Immersive Design
  • Introduction
  • Course Program
  • Showcase
  • References
  • Class 0-2 Bootcamp
    • The Last Great Battle of the Samurai
    • Class 0: Sensing
    • Class 1: Design Tools
    • Class 2: Evaluation Basics
  • Spatial
    • Spatial Rationales: Food for Thought
    • Spatial Intimacy: Public Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Social Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Personal Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Intimate Space
    • Spatial Form: Proportion & Rhythm
    • Spatial Flow: Movement & Direction
    • Spatial Sensing: Sensory Expressions
    • Spatial Sound: Edible Flavor
  • Embodiment
    • Embodiment: Kinesthetic Space
    • Embodiment: Gestural Kinesphere
    • Embodiment: Bodily Kinesphere
    • Embodiment: Harmony & Balance
    • Embodiment: Affordances & Microinteractions
  • Evaluation
    • Evaluation Topics: Immersion & Presence
    • Evaluation Topics: Emotional Immersion
    • Evaluation Topics: Body-Ownership
    • Evaluation Topics: User Tasks
    • Evaluation Topics: Navigation
    • Evaluation Topics: Wayfinding
    • Evaluation Topics: Human-System Control
    • Evaluation Topics: Feedback, feedforward & force feedback
  • Methods
    • Evaluation Methods: Setting up an Experiment
    • Evaluation Methods: Quantitative & Qualitative
    • Evaluation Methods: Materials
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  • The Last Great Battle of the Samurai was Fought at Osaka Castle
  • 1. Text & Video of historical overview
  • 2. Painting: 17th century overview of the battle
  • 3. Mapping
  • 4. Models / Mockups
  • 5. Figurines: action scenes
  • 6. Showcase representations
  • 7. Portraits & Characters
  • 8. Viewing Box
  • 9. Film & Animation
  • Game
  • Role-play
  • Virtual Reality

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The Last Great Battle of the Samurai

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The Last Great Battle of the Samurai in 1614 at Osaka castle.

Read the story of The Last Battle and draw on paper:

  • Timeline of events that are important.

  • Main characters.

  • Setting (castle and surroundings).

  • Characteristics and perspectives that might be interesting for creating a story.

  • Whatever else that excites you to do something with this historical event.

Briefing

Create a virtual reality STORY for tourists, that is exploratory, informative and as truthful to the events as it can get.

Requirements

People need to learn and experience:

  • Who was involved and why this great battle started. (Ieyasu and Hideyori)

  • Where; it needs to provide an idea of the setting of the battle in the Osaka-area.

  • Samurai-armor.

  • How; the sensory experience of this battle, or the samurai (the SCENT-TACTILE experience).

  • How; it needs to have a mystic feel. For inspiration, see , , .

It should:

  • Not be harmful, but not be too safe either.

  • Not be a game. Not Bruce Lee style. No Quentin Tarantino. No game, no levels, but it needs to be playful and can be multi-player.

  • Not be an experience full of slaughter or horrendous activity.

The Last Great Battle of the Samurai was Fought at Osaka Castle

Historical event: 04 June 1615 Forces under Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu took Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasted nearly 250 years.

1. Text & Video of historical overview

2. Painting: 17th century overview of the battle

3. Mapping

4. Models / Mockups

5. Figurines: action scenes

6. Showcase representations

7. Portraits & Characters

8. Viewing Box

9. Film & Animation

The Last Great Battle is the subject of many films, such as:

  • Historical drama "Ōsaka-jō monogatari" (engl. The Tale of Osaka Castle, UK).

  • Some other English titles: "Daredevil in the Castle", "Devil in the Castle", "Osaka Castle Story") (1961).

  • Tai Kato's musical film Brave Records of the Sanada Clan (1963).

Game

  • The fall of Osaka is the final level in the Samurai Warriors series, also serving as the climax of Hattori Hanzō's, Ieyasu's and Yukimura's stories. Called the "Osaka Campaign", it compiles all the battles of the Winter and Summer Campaigns.

  • In the computer game Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun, the siege of Osaka castle is the setting of the first mission.

Role-play

Virtual Reality

I did not find any 'Siege of Osaka' experiences, but of course there is a Godzilla VR:

One of the oldest newsprints sold during this period, depicting the fall of Osaka Castle:

Map Japan, 1595

The Loyal 47 Ronin (1958)
The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons (2000)
Logo1615: Four Hundred Years Ago the Last Great Battle of the Samurai was Fought at Osaka Castle | History.infoHistory.info
LogoDonjon of Osaka Castle
3D model and FLOOR PLAN of OSAKA castle
(played at Osaka Castle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC7p6nrq1Dswww.youtube.com
https://blog.gaijinpot.com/400th-anniversary-osaka-castle/
social hierarchy of Japan at that time
Siege of Osaka, 17th century Japanese painting
https://blog.gaijinpot.com/400th-anniversary-osaka-castle/
http://portfolios.scad.edu/gallery/20393415/Siege-of-Osaka-Series
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1Azfh8EVQ8A/U5Np7_MdWDI/AAAAAAAAFzM/mekZZaSPJ5Q/s0/japan_day_14_06.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-1Azfh8EVQ8A/U5Np7_MdWDI/AAAAAAAAFzM/mekZZaSPJ5Q/s0/japan_day_14_06.jpg
Samurai Exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e6/58/f7/e658f76e5903666409579b88a891fc6b.jpg
http://portfolios.scad.edu/gallery/20393415/Siege-of-Osaka-Series
Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1601
A 19th-century samurai with a chonmage (typical Japanese topknot haircut)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mrc-Zis9KIwww.youtube.com
LogoゴジラVR - VR ZONE OSAKA - VR ZONE