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@revolutionarycomrade

5 жыл бұрын

This must be why the poop emoji is so happy 💩

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

💩💩💩🧻

@oiudatropen9548

4 жыл бұрын

Linfamy and it's SO pure- such a shame!

@au9parsec

4 жыл бұрын

The avaibility of Winnie the Pooh increased greater crop yeilds.

@badgerman6666

4 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see a video which actually explains where the Japanese got the idea of using fertiliser this wasn't actively done in the bronze age and i don't know a lot about the worlds agriculture so i think that would be an interesting video.

It's good to learn about peasants once in a while, especially when most historical sources are more concerned with the ruling classes. Great video, I can't wait to see what you have up next for us 😁

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

The 99% don't get enough love :p

@LadyCoyKoi

5 жыл бұрын

The reason for that is that the peasant class didn't keep or managed records or documents well enough for future generations to read. Finding documents from the lower status member of society was hard and many of them didn't know how to read or write. The nation had the belief that such things would keep them away from producing food for the nation, specifically for the nobles and royal family.

@dku746

4 жыл бұрын

Instrumentality1000 that’s the truth. History isn’t politically correct. You sound like a Marxist.

Woe is the man with no rice paddy he who still lives with his daddy ... pure gold, this needs to be continued

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Do it :)

@joannamysluk8623

3 жыл бұрын

No fields where our food could be grown, By winter we'll all die unknown. I like writing poetry.

@joannamysluk8623

3 жыл бұрын

The reaper shall tear us apart, Also, thank you for the heart.

@Linfamy

3 жыл бұрын

Ah you just can't stop, can you 😄

@joannamysluk8623

3 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy Be it the blizzard or be it the wind, A poet never shall give in.

If you own a farm, you own a lot of food, which is something everybody needs to *SURVIVE* so that makes you king.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah but I'd rather be the person who other people make food for :p

@KyoushaPumpItUp

5 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy Don't we all?

@Schmetterwurm

5 жыл бұрын

Let's all build houses, except mine is bigger because I own the food.

@islamicschoolofmemestudies

3 жыл бұрын

Everyone miss that reference*

@weirqueen6998

3 жыл бұрын

*NO* why? *THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER*

One small rice grain for a man One giant improvement for humanities survival Awesome video!

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

I believe that's a quote from Niiru Aruma-siturongu

@bittu2507

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao

I’m really curious how they found out that complicated process of growing rice

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

iirc the process came from the mainland

@peachykeko2855

3 жыл бұрын

learned it from the koreans. rice isn't native to japan so it has to have been introduced

@jackjackyphantom8854

3 жыл бұрын

@@peachykeko2855 Rice Agriculture originated from Southern China.

@peachykeko2855

3 жыл бұрын

@@jackjackyphantom8854 that's where the koreans learned it from.

@jackjackyphantom8854

3 жыл бұрын

@@peachykeko2855 Wet Paddy Rice Farming was originally associated with pre-Austronesian and Hmong-Mien cultures.

I tried traditional rice transplanting once, way back when I was still in school - it's a pain, huge (yuuge) pain, for a lot and lot of people

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

That must've been fun :p. I'm sure it was a good experience though. My school was more boring than yours.

@acebalistic1358

4 жыл бұрын

Neat. But I bet my school was the weirdest We had to learn the bill of rights Rap song

@TheSlipperyNUwUdle

3 жыл бұрын

@@acebalistic1358 that sounds so 90s. XD haha

@acebalistic1358

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle I never recovered from the trauma.

We still use transplanting method in Nepalese village. It is a backbreaking process. Just human labor and no machines. Government says machines on the way. I wonder when they will come.

@anh-san

5 жыл бұрын

Alpha X keep us updated. :)

@alphax2641

5 жыл бұрын

Aye sir.

@williamadiputra2850

5 жыл бұрын

Just curious, why rely on government? How? Machine handouts? Why not buy it yourself? Not rhetorical, genuinely curious

@franciscraig8164

5 жыл бұрын

@@williamadiputra2850 farming machineries are expensive for most independent farmers. Only large corporations could afford those goodies. :( (At least here in the Philippines)

@Cleeon

5 жыл бұрын

Are you Japanese ? If yes, keep us updated, we're interested to know when it come too

Babies...the answer to everything!

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

O.o 🤣

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Babies... the answer and the problem.

@mr.monhon5179

3 жыл бұрын

Well, atleast bebes are edible.

@cadethumann8605

5 ай бұрын

​@@mr.monhon5179 Oh, dear God/kami, no...

The royal's -slave force- , err, noble peasants really had it rough D:

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Them: well time to wade into the water to plant stuff Me: ew puddles

@thedoruk6324

5 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy And snakes ! D:

@anthonyfox585

5 жыл бұрын

The DORUK eh snakes aren't too bad I had one come into my house the other day

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

@@anthonyfox585 o.o noo

@anthonyfox585

5 жыл бұрын

Linfamy lol it was just a gopher snake 🙂

dude i love you, linfamy, just casually dropping interesting connections between main crops and family structures, exactly the sort of holistic information i want

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks brother :)

it's amazing how you effortlessly put humor in your videos! Being a big fan of anything that's Japanese I love your channel. 🤓 big fan from India.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Haha thank you! Hugs from USA :)

2:56 I would survive ~50 seconds as a peasant.

@user-id1vw5lo5p

5 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t live 10. I’m jealous😂😂

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

🤣

@manager-nim2623

5 жыл бұрын

You really hearted your own comment lol

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

That's right, no shame here 😆

@manager-nim2623

5 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy it's okay I do it with every comment I write 😂 now where's my like😏

This actually great help. I'm making a story that takes place late in the Heian era and the three main characters are only commoners. It's hard to find what their lifestyle is like outside of the posh, aristocratic life.

@cadethumann8605

5 ай бұрын

How goes your story?

"They'd walk into their new house and bleh, dead"... Epic XD!

Commoners used free land for all kinds of things like... Grazing animals (*me*ok👍) Collecting wood (*me*good😁) And..... Catching pokemons (*me*wait what?!! 😂)

@karolinakuc4783

3 жыл бұрын

If a village had a shaman who could summon demons why not also some pokemon are just animals and used for meals

So the husband had less responsibility to the wife and child than in modern marriages, because he still lived with his parents. But the wife had less responsibility to the husband and child, because she still lived with her parents, and could get her relatives to help raise the children. So it was less a nuclear family and more an extended family.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Though the husband had even less responsibility, not having to take care of the kids. Actually he could just leave both wife and kids if he wanted to. The wife and her family had responsibility over the kids

Another great video. It's not that uncommon to see families living separately even today in Japan. It's usually temporary because of work. I had several students that were 'business bachelors' when I was an ESL teacher there. It's also still a tradition for expectant mothers to return to their family's home towards the end of their pregnancy to have the baby and get help with the infant.

@elizabethmender

Ай бұрын

My great-grandmother is Chinese and helped raise my brothers and I. As a mother of 4 myself, I can absolutely see how this "division" benefits the entire family. I went home with my first, to learn, and then a relative would come and stay with us for the first month with each new child. A HUGE help!❤ I wish more people could/would utilize this.

That was extremely informative my lord Lin. I cannot wait for the Kamakura video.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you like!

@shivamthapa7303

5 жыл бұрын

Oh definitely my lord

Lol my ancestors were rice farmers 😅 I managed to grow rice in an old ice cream container

@DanielSilva-gc4xz

3 жыл бұрын

🥚　卵　🥚

My 90yr old mother was an Army brat her father was a brigadier general and for a while they lived in the Philippines. My mother still to this day will sing the planting rice song..the first line is' planting rice is never fun...'

@elizabethmender

Ай бұрын

Magtanim ay 'Di Biro!!!! My daughter's know this one too! My husband's Auntie is from the Philippines as well and taught this to them. I have not heard it in years. Thanks for the reminder!

Large, extended family collective farming in pre-industrial times was pretty normal. We called them "zadrugas" Whole villages would cooperate on certain tasks. It was called "Moba" or "Molba" which literally means "plea".

So all you need is poo and babies to survive

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm pretty much ;)

@stljfkaus

5 жыл бұрын

Ooh it’s 69 likes....

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

@@stljfkaus ooh

@user-cc7fk1zz9h

5 жыл бұрын

Now it’s 96

@seneca983

5 жыл бұрын

"night soil"

I'm left incredibly disappointed at the end of every one of your videos, they all feel so short and 2 minutes long at most. However this is due to just being so immersed into your explanations that I lose track of time. Awesome content my dude.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Haha sorry. Can't make longer content at the moment, I'm only one man. Maybe in the future though ;)

Wow. I can imagine living in a large home with a bunch of other people. Daily home life must’ve been wild.

Thank you for a much overlooked relatable segment

Some generations earlier but that help explains why Musashi had so much trouble raising his crop, even with help they almost died.

I hear the Pokemon catching period was an exciting time. They went crazy for badges.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Good times

More Shoen history! The estate system doesn't get talked about nearly enough in accessible media.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

You may be the first person to ask for shoen history :p

hehe, great video as always :p i just found this channel two days ago and figured now was a good time to comment on it. I wish i had money to use for patreon

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

No worries, glad you like the channel! ;)

Great vid. I'm doing research for a Japanese themed dungeons and dragons campaign and your vids have been helpful. The humor makes them very digestible.

i’m studying to take the ACT and there was a section about culture in heian japan. i felt so smart :)

Very good videos, as always. Keep on Lin !

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Guess I'll keep going ;)

@franksinatra2530

5 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy Yeah, please, the history is so good :) ! Your videos remind me of Extra Credits without the political correctness. And japan obviously. Btw, I just subbed on Patreon, congrats you're over 300$/m now :)

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Woohoo thanks! I appreciate it ;)

The rice farming reminds of my family members they do the same process.

Ah! It would have made a bit of a living if someone had a horse and a plow and rode them from hamlet to hamlet offering to plow their fields for a price or hay or whatever. Maybe. This does require 2 expensive things: the horse and the plow. There are people with discking machines now that plow fields for a price and make their living from going farm to farm, which are often side - by- side with others. I suppose machines are relatively cheaper now, much more efficient, and much more lucrative given the farms are side - by - side and easier to get to, like in Southern to middle Indiana. It was a service my Gram paid for to till her backyard garden. There had to be a few peasants who had a little more stock and money to do this kind of thing. There *are* after all the occasional outliers. I figure this would be grist for a novel. Like Barry Hughart's trilogy of Master Li and Number 10 Ox, stories of an ancient China that never was. I must consider this.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Kinda like someone today who mows lawns :p

Can you do the life of a Samurai family/village?

As a filipino i would understand the hardwork of our filipino farmers and yes. Farming is very very hard.

Very interesting! Thank you

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

😁👍

You make history and lore easier to focus

I transplanted and have grown rice before, You are not wrong... IT SUCKS!!!

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Haha sorry you had to go through that

Awesome video

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome comment

4:30 I guess they where use apricorn at the time, poké balls were invented way recently

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

This is correct, they used apricorns to make poke balls. You are very knowledgeable :D

1:25 - *Best type of 'marriage' ever concluded by human species, we have to ressurrect it!*

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

:D

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

The best type of love is the separate type..

@thedoruk6324

5 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy precisely, the parents knew that ! :)

@htoodoh5770

5 жыл бұрын

"The best type of love is a separate type.." Uh, no really.

@thedoruk6324

5 жыл бұрын

@@htoodoh5770 its not 'that' seperate(!)

Are you sure the farmers were feeding the horses rice "straw" (ie the stalks after the rice was fully grown and the seeds were mature). Most grains that I'm aware of can only be used as "hay" to feed ruminant animals (cattle, horses, sheep etc) if the stalks are cut and dried before the seeds develop and the nutrients are still in the stalk. Since they were using the rice paddy system is it possible they grew one crop each year for the rice grain then a second crop which was harvested before it was mature?

Very educational

great video

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

👍😁

Catching pokemons. XD Great series you have. :)

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😉👍

I saw you were one subscriber short of 18,000, so I thought I’d make it an even number.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Yay thanks! Just don't unsubscribe when it goes over 18k to make it an even number ;)

@peanutsteak2216

5 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy I won't. I only discovered your channel about a week ago, but I'm studying to get into Tokyo University for grad school and these videos are helping a lot.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Ooh good luck getting into Todai!

Catching Pokémon, cool idea for the ancient to kill time. Haha 😂 ✌️👍

I like this video a little more than the other ones

My, that was interesting!

Do you think you might do videos on the different regions of Modern day Japan? For example, Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kansai, Chugoku, Shikoku, Kyushu, and the Ryukyu Islands

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm.. it's probably better done by someone who lives there right now tbh. I do want to do history of Ryukyu islands someday though..

Lol I laughed when he said to catch Pokémon

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Historically accurate :p

@jaychee9015

4 жыл бұрын

Same, same

I'd like to make a very large deposit to my wife today too.... She says her account is closed tho...

Grass Pokémon were probably most common here. I can't see Pikachu or other electric Pokémon being able to thrive here because short circuits.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

This is true

It is clear that Productivity/labour that was far behind the requirement for the traditional farm ricing makes the only issue that traps the people in the poverty😫

Few things never change in world Less than 5% will hold 95% of power resources and Luxuries Where as 95 will suffer let it be any culture any era or country or which timeline it is its always same

@jackxiao9702

Жыл бұрын

5% will control 95% of the resources. Which isn’t a problem per say, it’s when 5% consume way more than their percent in resources or move capital out of the community, that’s the problem. Which happens in Russia, Phillipines, African countries.

Is the Cambridge History of Japan your only source for this? What books would you recommend for an economic history of Japan?

Sir I @3:12 think you are wrong in the procedure of rice transplanting, actually the seedling are also planted in a wet paddy not dry, after they grow about 3 to 4 inches the paddy is flooded to soften the soil, after that transplanting will begin.

When you say the male peasants wrote poetry... Does it mean that the peasants knew how to read and write at that age?

@billcipherproductions1789

3 жыл бұрын

It was a joke.

"And catching pokemon" 😂

My grandpa said that another reason 🌾 rice 🍚 farming in japan is more difficult for its reliance on manual labor, unlike in South east asia people plant rice with the help of water buffalo which are strong and are very gentle unlike horses, it also produce milk, and is use for transportation.... Sadly they can't survive in japan's winter. ❄️

@funveeable

Жыл бұрын

My Vietnamese parents told me that rice farming in Vietnam was so popular that it was the primary reason China tried to invade Vietnam for over 1000 years

Can we get other history periods other than hiean?

In Shogun 2, I always peasant spam. When professional samurai charge at me you know what I say lol

Why wouldn't you just make an irrigation system that let you flood a field or let it dry when you wanted? Then you wouldn't need to transplant each seedling.

Whether you live in Japan, Korea or China, the life of the peasant is always hard

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

True true

@inquisitorsteele8397

5 жыл бұрын

It's suck to be a peasant no matter where you are.

I see they did an effective ways of maintaining family

I thought the dude was taking a green dump on the horse in the thumbnail lmao

The real poverty is not people are farming rice. But when the land are barren that is difficult to take edible food, summary it's natural resources that determine how rich people are.

*Sips Tea* Japan has been Exposed By the Great holy tea Spiller Linfamy Boi :)

the seedling bed is also swamped with water

Wait, you're telling me that rice does NOT grow in the supermarket, but I always see it coming out of a bag ??? It shouldn't get more crazy. Next thing you might want to tell is that milk comes from a cow instead of out of a bottle. 😜😁

@bskorupk

5 жыл бұрын

HA! What's Next? Spaghetti isn't made from the stalks of a Spaghetti Plant? ;)

@johnsamu

5 жыл бұрын

@@bskorupk Everybody knows spaghetti is a fruit and comes from a tree 😜😁

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

I thought spaghetti comes cooked, with tomato sauce and meatballs.

@bskorupk

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnsamu And surely there's an Archery Range near Target! :)

@bskorupk

5 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy Isn't Chef Boyard Dee an old Russian Recipe?

actually rice is one of the easiest crops to grow without machines...

@vivanyatodd5036

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but it's killing your back.

@krushnaji4940

2 жыл бұрын

No Bajra easiest crop you can grow

Were tightly knit communities also absent in previous periods? Or are these semi independent households a phenomenon of the Heian Period?

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

From what I've read...nah, the population was even lower in previous periods. Peasant communities were loose up to and including the Heian. The capital was pretty much the only "city." It had the largest concentration of people. Exile from the capital must have a harsh punishment for these nobles. There was no place in Japan like the capital, it wasn't like they could move to another city that's just a little smaller..

It’s the same in other Ancient Asian countries. Women stayed in their family ancestral home. The husband only visited the wife for sexual relations then had to return to his own ancestral house. He can only visit his children. Within ten years, they can move in together in a new house or in either of the ancestral houses. It worked

in this modern era is using transplant mode right?

Only 125 people hold power over 6.7m Britain with 650 people controlling 70m people:

i dont think anyone has that ad bar on the bottom any more, adblock is kind of universal now

Please talk about the Mongol invasion of Japan

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Oh definitely

Pimping is easier than Farming. They only did it to make Saki

My grandma is very industrious since we farm rice

My dad owns a transplanting field back my parents’ country

In India we still practice transplanting 😅 as part of cultural agricultural practice

Do you have a video showing the viewpoint of the barbarians in the north?

@Linfamy

4 жыл бұрын

That's actually in the works ;)

@Gustavogukpa

4 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy you rock so much, really. I'm from Brazil and study politics so.I don't have time to sit down and learn about Japan, even more about early Japanese history..your channel allowed me to gather knowledge about this country I like so much on a easy way to understand and I'm very happy for it. Muito obrigado!

Sun and moon tshirts but no Susanoo-no-Mikoto? I wanted all three.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Haha I'll put him up pretty soon ❤

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Told ya: teespring.com/susanoo1 :p

That's nuts!!!!

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

What is?

@skydivingcomrade1648

5 жыл бұрын

@@Linfamy 1. Me at early hours without sleep thinking my two words made sense to anyone. 2. The idea that raising young children without their father in the picture on a daily basis is at all healthy for the children let alone an entire scocity. Just look at statistics regarding young men raised in single mother homes, then think about all the homes with present but weak or practically absent homes......... it doesn't end well for the children ot the scocity, neither does texting while sleep deprived. Great vids!

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

@@skydivingcomrade1648 gotcha! Remember that it wasn't single mothers raising children, it was the mother's entire household. I'd bet that is healthier than having only 2 parents.

So, why did the more complicated way of planting rice become more popular?

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Better yield, easier weed control

1:27,LOL

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

😅

How wonder how do they catch pokemon back in the day

I saw an old Kung foo flick where some peasants were herding and an evil lord came in and ordered them off....now I get why it was a bug deal that one of the men yelled "This is free land, yiu cannot tell us to leave" I mean, he was murdered after which gave rise to the hero but now it makes sense

LOL!!!!!!!! Catching pokemon

Just the Tipp?

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

;)

but what about the fujiwara clan?

But what about Sekiro?

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

🤣

What was the fate of the mother and child while under age ? if the father died ?

You also needed a large family to catch 'em all.

For what I know, the cooked living separately and only contributing to make babies is a characteristic of matriarchal societies. Japan, by this time, still had remains of it, although women already didn't have political power.

but i want more than the tip :3

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

That's the other channel...

You stole my sub from extra credit. Be proud of yourself.

@Linfamy

5 жыл бұрын

Didn't mean to be a thief :O

Great video, but I still don't know what family married their daughters into to emperor's court and controlled the state for 200 years.

@Linfamy

2 жыл бұрын

Rhymes with bootymama