Was Genghis Khan Secretly a Samurai?

If you know anything about samurai, you know about Minamoto no Yoshitsune, the legendary 12th-century commander who was betrayed by his half-brother, the first shogun to truly rule Japan, and forced to commit seppuku. But did you know that for centuries, serious historians argued he didn't really die, and fled up north instead? That legends from the Ainu, the native people of Hokkaido, may confirm this? And that these same legends suggest that he then made his way to Mongolia...a few years before another great military commander, with a similar appearance and skillset, emerged out of nowhere to conquer the steppe, then all of Asia? How true is this? And more importantly, what led people to believe it so fervently, especially in modern Japan? Who else might Minamoto no Yoshitsune have become after faking his death? Izuku Midoriya - https://torscabinet.com/stor [merch] Thimble the Doll -   / membership   [Patreon] D.B. Cooper - https://x.com/parsons_tor Yuzuru Hanyu -   / torscabinet   Tommy Wiseau -   / torscabinet   Le Loyon -   / tor.from.oregon   Sources & Further Info Suematsu Kencho's canonical version of the story: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i... Why did people believe this? https://www.scribd.com/document/95295... The use of Ainu legends to justify Japanese imperialism: https://read.dukeupress.edu/radical-h... Japan's strange relationship with Judaism: https://firstthings.com/the-japanese-... No AI was used at any step of the way in the making of this video, not even to summarize sources. Editing by the extraordinary Rory Pelzel, who last edited the Nugan Hand Bank video. You'll know the Pelzel Difference™!