A maniac-level deep dive into two of the most important conflicts in the history of Japan's samurai: the Former Nine Years War (前九年合戦・1051-1062) and the Later Three Years War (後三年合戦・1083-1087), which were both fought in northern Japan (the Tohoku region) between the legendary Minamoto warrior clan and a pair of local families who were either samurai, barbarians, or both, depending on who you ask.

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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
2:02 Opening Comments
5:48 Former Nine Years War - Background
11:10 Former Nine Years War - Early Stages
28:08 Former Nine Years War - Middle Stages
37:20 Former Nine Years War - Climax and Aftermath
45:56 Intervening Years
49:29 Later Three Years War - Early Stages
57:30 Later Three Years War - Middle Stages and Climax
1:15:55 Later Three Years War - Aftermath
1:19:55 Closing Comments

Information Sources:
前九年・後三年合戦と兵の時代（樋口知志）
古代東北史（新野直吉）
岩手県の歴史（細井計・伊藤博幸・菅野文夫・鈴木宏）
武士の誕生（関幸彦）
ビジュアル日本の歴史５６・５７

Music:
Itou Keisuke (https://dova-s.jp/)
- 津軽三味線独奏　貝殻節
- 三味線独奏・雅
- 三味線独奏・間
- 三味線二重奏　迫
- 花
- 炭坑節
Hashimami (ハシマミ) (https://dova-s.jp/)
- 面影
- 来迎
- 月読命
- 呪イノ舞
- 鬼火
Noru (のる) (https://dova-s.jp/)
- 徒桜
MAKOOTO (https://dova-s.jp/)
- 箏のジングル
Kyusu (キュス) (https://dova-s.jp/)
- おキツネさま
Keido Honda (https://dova-s.jp/)
- 破られていた約束～A Promise Had Been Broken
Kochi (https://dova-s.jp/)
- 夜桜ひらり朧月
Fukagawa (https://dova-s.jp/)
- 薄雲
Hurt Record (www.hurtrecord.com)
- 和人
SHW (https://shw.in/)
- Kashiwagi
And a song called "uﾋ_320" by an unknown SoundCloud user. If anyone can identify this track please let me know! It was marked for royalty-free use when I downloaded it, but I've now lost the composer data...

Images from:
The National Diet Library Digital Collections (https://dl.ndl.go.jp/)
The Waseda University Library (https://www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotensek...)
The Tokyo Metropolitan Library (https://www.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/)
Colbase (https://colbase.nich.go.jp/?locale=ja)
Penn Libraries (http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/fish...)
The Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works (http://kotenseki.nijl.ac.jp/?ln=ja)
The Hiroshima University Library (http://dc.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/text/)
Photo AC (https://www.photo-ac.com/)
Illust AC (https://www.ac-illust.com/)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The British Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Kyoto University, National Institute of Japanese Literature
The Chusonji Website (https://www.chusonji.or.jp/)
Cultural Heritage Online (https://bunka.nii.ac.jp/)
Flickr user "vlasta2"
Some images from books I own or borrowed from the library (all 2d photos of out-of-copyright artwork)
Unlabeled photos and video were all taken by me (Buyuuden Japanese History)