Samurai quickly draw their swords， commoners are easily killed．．． The Japan portrayed in “Shogun” is not realistic． It is the fault of the media that only praises it．
I think this is an incredible achievement. “Shogun,” produced and starring Hiroyuki Sanada, won 18 awards including Best Drama at the Emmy Awards, an American entertainment award that ranks alongside the Academy Awards for films, the Grammy Awards for music, and the Tony Awards for theater. (Omitted) What bothered me the most was how the Japanese of that era were portrayed as very barbaric, and the environment surrounding them as very filthy. In “Shogun,” samurai kill commoners with great ease. The scene shows a man drawing his sword and chopping off someone’s head on a whim, which has been praised as a fitting depiction of “unstable times.” However, although there were exceptions, generally, samurai did not easily kill commoners or indiscriminately abuse people who had drifted ashore. In any case, there were many situations in which samurai were eager to draw their swords. The moment they sensed even the slightest lack of courtesy, they would all draw their swords at once, even if they were in the castle of a great ruler of the country. However, although not as severe as in the Edo period, even in this period, samurai rarely actually drew their swords, except in special cases where there was no other solution than to cut. Furthermore, if one drew a sword inside the castle of the most powerful man in the country, one would likely be sentenced to death. In addition, there was a scene where Kashiwagi Yabuju, who was based on Honda Masanobu, played by Asano Tadanobu, fell off a cliff and drew his sword in the sea and attempted to commit seppuku. It seems that Kashiwagi was fascinated by death. Indeed, during this period, seppuku was well established as a samurai-like way to die, and it was considered more honorable to cut one’s stomach open rather than be killed by the enemy. However, this was merely a decision made when one was in a desperate situation, and death was not an end in itself. The treatment of the crew of the ship that was stranded is also depicted in a very brutal manner. Some people were boiled in a cauldron, and John Blackthorn (Anjin), who was based on William Adams, was beaten and even urinated on. At one point, the crew were pelted with a liquid mixed with blood and viscera. However, I don’t think that the Japanese at that time would have acted so barbarically. It is recorded that when the Liefde, carrying Adams, drifted ashore in what is now Usuki City, Oita Prefecture, the local people treated the weakened crew member, gave him food, and took care of him. Also, if we go into a minor point, why is it that, despite all the money spent on it, the stone walls of Osaka Castle from that era, which were made from piled-up natural stones, are depicted as if they were just square blocks stacked on top of each other? Furthermore, judging someone in a dry landscape garden can only be seen as a confusion between a rock garden and the magistrate’s office’s white sandbank. For these reasons, there are many aspects of Shogun’s depiction of Japan that cannot be described as realistic. I imagine that while they were particular about portraying the real Japan in terms of the manners, gestures, and sword fighting, they probably didn’t have time to research historical accuracy. More in the source.
>>1 >Samurai kill commoners very easily. That’s true. This is from the end of the Heian period to the early Kamakura period. I think things calmed down after the Goseibai Shikimoku was published.
>>7 Exactly. The only people who were treated like humans were aristocrats, samurai, wealthy merchants, and religious people, but even then they fought and killed each other.
>>7 There’s a ton of evidence that there was no such thing as a “cut-off” system, but the reason it caused such a fuss in Tosa when a high-ranking samurai did it is because it wasn’t something that happened every day.
>>9 Maybe they’re talking about the Namamugi Incident, but in that incident, he was on horseback and despite repeated warnings, didn’t dismount, and got close to Shimazu Hisamitsu, so it was decided that it would be bad to approach him like that. In modern terms, it would be like a suspicious person approaching a VIP guarded by SPs being arrested.
Well, I guess the majority of low IQ Western white people will become more and more prejudiced towards the history of the East and Japan. There are too many idiots who can’t tell the difference between entertainment and historical fact. The same goes for China and Korea, which are considered to be part of Asia.
Tell me about the warlord with leprosy. Apparently, it’s impossible for Otani to reveal his true colors in a storytelling performance. I don’t actually know lol.
In reality, Kirisute Gomen was essentially a murder case, so unless there were some very special circumstances, the samurai had to commit seppuku. If the other person was a commoner, the rules were even stricter.
Period dramas have a lot of strange depictions. People in the Edo period have beards even though it was strictly forbidden to have facial hair. They sell Chinese cabbage, which shouldn’t have existed in the Edo period. There are tables and chairs in izakayas.
It’s mostly just imagination based on pictures and writings about the Sengoku period, so people who make such definitive statements are really annoying. I wonder if you’ve seen it.
In the Kamakura period, a certain samurai ordered that a severed head must always be kept in his mansion, and he would kill any vagrants, monks, or others who passed by his house with a bow and place their heads in the mansion’s garden every few days. The man in question was Hatakeyama Shigetada, who is said to have been a man of great character according to various stories.
The heads in Kitano movies are probably real. Nobunaga was just a thug who happened to win and rise to power. Warlords kept fighting each other. Commoners rummaged through the bodies of dead soldiers.
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