Ashigaru - History And Combat

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snare yes oh my gosh back on my chalk yeah and I never once welcome back to my channel this is the Metatron speaking and today I'd like to get right to the topic I see garu because there are a lot of things to say so first of all what is a cigar do when I'm a Chicago is a foot soldier which works for the samurai class this is the easiest way or the broadest definition of this term uh she in Japanese means foot or leg in this case because we translated a foot or feet and guru comes from the adjectives karui which means light so light feet you [Music] so the first thing I'd like to say about them is that we need to understand that the figure and the importance and the usage and deployment of a she got have changed completely over time so this is the sort of evolution chart of the US ago so first of all we have peasant soldiers peasant foot soldiers which work for either they work for someone I ever said but there are sort of two kinds those who are loyal to some land owning samurai or those who have no particular loyalty and they basically work as mercenaries this is sort of the first kind of a cigar from this sort of unruly mercenary the ashigaru will rise [Music] now the educator will become a very important component if not the main component in feudal Japanese armies from the Moodle massive period onward and it is in the Sengoku Jidai that the ashigaru will form the backbone of all warring clans feudal Army now it is from the 14th century to the 16th century to be more specific that ashigaru actually start changing they gradually remove themselves from the sort of farmers class and they start becoming actual professional soldiers although this division is never 100% perfect and never 100% clear and I'll get back to that because of course you know the ninja stander is a very well structured and precise class system or sort of status pyramid if you will it is through order Nobunaga that they become actual paid professional soldiers because maybe somewhere part-time at the end of the day they were farmers and when they were cold they would be paid to work for as soldiers as infantry but you have to consider that the very early sort of mercenaries well we're not paid or they would be paid in loot as time will progress in some hyung or domains some asiago will actually attain the social status of samurai while in other places they won't now this is interesting because now I'd like to spend a few more words on this concept of social class social status which are actually starting to examine the sort of equipment and the sort of armor sort of weapons that they actually got to use them how to distinguish them from the actual samurai because you have to understand that in Japan you've got very structured organized the society now in this society for example you've got the bushy who are the samurai class ok all bushi are samurai the warrior class and then you've got the farmers ok and then you've got all the others so the farmers already have a recently reasonably high position in the social state of scale but the ashigaru are difficult to understand because if you think about it they are not some wood until until later periods of course as I said some will become somewhat I in some areas that will be considered somewhere but at first and for the majority of time as you would not summer day but that went off llamas are though and they start becoming professional soldiers so they sort of go in in between these two lines so a first day of farmers who also fight then they become warriors who also do well also peasants but then they will be touching this and when they do touch things and from that farmer position but they are still not some wood item not bushy they are in between they're a little bit outside the social structure this is how why in some areas probably they actually start to be considered somewhere and cast like lower samurai if you will so having said all this what about the weapons and now I'd like to begin from the armor because the weapon will be the things that actually will change the most but as far as armor is concerned well very typical of the ashigaru a sort of soldier is the gene Gaza the Jin Gaza is a this kind of had its typical of Asia is intuitive Justin normally when you imagine if you imagine it made of straw and that's the typical peasant sort of casa it's actually called Casa which is the same word for umbrella in Japanese but the Ginga is the same thing but made for for war so it's either made of iron sometimes steel and other times and ever well thought on that I should go to they go from being completely unarmored to being heavily armored so you go lots of different kinds of us Chicago as far as armor is concerned any will change over time and at the end of the day if you look at a fully armored I'll she got it you might think considering the values go a door or curious is go so they sometimes sometimes it don't have so D sometimes they do they might have hideout this or the police they might you know you look at them and you're like well hold on a minute they are almost armored the same way as a samurai but no in Sengoku Jidai as I said the uh she got have formed the backbone of the armies what this means is that we've got a certain number of samurai who are the elite sizes and then got a lot of as she guarded battles change from single combat to mast formation and this is why the source of armaments the source of armor and also the sort of weapon or we'll get back to the weapons in a moment the sort of armor that the ashigaru are wearing or we're wearing is munition quality mass-produced so you go mass production of curiosities that these a cigar would wear and that is very different from the sort of very specially tailored armor that some what I would wear both in Muromachi G die and earlier because in that case you would have a sort of old-fashioned armor armor for samurai although there are many different kinds and types Obama I will make it become prefer has been preparing a video where I discuss all different types of somewhere Miami but to just say quickly you have for example the OL euro of the summer and as you go could never wear nor even a sword all your way but even in the 16th century when you've got to say go so cool although it might look similar to the sort of armor that you go are wearing you have to consider that the level of quality would be very very different now moving to the weapons there she got in earlier times they would be armed with naginata yari sword and the bow the thing is though the training of soldiers to use a bowl or a you mean effectively takes a lot of time this invention here when in 1543 1643 the portuguese will bring the match look type Aquabus and these will be mass produced in Tanegashima and is why they're called Tanegashima tip or in japanese from the name of the island where these are that were these were literally mass-produced the daimyo or the warlords of Japanese or feudal Japan will arm the ashigaru with these because they're a lot easier to use and they require a lot less training than ago in fact although in earlier times you would have a ratio between a temple and you bow you would have a ratio of two against one in later periods you have a ratio of four against one now if you at this one though it's too decorated this is a samurai Tanegashima dead ball match looks like walk with us a Chicago type will be something like this a lot more playing if you will as these starts to be employed and as battles become more and more based on correct positioning of your gunners because of course these were given also to some where I keep this in mind when I hear people saying no this somebody would never use Tanegashima Tripos dishonorable in what planet because in Japanese warfare or the Nobunaga saw these he gave these two always to Samurai and ashigaru these made the difference the ashigaru in this situation the educator would be rigorously trained to hold ranks in face in the face of enemy fire but we want to see the importance of proper positioning of Chicago Gunners and of course uh manoa Gunners as well we can see we can go back to 1575 the Battle of nagashi no because this is a very important but in this battle we've got Tokugawa and other armies against the tequila war machine that's what we understand in the Sengoku Jidai this battle was a battle of giants that we have the strongest and most powerful and most dangerous warring clans of the time now this battle is where we see the importance and the efficacy of these in fact the Takeda clan the together war machine was based on heavy cavalry charges of a heavy samurai cavalry which normally would work perfectly but in this battle what we see we see constant waves of targeted cavalry charges which are completely sorted because of properly and intelligently positioned ashigaru gunners who just break the bone of the Takeda war machine they destroy the mounted samurai into pieces with these so to reiterate the ashigaru go from unwell trained mercenaries to rigorously trained professional soldiers and it is in edo jidai during time of peace that some area in summer if some uh Chicago would actually acquire the title or family well I never once I hope that you enjoyed this video it was a brief but detailed explanation on the UH she got if you want to know more about the achiara I couldn't make this into a series because there is a ton of things to say about this very interesting kind of soldier just as much as there is to say about the family really of course you forgot any requested like me to talk about a specific topic let me know in the comments below and remember the Metatron has spread its wings [Music] yeah Oh

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Keywords: Nobunaga, Japan, Oda, Samurai, Ashigaru, Combat, War, Takeda, japanese, metatron, super, hot, sexy, larp, roleplaying, manga, anime, history, warfare, nerd, nerdy, geek, geeky, d&d, fight, defense, movie, godzilla, firearms, rifle, pistol, gun

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Length: 12min 57sec (777 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 26 2017