Seeing these photos makes me think about how crazy it is how much and how rapidly the Meiji restoration transformed the country completely. And that before that, Japan was really different.

And no battles had been fought for 200 years...10 generations removed. If they had cameras 1560-1615 you would see scary hardened samurai. with scars and fierce eyes

@Shodan141176able

8 жыл бұрын

+rich808 and you would have an ejaculation?

@ProjUltraZ

8 жыл бұрын

+Shodan141176able. shodan? in what?

@haloborn6785

8 жыл бұрын

Would their armor be more......scary? Just asking :p

@AimForMyHead81

6 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@rhysnichols8608

4 жыл бұрын

True, but these guys were far from soft, they still trained hard and lived disciplined and tough life styles

Thank you for having great music to set the appropriate mood instead of some generic remix. Also, nice sync with the conch shell at 1:29 .

Glad someone finally posted a video of these warriors, they lived the simple life and should never be forgotten....EVER!

3:09 the last Sho-Gun , Yoshinobu Tokugawa

@dekubaner

8 жыл бұрын

+66berserker damn, you noticed first. i was gonna say it. good catch!

@user-wz5qx6hw8f

5 жыл бұрын

An old lady who watched him in her young time still alive in Japan . The Japanese TV program introduced her …

@avagrego3195

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-wz5qx6hw8f Thank you.

Love the music. I love all the music from the movie 'The last samurai" Cool pics too. Thanks for uploading.

Samurai's soul is existing in Japanese people's hearts. Despite of the rapid Westernization after Edo regime finished, we've succeeded to Samurai sprits so called "Bushi-do" from parents to children until now. It's not like how to use the Japanese swords, but it's more disciplines and virtues to be a good person. The Westernization couldn't banish these spirits.

@pixelart59

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree. The most disciplined people in the universe.

@murielvaillancourt3855

3 жыл бұрын

I agree and it’s not only in « discipline » but more in spirit virtue. You must have the right to continue and to buff the excess of westernization and rediscover your ancients practices, like more and more Natives around the world today. Westernization is far to be all good and it seems vital to people to recover their unique roots, before we melt all in a robotic dystopia.

@Benjamin-zn8rk

3 жыл бұрын

Westernization is cancer. Technology only

@zzagriff

Жыл бұрын

All of us with Japanese ancestry must agree

That quote at the end nearly brought tears to my eyes... great clips.

@tabakinam7053

2 жыл бұрын

Hello! Are u still active on KZread. Pls reply if you are

It's so amazing to see these images of samurai, Shogun, and Meiji era policemen

@teresamartinez3576

3 жыл бұрын

7

I cannot tell u how many times ive come back here to listen and take in this video.... amazing culture that it is .brings me sadness sometimes to realise how things change but mostly i find it peacefull and i find contentment. Thank you great upload.

@SiiNTi

4 жыл бұрын

How beautiful must it have been to live in this Era? Before technology, climate change, just nature and culture..

@SNATCHYDBS

Жыл бұрын

I'm here again to see it and find some peace from the world , to see the beauty thats within us . .. 🙏💙

@user-ds2lm8uz6s

Жыл бұрын

😯😯❤️🙏

These are truly great pictures and a beautiful slideshow. Thanks a lot

These photos always remind me of the photographs of the American Indians taken about the same time period. These figures are full of nobility, pride and the warrior spirit, taken in a time when their way of life was ending. There is a certain sadness mingled in that pride, that shows in the eyes. Long Live Bushido!

@zsoltpeter2858

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Their culture deeply close. Me remembers cossacks and hungarian betyárs too

@nodescriptionavailable3842

6 ай бұрын

@@zsoltpeter2858at one time Japan was conquering countries that now look at Japan like possible next conquest. Japan has been through it all, what remains is some of the most precious threads to the past in their traditions, art, “crafts” which some perceive as art. Too me, no one incorporates art into daily living like old Japan. The centuries old kilns and sword are a dream destination for me. RIP Shoji Hamada and all the rest.

@zsoltpeter2858

6 ай бұрын

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@zsoltpeter2858

6 ай бұрын

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Thanks for posting these very interesting pictures. The Bakumatsu and early Meiji years were indeed a time of great reform and change and thus also the problems that came with it.

these are the last TRUE warriors of honor the world has ever seen, thank you for the vid

It's amazing how this magnificent culture have been lost in just a century..my respects from Greece

@Vatras888

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing were lost

great pics!! love it!

Wonderful video. Thank you very much for sharing it.

3:05 its Katsumoto

@capscaps04

7 жыл бұрын

oh shit, you`re right. XD

@user-ce9fj1ui3n

7 жыл бұрын

Tell you the truth,His name is Tani Tateki.

@STriKER_-gr7pr

6 жыл бұрын

Lol

@rsym.4397

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ce9fj1ui3n sorry, can you tell me any source about samurai or ninja. I want to learn their history 🙏

japanese should be proud of their history and culture...

@user-ce9fj1ui3n

6 жыл бұрын

君たちはどうなんだろうね？

@noraisabel6557

4 жыл бұрын

They are

@toothpick4649

4 жыл бұрын

Eff off ! 3000 aussies and Brits murdered Sandakan and worse in Hong Kong and Singapore

@kelpiemare7522

4 жыл бұрын

@@toothpick4649 indigenous peoples of North America Indigenous peoples of South America Indigenous peoples of Austalia...New Zealand...Africa...India...this list is not exhaustive.

@Azizz1

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's a great history I have read about. Unfortunately, if the country is not strong, they cannot know their history and spread their culture, for example, America always publishes and applauds its history in the time of the Cowboy, even though it is really nothing compared to other dates and civilizations. If it becomes strong, it will win even with history. There are a lot of countries and people who have a very impressive history and culture, but unfortunately either is not widely recorded in history unlike Japanese history it is preserved and detailed to them. We do not know much about history. The age of mankind compared to our knowledge of history is negligible. As a German who loved history and read a lot about it, I expect that the greatest civilizations that I do not know much about are Egyptian and Arab civilization.

great to see all these pics in one film

0:08 The Samurai be like, its gonna be on books 100 years from now, i gotta look BADASS !

I cannot tell why I am so fascinated by this stuff....

2:55 looks like seppuku

@lamebubblesflysohigh

9 жыл бұрын

MarekUtd I believe it is!

@codealamode1016

8 жыл бұрын

It is, you can see some blood

@66berserker

8 жыл бұрын

+MarekUtd That' s right. But, it's staged.

@succulentbatteries5682

7 жыл бұрын

It is

They all looked so stoic

Really great photos. And the background music really folorn and suggests such a sense loss and cultural decay, particularly with the hint of "The Last Samurai'

Stupendous pictures!!!Perla.

Being a warrior requires so much. I am so ashamed of this generation. I never fought in actual battles, but I fight everyday in other ways. I welcomed all the hardships I experienced. I feel awake and alive. The samurai reminds me of what I must do to continue living.

Excelent!!! Bushido and the samurai spiriti are present in each honorable act of life ..Forever.. I think that the music is the soundtrack of "the last samurai"

Magnificent. Thank You

Amazing snapshots of the past. Priceless.

These men and women who thought themselves forgotten, had carried on in spirit through a photo to the 21st century.

lovely video, amazing photos... where can I get the music that you put on it? who is the artist?

Excellent video and caption.

thats awesome...lot's of respect!keep going!

Japanese Cultural sense are so deep. This is gold.

Sublime imagery and music.. You do your culture a great honour Long may the people remember the Ancestors .🙏

I don't think anything could be more scary than facing a samurai in full war garb.

awesome post !!

この様な写真が残っていようとは…、本当に驚きです。

Nice music, good stuff, thanks!

There’s also a photo of the young Fukuzawa Yukichi somewhere in the middle of the video. What a great man! Btw, he looks so different in his later years wearing a western suit.

Big respect for japanese culture!One of a kind!!

watching this put a sadness in my heart so great that i wish i could live back then instead of now

breathtaking

Although these are the best Samurai photo collection I'e ever seen, but some of the photos here are "Yrarase" (slung), which means that the photos are taken by dressing up ordinary people or actors in Samurai clothes. Many of them look like real Samurai. You can usually tell by their hair style. Also, I noticed that the real Samurais have very sharp and majestic look in their face. I noticed that one of the samurais is the Last Shogun!

I had Tears all built up. I was so filled with emotion when I watched this Video. Osu! Fookes Renshi

Powerful Images.

hey quite interesting. By having photographs we can feel a sense of continuity between the present and the past japan. If we had photography earlier...

Japan is role model for asian countries....love from INDIA...❤❤🇮🇳🇯🇵🇮🇳🇯🇵🇮🇳🇯🇵🇮🇳

muy lindo fue poder ver esas fotos! gracias!

Sakamoto Ryoma forever!

侍ってか、武士だよね。 samurai...my grandpa had NIHONTOU I have touched it.

@0kurokawa177

8 жыл бұрын

武士の中に侍って階級があるんですよ

thanks. it was educational in a way.

Nice photograph

music from "the last samurai"

Beautiful...

Excelente fotos! Rostos muito expressivos.

I really enjoyed that. I am amazed at how tanned some japanese were back then as compared to now. Even in the pictures you can tell they were man of small stature but possessed big auras. The picture @ 3:10 looks like he could have been Kenshin Uesugi from Samurai Legends :-)

With due deference to all, I have submitted a video response - it is a clip of a demonstration of Moto-ha Yoshin Ryu Bujutsu - a koryu martial art whose grandmaster is a samurai and can show it's lineage back to samurai times. I hope those of you who appreciate Japanese culture enjoy it.

Wow ...that was beautiful!! all the pictures plus the words at the end .... the musical theme ....all of that transported me to a distant past .... were honor meant so much than life!! What a way to live!

Is the hand coloring accurate to the colors worn at the time?

thank You for this, outstanding photographies... 0:51 ^-^

---Respect---

Amazing photographs....i think there is one photograph that shows a hara-kiri being performed.....

. Samurai isnt dead. there is still one samurai living on the hills of hollywood and his name is tom cruise.

@gtoma2000

5 жыл бұрын

that's why we call him the last samurai...

@fauxmanchu8094

5 жыл бұрын

Hoopman 05 😜😜😝😝

@michaelrunnels7660

5 жыл бұрын

Scientology Samurai

@bobbygig4362

4 жыл бұрын

hahahahhaaha

@striker_1120

4 жыл бұрын

White savior smh

Great warriors... RESPECT :)

Awesome!!! 5 stars!!!

What a nice video

Its amazing to see the last of the real samurai. It must have been a terribly sad day for Japan once they were gone.

@Toyotomi what music is this?

At 2:54 there is what appears to be a "seppuku" being played out- for those not familiar with what a seppuku or harakiri is, is when a samauri mortally wounds himself with a blade for honor and a fellow samurai stands behind and with a sword, takes his head off- in this pic blood is seen gushing from the upper abdomen...

Interesting. At around 1:43 it looks like a person dressed in white and kneeling. Looks like the middle guy is reading something like charges or an order to commit Seppuku. Then at 2:56 a different guy dressed in white with what looks like bleeding in the stomach area and another samurai standing behind him getting ready to administer the finishing blow. Two witnesses and one with an order (?) for Seppuku tucked in his clothing while the guy on the end has this 'oh my god' look on his face. You have to wonder if these were two real acts of Seppuku or just portrayals of the act for the camera. Creepy none the less.

@MaxWolop

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it’s real

Beautiful

Thease men look so proud.I could only wish we today could feel and be so proud of who we are.Sadly that way of honor,dignity,pride,is all lost into history,never to return.

@alexanderhranov1534

4 жыл бұрын

" that way of honor,dignity,pride" is still alive today at the places in this world where freedom is still more than a word..

This legend video on youtube...everyone didnt know it.

Did you see the Naginatas? they would cut a horse down in one stroke. I love the Japanese weapons. So simple..yet elegant and functional! It's because of living on an Island isolated with limited resources that makes them so efficient.

最後の戊辰戦争に挑む侍の、眼光の鋭さに背筋がぞっとした。現代人では考えられない壮絶な人生を送ってきたのだろうな

@user-ce9fj1ui3n

6 жыл бұрын

こういった仏頂面の武士の写真が多いのは、単に後世に見られる物だから威厳良く写っとこうという武士の見栄からきてますよ。実際に、近藤勇のはそういう理由の写真です。武士ってのは見栄つまり名誉が重要ですからね。武士は食わねど高楊枝です。だからこういう写真見てあなたがその様に感じているのは、武士の思うつぼですね。

@user-hk7ki1rl3v

4 жыл бұрын

無限の牽制 お前その当時の武士に聞いたの？ 憶測で語んなよアホウヨ笑笑

Nice

pretty nice!

I wonder: is 2:55 the "sepuku" ritual or just actin' scene?...

Hello can you tellme the music's name? Thankyou

Can you believe that these were the last faces of the "Old World". And having everyone with their own experiance, tradition, and story they've seen! It's like one of those moments "They were just right there! ='(

yes, they are edited now. But back then, some photographers used watercolor and inks to make color acents or give more contrast to pictures. Like in nowadays photocorrection.

Excelente!

touching.

I think "Hojo Ujimasa" not "Ujisama"...

The Sir of 2:08 pic looks like a very nice and friendly Sir :').

Never argue with an idiot. They will pull you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Incredible photos, its like looking several centuries into the past, I wonder what these men would think of the Japan they would see today.

To what you call moribund, I call it beautiful. How I wish that society nowadays took honor as seriously as these gentlemen.

Very cool

me impresiono mucho....honor y disciplina....que mas se puede pedir.

Its to bad there were no cameras earlier then this, I would love to see pictures of Europe's Warriors and Knights

man i love this ITS A FAV 5/5

and builds new ones. The combination of Japan and US story telling created Kurasawa's 7 Samuri movie, using US western idiom and Japan's samurai traditions. What a wonderful story!

Amazing pictures! Looks like they were playing Zelda at 0:25! Just kidding, I love this culture!

they was beaultiful, magnificent warriors

powerful..

So true I feel exactly the same way

花は桜木人は武士; "The cherry blossom Among flowers , the warrior Among Men"; “Среди цветов - вишня, среди людей - самурай”........ I ♥ Japan !!!