрын

Many of the supernatural stuff in anime is actually based on Asian folklore. A similar thing can be said about Natuto's sharingan powers and some of the other bloodline jutsu for example. Or a bit closer to reality, the souped up Wano arc of One-piece, where opening up the Wano country REALLY hits home right now...XD

I like new opening

it honestly would be cool if muramasa kanata was cursed. unfortunately, as far as i know, curses don't exist.

@jp16k92

2 жыл бұрын

His kanata are definitely cursed! ;)

@novemberecho3899

2 жыл бұрын

Mumarasa Kanata

Shogo-san, in many pieces of Japanese media, there are instances of orphaned children under and up to 18-20 who live on their own. Does this have any basis in reality, and if so, how is it possible?

Why does it say to speed up the video?

When made properly a sword is a work of art itself 😁

This is exactly what someone who was trying to keep the cursed swords hidden and contained would say. How do you protect something? Convince everyone tit doesn't exist.

As interesting as the history behind the Muramasa curse is, it seems kinda sad that someone needs to dedicate 5 minutes of a video to explain that, no, cursed swords don't exist.

🤩🤩

Shimotsuki Kozaburo entered the chat ...

Who would've thought

7:49 Wait... are you saying Muramasa is the Incel sword?

that's surprising, with how often 'muramasa' appears in popular culture in the last 30 years, i was under the impression it was a singular blade that may or may not of existed that was cursed

@NGMK

2 жыл бұрын

Depends on media. In "Demon Blade Muramasa" (Oboro Muramasa) there are 108 Muramasa blades!

@KenshiImmortalWolf

2 жыл бұрын

@@NGMK true but i have not seen that, most of the cases i've seen there's just one muramasa

The only swordsmith I know something about is Hattori Hanzo, Tarantino's version. Double-fictional. I guess most people who isn't into anime or the katana tradition recognize that name too. Something about the original Japanese Hanzo would be interesting.

@josephli4885

2 жыл бұрын

There’s no sword smith called hattori Hanson, it’s fictional.

@MariaMartinez-researcher

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephli4885 I know. There was a Hattori Hanzo who was a real-life ninja (several, actually), and Sonny Chiba played that role on TV. That's the Japanese Hanzo. I guess Tarantino gave that name to the swordsmith in Kill Bill because Chiba played the role.

@Knight_Astolfo

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephli4885 Hattori Hanson sounds like a bad oshare kei band

@josephli4885

2 жыл бұрын

@@Knight_Astolfo typo

@Knight_Astolfo

2 жыл бұрын

@@josephli4885 autocorrect, I get you, just thought it was funny

Five reasons why cursed katana don't exist: 1: Curses do not exist. 2: Curses do not exist. 3: Curses do not exist. 4: Curses do not exist. 5: Curses do not exist.

The story of Musashi and Muramasa Pleasss...

I thought muramasa was supposed to be the ingredients of the nights edge And only be found in dungeon chest

Of course its true, muramasa is cursed. I used it in golden sun, i keep being unable to act every turn... sucks, as it has very powerful attacks...

The true meaning of taking your katana out is very reasonable 👌 👍

Since no one knows what happened when the Muramasa family changed its name, it's safe to say that the memories are broken.

@matchedpowerofthesun

2 жыл бұрын

And the truth truly did go unspoken, but did they forget their name?

Wat if we today wanted to get our hands on a muramasa katana

Yeah, the "post-credit" story reminds me of the .40S&W by the FBI.

Muramasa is indeed cursed.. With bad "publications" during Tokugawa bakufu...