A warlord made up a cute story about a fox to convince people to help relocate his castle

There was an anime about this, and I loved it... I believe it to be true. My dog looks very fox like and he's very beautiful, if I was a Japanese castle maker I would make one for my dog too ❤️🦊

Unrelated, but the words "Akai's Moving Castle" popped into my head while listening to this and I laughed to myself. Thought I'd share.

God I love just making up stories because it’d be cool or memorable

Just build shit guys

Politics, am I right? 😉

Old Sarum relocated to Salisbury in England is equally nuts. The main reason seems to be they’ve got way more money than sense.

Wow, could you make a video about kitsune lore in Japan? I'm making a web comic and need the research for it. I only know what they show us in anime in the west, lol. I need more deets. I need ALLL the deets.

I love watching u maaan.

If the pond surrounded the majority of the new castle, it would be much easier to defend (assuming the pond is deep enough to make it difficult to cross) just a tiny strip of land rather than a large space.

What, wasn’t there food-no-jutsu?

Sounding just about right😅

I'm gonna show my appreciation by making you build a castle 😂😂😂

When a Kitsune tells you to do something, you just obey. There is no further arguing. Shogunai.

Please talk about the history of yobai.

The beard stroking is perfectly old man 😂

This was a period of intense warfare between tons of conflicting lords. You needed your people to believe that you could survive or they wouldn’t support you. If they were not confident that you would survive, farmers would be less willing to pay tribute in the form of taxes and corvee labor, and they might hold out on you or even leave for other domains. If your soldiers lacked confidence in your ability to survive, they would not fight their best, they might leave for other domains, and recruitment would be difficult. Having the gods on your side would inspire confidence.

Fox-san is funny lol

As a Babymetal fan, I'm all for divine foxes.

The shrine persists even if the guy, who may or may not have just made up it all, does not… there’s some poetry in this

That's beautiful❤
The war is gone, the shrine still stands

One of the things I do love about Japan is that there are all these little micro historical sites that tell tales like this just everywhere. You can't go down the street without running into a shrine, or a statue of some kind and in the cities at least, half of them have a plaque that you can read and it's pretty neat!

It took 12 years but we finally figured out what the fox said. "Build a castle across the pond bro, it will be super lit".

Honestly the new spot only seems better if either there's enemy forces in the south, or they fear the river being poisoned, otherwise the other position has water on almost all sides to prevent ground troops.

Someone tell me how many shrines Japan has and the ratio of land area of shrines to residential areas.

“Boss… we already built the castle, you don’t need to justify- “

“No no no, we NEED to build the shrine”

*He wants to relicate it again
‘ but then I saved this other red fox ..’

It does look better for fishing in that location at the inlet/outlet

what a tail....

Those stories are insane and amazing at the same time. Thanks to this guy I'm starting to love japanese history!

nah nah..i bet he got like 20 wives(im suppose to say 2 but come on)
and he put 10 on one castle and another 10 on the other castle
...

I definitely misheard that as Akai Tiramisu. Thanks to your videos, I know that Red Italian Dessert would not be the worst name for a boy.

I once saved a 3 tail fox she's became a wife of my general xd hehehe

thanks, now I will never look at Shizuku in DOAXVV the same way.

Wasn't the legend of the fox around tricking and deceiving people? Dude got tricked into moving his whole castle for nothin'.

I love your cadence and the way you formulate the stories, your humor is very on point and I can’t get enough! “Samurai may be strong….but they can’t make food!”
And “Peasants: Because you want to make it more believable? Terumitsu: Because it’s so true!” 😂

Moving the Castle to the bend in the river reduces the lines of attack for besiegers.

I believe him.

And politicians are making up stories to justify their actions to this day…😅

Assuming that the blue is a river of some sorts then yes actually, building it there is a better and more strategic place

I mean who knows, maybe a fox did do a weird tail drag thing and the guy interpreted it as an omen. Maybe the embellishments weren't to make the story more believable to appease his desires, but on behalf of the fox he believed to be delivering an omen. People interpret weird instances in nature in all sorts of ways, Just look at Greek and Roman religion, whoo boy, everything is an omen or a sign to those guys.

Ah good'ol: No, no, god told me to do it!!!

Anyone can just say anything

From the intro, I thought this was going to be Always Comes and Sleeps, and I was already trying to do the math on when that tale was from 😅

The funny thing is, in English "Obiki Castle" immediately sounds like the idiom "dragging your feet"....

And this has been another episode of... Crazy Japanese History

That fits the deceiving nature of a fox lol

From the map he provided, the river provides a U-shaped natural barrier. From the south. So I don't see why not.

Akamitsu made it.

"Fine lord, I guess we'll build your castle... Again. Can't let the foxes down or whatever"

the air beard stroke took me out 😂