The Revenge of the Soga Brothers (Soga Monogatari)

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The Tale of the Soga, a.k.a. the Soga Monogatari, is a medieval tale of Japanese revenge set at the beginning of Japan’s first period of samurai rule: the Kamakura Period (1192-1333). Join me as I explore the background of this tale, narrate the story itself, and showcase a small portion of the wealth of pre-modern and early modern images depicting it. Support the channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BuyuudenJapaneseHistory Support the channel with a t-shirt purchase: https://buyuuden-japanese-history.creator-spring.com/ Translation of the full story into modern Japanese: https://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1884370 TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 0:29 Background and explanation 4:14 The story 27:48 Closing thoughts Information Sources: 復讐の論理 (The Logic of Revenge) by Saeki Shin’ichi Fuji City’s official Soga Brothers pamphlet (https://www.city.fuji.shizuoka.jp/img14/fmervo000000rbkh-att/rn2ola000002kv5a.pdf) Basis of my translation of the tale: 少年日本お伽噺読本 (Main) 少年曽我兄弟 (Supplemental) (Both books from the National Diet Library Digital Collections) Image sources: The National Diet Library Digital Collections (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/) The Art Research Center (https://www.dh-jac.net/db1/books/search_portal.php) The Waseda University Library (https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/index.html) The British Museum (https://www.britishmuseum.org) The National Institute of Japanese Literature (https://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp) The Tokyo Metropolitan Library (https://archive.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/da/top) Colbase (https://colbase.nich.go.jp/) The Hiroshima University Library Textbook Collection Image Database (https://dc.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/text/) The Densho Digital Repository (https://ddr.densho.org/) Twitter User Sayonosuke, who posted the entirety of the 1936 Kodansha Soga Brothers picture book (https://twitter.com/sayonosuke) Music/sound effects: The National Diet Library Digital Collections (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/) (Traditional music) 効果音ラボ (https://soundeffect-lab.info/) VSQplus (https://vsq.co.jp/plus/sound/category/samurai_japan/) Hip-hop beats produced by me (Buyuuden Japanese History)