Your Life as Every Rank of a Samurai

You start in 1575, knee-deep in a rice field, with a borrowed spear six meters long. You end with two swords, a castle you lost over a single wall, and no master left to serve. This is every rank of a samurai: the farmer-spearman, the gunner at Nagashino, the head inspection, the horse guard holding an umbrella, the betrayal at Sekigahara, the lord drowning in debt, and the ronin. Which rank would you have stopped at? Tell me in the comments. 0:00 Intro 0:28 Rank 1: The Ashigaru 1:36 Rank 2: The Gunner 2:47 Rank 3: The Squad Leader 3:43 Rank 4: The Samurai 5:00 Rank 5: The Horse Guard 6:00 Rank 6: The Commander 6:58 Rank 7: The Castellan 7:44 Rank 8: The Daimyo 8:34 Rank 9: The Shogun's Guest 9:33 Rank 10: The Ronin 10:57 Which rank would you stop at? Inspired by real events: the arrival of firearms at Tanegashima (1543), the Battle of Nagashino (1575), Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sword hunt (1588), the siege of Odawara (1590), the Battle of Sekigahara and Kobayakawa Hideaki's defection (1600), the Laws for the Military Houses (1615), Fukushima Masanori losing his domain over castle repairs (1619), and the alternate attendance system. "You" is a composite character; some details are simplified for storytelling. Visuals and narration created with AI-assisted tools. Script and character: Hoodie Guy. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Interloper", "Ossuary 6 - Air", "Impact Lento", "Despair and Triumph" #samurai #japan #history #everyrank #sengoku