Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
The Kamakura Shogunate is set to fall and the Ashikaga will come to rise as a new ambitious Emperor, Go-Daigo, plunges Japan into a new age of war! This is the finale of the updated Setting the Stage series, as now, the stage is set for the eruption of the Sengoku period that is to come...
Setting the Stage UPDATED playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrlMflnRScAL3pSsBBGR4SirHKoEg4HOz
The original title for this video in the old Setting the Stage series was "The Divide."
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Sources Used:
"State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan" by Thomas Conlan
"Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales" by Paul Varley
"The Taiheiki" translated by Helen Craig McCullough
"Legends of the Samurai" by Hiroaki Sato
"A History of the Samurai" by Jonathan López-Vera
"A History of Japan" by R.H.P. Mason and J.G. Caiger
"Samurai Battles" by Michael Sharpe
Additional information found through the Japanese Wiki Corpus
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Music from:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Artwork:
Classical art, which in most cases can be considered public domain.
Art from Osprey Publications
Other modern artist renditions and photos as well as photos from Wikipedia, if you see your work in this video please contact me so that I can give you proper credit!
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Social Media:
Facebook: facebook.com/theshogunateyoutube
Twitter: twitter.com/ShogunateThe
Support the channel on Patreon! patreon.com/theshogunateyt?fan_landing=true
#Samurai #History #Japan
The Kamakura Shogunate is set to fall and the Ashikaga will come to rise as a new ambitious Emperor, Go-Daigo, plunges Japan into a new age of war! This is the finale of the updated Setting the Stage series, as now, the stage is set for the eruption of the Sengoku period that is to come...
Setting the Stage UPDATED playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrlMflnRScAL3pSsBBGR4SirHKoEg4HOz
The original title for this video in the old Setting the Stage series was "The Divide."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sources Used:
"State of War: The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan" by Thomas Conlan
"Warriors of Japan as Portrayed in the War Tales" by Paul Varley
"The Taiheiki" translated by Helen Craig McCullough
"Legends of the Samurai" by Hiroaki Sato
"A History of the Samurai" by Jonathan López-Vera
"A History of Japan" by R.H.P. Mason and J.G. Caiger
"Samurai Battles" by Michael Sharpe
Additional information found through the Japanese Wiki Corpus
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Music from:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Artwork:
Classical art, which in most cases can be considered public domain.
Art from Osprey Publications
Other modern artist renditions and photos as well as photos from Wikipedia, if you see your work in this video please contact me so that I can give you proper credit!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Social Media:
Facebook: facebook.com/theshogunateyoutube
Twitter: twitter.com/ShogunateThe
Support the channel on Patreon! patreon.com/theshogunateyt?fan_landing=true
#Samurai #History #Japan
