鹿児島に住んでいます。 日本の地方都市のリアルを届けようとしてくれてありがとうございます。 これからも応援させてください。

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

コメントありがとうございます😊 鹿児島そのままの素晴らしさを紹介したかったので、このチャンネルを作成しました。「人」を知ると「行ってみようかな」につながります。

I always wondered who was that one european guy from all the Jigen-ryu enbu videos. Now I got the answer. Thank you!

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment!

めっちゃカッコいい！

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

ご親切なお言葉ありがとうございます😅😅😅

I really like this series! Please keep going on! 素敵な動画ありがとうございました。頑張って下さい。

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! We have more videos coming up soon with some really interesting people. Will have to get editing!!

Alex, this is quite something spectacular sir. I love this story, I have studied the history of the Samurai class as best as I could for such a long time but this is just insane. Thank you for sharing this. It's quite incredible. I also appreciate sharing the appropriation of the culture and helping communities grow.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

私の祖先は鹿児島県出身なのに鹿児島に行った事もなければ、鹿児島の事を何も知らない！今まで考えた事もなかったのに、この動画を見たら無性に行って見たくなりました。

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

コメントありがとうございます😊 鹿児島はとても良いところなので、是非ご先祖様の故郷を訪れてみて下さい！

Very cool. He looks great in his costume!

Just discovered the channel from Chris Broad, and I’m glad I did. Beautiful shots in this video and I’m looking forward to more content!

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gunnar! Happy to have you along. Plenty more like this coming soon so have to get editing 😳

Great story and incredible videography! Kagoshima is now on my list of must visit places - hope to be able to make a trip down in the next few months!

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Braedon! Glad to hear you liked the look of Kagoshima and looking forward to your visit!!

I only really discovered the true beauty of Japan, and Kagoshima, after my 1st visit in 2017. So much so that I went back in 2018 and 2019. Still not even scratched the surface. I wish I had discovered it earlier in life and I'm sure I would be living there already. Instead it's a retirement dream in a few years time. But I would still love to immerse myself in the culture the same way you have. Hope it's not just a young mans game ;) - Excellent video.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! You’re absolutely right there is so much to discover here it’s hard not to keep coming back. All depends on what a young man is I suppose! I was told 70 was young yesterday so the Japanese way of looking at age is a bit different!

Great video! I lived in Kagoshima for 3 years on Amami Oshima. I loved the entire experience and I hope I can explore more of the prefecture in the future. Please visit Amami and the other islands when exploring and showcasing Kagoshima! :D

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Great to hear you lived on Amami Oshima. We will be visiting the islands to film next year most likely.

Awesome video, looking forward to the content you share with us.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Plenty more in the pipeline! Got a backlog of four or five videos to get editing 😅

Great video Alex I loved hearing your story. Especially great how you address the topic of cultural appropriation. And a nice angle on developing tourism to support communities and foster deep engagement, not just pandering to fly-in, fly-out tourists.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Most Japanese people are as you know incredibly happy to see their culture being appreciated by people from other countries. Only caveat really is being respectful and trying your best to do it properly. Hopefully we can see more people who have this mindset visiting Japan in the future.

This is a fantastic video! It's awesome to learn more about you man!

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Great to hear and always impressed at the level of detail and storytelling on your channel. Thanks for bringing Japanese history to life for a global audience!!

素晴らしいですね 日本文化🔥👍🙏

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

コメントありがとうございます😊 日本文化深いですね🤩✨

@APAinfoWAYAN

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeopleofKagoshima さん、その通りと思います👍🔥🙏 バリ•日本🇮🇩🎌文化のコラボは良いかも🔥🎌🇮🇩🔥👍

Man what an awesome video! I would love to see more

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliment! More coming soon!!

Really cool and interesting story. Thanks for sharing. I hope there will be many more videos about Southern Japan to see what it is like if you are not in the big cities. Would love to see it. Personally I think it is more interesting.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! Planning on doing more videos about the countryside in the future so stay tuned. In the meantime check out Shigemizu Kenro and what he is doing! kzread.info/dash/bejne/o2V82smaYrapdLw.html

Alexさん 素晴らしい👏お久しぶりです。お疲れ様でした。仙巌園が好きです。来週行きたい。KAGOPEEPS グードジョブ😀 鹿児島！桜島🗻1番良い気持ちです。

Here from Reddit. This is such an interesting story and interesting video. Well done!

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I really like tea from Kagoshima is it quite mild and has delicate taste.This video about swordmanship opened my mind more of Kagoshima,hope to visit Kagoshima there in someday.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind compliment and glad you like Kagoshima tea. Kagoshima is now the number one producer of tea in Japan surpassing Shizuoka. Will have to interview some tea related people soon!

thank you for sharing goodmorning sir here my support from Phillippines GodBless

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Tarciela, Thanks for your comment!

皇太子両殿下の御前で演武をなされたとは大変素晴らしいですね！ お話を聞いていて気品のある誇り高い方と感じました！ 応援しています！

I like that he mentioned cultural appropriation. Cultural appropriation is to do something for bragging rights, fashion, or as a costume/joke. Most cultures love sharing what they have with people who show genuine interest, respect, and effort. If you make my culture just for Instagram post, screw you.

Excellent video. Subscribed. Kagoshima and Jigen-ryu always interested me. Have always been a bit of a samurai history nerd, was randomly searching up info on Satsuma Samurais and Jigen-ryu related info (Yet again) and found this video. I have been traveling to the Kyushu region (Kumamoto etc.) couple years back and was planning to go to Kagoshima next but then the world gone crazy!

@PeopleofKagoshima

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind comment. Actually working on introducing the real culture of the Satsuma samurai at the moment. Will be completed by the end of this year!

@regwong9716

Жыл бұрын

@@PeopleofKagoshima Looking forward to it!

When I visited Kagoshima I saw someone practicing in a graveyard. I didn't pay as much attention to him as the suzumebachi that was trying to eat the persimmons.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

If they were practicing in a graveyard it was almost certainly Yakumaru Jigen-ryu which is a different but related school. Watch out for the suzumebachi though!

Absolutely loved the video, out of curiosity how did you find out about Jigen-ryu Hyosho? I admire your sense of adventure that led you to Kagoshima. I look forward to visiting in the near future but will live vicariously through the videos on yours and Mitch’s channel for now 😊

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind compliment! I originally found out about Jigen-ryu from a long term Japan resident of over 30 years who practiced another school of swordsmanship in Saga. He had demonstrated at an event with Jigen-ryu back in the 1990s and told me if I wanted to find the "real deal" of Japanese swordsmanship then I should search them out. Hope that answers your question and you are able to visit Kagoshima someday!

@alcote85

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeopleofKagoshima that definitely answers it. Thank you 😊

Hey admin, I am a student at Kagoshima University and I from beautiful Islands of Fiji. I am also making videos of kagoshima and where I travel.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Shameel, great to hear you live in Kagoshima and are loving it enough to make video content!

Beautiful video, perfect attitude.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Hopefully it will inspire some people to visit Kagoshima someday ☺️

@surfingonmars8979

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeopleofKagoshima I have studied Shindo Muso Ryu Jojutsu for many years - in Japan and US - and love the fact you’ve been able to train in your Ryu and incorporate it into your life, so richly and fully.

Amazing story 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Remember seeing you on journey across Japan 👍🏻 you have a new subscriber

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Jigen-ryu followed by onsen that you saw on Journey Across Japan is pretty much my Saturday night. Followed by beer of course 😊👍

@adammair3069

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeopleofKagoshima brilliant nice to see a fellow northerner out there living the dream👍🏻 Look forward to seeing your future content

Best Ramen I had in Japan was at Tontoro Ramen in Kagoshima, cannot wait to go back to that underrated city!

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Tontoro Ramen know it well! Some really great food in Tenmonkan. Hope to see you in Kagoshima sometime soon!!

Chris Broad sent me

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining us 😊👍

ありがとうm(_ _)mございます。日本人が忘れかけてる伝統です。

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

コメントありがとうございます！ 鹿児島の素晴らしい伝統文化を相応しい形で世界に発信し続けます！

Very good

I'm also from South Yorkshire! Very interesting video; what an experience to go through.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment and always happy to see another Yorkshireman! Always appreciative of the opportunities to experience true Japanese culture.

Very cool.

Great video. Very informative :)

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind comment! Great to have you along!

the last sentence was so profound and beautiful.

Alex is really living the dream, I admire his dedication. Are there opportunities many opportunities for teachers in Kyushu? I'm a physics teacher.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Some amazing benefits but also very hard work. Opportunities for teachers in Kyushu - that depends. Mainly English teaching roles but there may be opportunities for physics teachers at private international schools or universities.

Great video. Is there anyone in the U.K currently teaching Jigen ryu?

@PeopleofKagoshima

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. Jigen-ryu is only taught at the Jigen-ryu Hyoho-sho in Kagoshima City.

wow, I hope I can get there too, that's how good you are at making your vlogs, I hope one day I'm just as good as you, I always watch moiDoL vlogs, I hope you notice. Philippines

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Erwin!

I'm wondering if there's a specific type of tree branch that Jigen ryu use or any would do. I know majority of the koryu schools use stylized bokken made mostly from Japanese white oak.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

You are right that most schools use white oak but in Jigen-ryu we use a tree called Yusu (Distylium racemosum) for the branch like bokuto and either tsubaki or yama biwa for the carved bokuto.

@pullinside9

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeopleofKagoshima Thank you for reply. Very cool and unique. Again, out of curiosity, do you guys dry the branches out before using them or just strip the leaves off and use them as is? Is there a size or weight standard or just personal preference? I find it very fascinating.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Branches are dried for about five years or so. Mainly personal preference and what we can find but some are more suitable shape wise than others obviously.

Alex, After your Keppan, was your name recorded on the Jigen Ryu Tora no maki in katakana or did you adopt a Kanji name for that purpose?

I absolutely adore Japanese culture, and the Samurai. I want to follow,and learn, and become one as well.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Well no one can become a samurai these days (and you probably wouldn’t want to be one!) but you can certainly learn about their culture and the deeper side of Japan as well!

@willwilliams9557

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeopleofKagoshima Yes, absolutely! I have a deep appreciation for the culture. Also I had wanted to ask you that I was looking to purchase samurai armor from a company called Iron Mountain Armory what is the general perception Japanese people have of foreigners who are not of Japanese descent owning a wearing it?

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

@@willwilliams9557 Generally most Japanese people have no issue with foreign people owning and wearing armour. This does come with a few caveats though. Displaying and wearing armour correctly, learning about the cultural aspects properly, and preferably where possible also buying from a Japanese vendor. Marutake Sangyo here in Kagoshima is the largest producer of armour in Japan by the way!

@willwilliams9557

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeopleofKagoshima Awesome I look forward to learning all of the steps. Also does Marutake Sangyo do over seas shipping? I live in the U.S.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

@@willwilliams9557 I believe they can ship overseas. Drop them an email at info@yoroi.jp The website is here… marutake.shop

Found this from a twitter post from Chris

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Emilio - great to have you along for the ride 😊👍

Why my friend says I can’t to be a samurai

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Because nobody can be a samurai. It’s a hereditary social class that doesn’t exist anymore.

@salawatiahmad8522

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeopleofKagoshima ohhhhh

Don’t mind me Tokyo lens sent me here to hang out

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Nice one, thanks for joining us! Great livestream this morning 😎

Im from Chriss !

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Thankssssss!!!

仙巌園やん

Never seen the Shimazu spelled with a d before.

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

Complicated topic! There’s more information on the reason why here… www.senganen.jp/en/2020/02/shimazu-or-shimadzu/

@FortuneZer0

2 жыл бұрын

@@PeopleofKagoshima Intriguing.

あとは日本語マスターすれば 完璧ですね😊

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYWij9amiMXXotI.html

I want to create the world's largest community-based record store. It's Yokohama. Please l’ll Wating Message For You.Thank you😊

日本語喋って

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

コメントありがとうございます。 字幕頑張って作ったのに😅 日本語喋っている動画はこちらですよ💁‍♂️ kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYWij9amiMXXotI.html

考えてみると示現流って一撃必殺だから、剣道と言うよりも、真剣の武術に括られるのかな。 生麦事件も多分、示現流だったと思うと、、、、お話、身にしみます。

@PeopleofKagoshima

2 жыл бұрын

コメントありがとうございます😊 示現流は確かに「一撃必殺」のイメージが強いですが、「刀は抜くべからざるもの」と言う教えがあります。無礼なことをしない、無礼な言葉を言わない、喧嘩しないという事ですね。尚、敵に攻められた場合は無念無双で斬り捨てる事ですね。