Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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History of Japanese castles of the Sengoku Jidai. Buy Assassin’s Creed Shadows (https://ubi.li/rL6YI) and get the Awaji expansion! Explore a mysterious island, face deadly foes, master the Bō weapon, unlock new gear and abilities in 10+ hours of additional content.

In the full video (youtu.be/cjxHpKWIdfk) we bring to life the history of Japanese castles using gameplay from Assassin's Creed Shadows. We begin with a broad overview of the history of fortifications in ancient Japan. This began early on with the fortification of temples and noble homes. Yet it would primarily be in the late Heian period of the 11th century that a particular style of construction emerged known as the Yamashiro (or hill castle). The basic idea was to create terraces atop hills and mountains and then reinforce them with interconnected baileys. From then on, these fortifications would get increasingly large, covering entire mountains in intricate killing fields. Eventually the greatest of these would be so massive that they had to be moved down into the plains.

Sources:
"Samurai Armies of the Sengoku Period Vol II" by Till Weber
"An Encyclopedia of Japanese Castles" by William De Lange

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