45 years researching a rural Japanese village - understanding changes in cultural identity in Japan

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

If for you want to know more information about Joy Hendry and her research in the village: www.extremispublishing.com/an-affair-with-a-village.html

[@Suikaiswatermelon]

What a fascinating documentary! It's amazing how Hendry was able to become part of this village and witnessing its people's growth, from being poor to having their own business. The part where Hendry told us how Atsushi was just two years old when she came and now has grown up and even has his own child really touched me T_T This video made me realize once again how life is a wonderful journey full of surprises :)

[@joyhendry3397]

Thank you for your comment. I'm glad you liked the video -- maybe as much as I enjoyed making it!

[@Suikaiswatermelon]

Joy Hendry yes, I really enjoyed it! I also have your book as my Japanese class’ learning material. Thank you for sharing your experiences ^_^

[@TiaMurchieBeyma]

In just 45 minutes (one per year), a wonderful glimpse of continuity and change, but ALSO so many examples of anthropological tools, perspectives, data sharing, and respect for informants. Love the title, too! I'm so grateful that the Hendry, Kumagae, and other families were able to do this project. Thank you for sharing.

[@joyhendry3397]

Thank you for your comment -- my son did choose the length to reflect the number of years, well spotted!!

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Awesome Tia, thank you for your feedback and encouragment it means a lot! we hadnt noticed it is a year a minute, thats brilliant, thanks for pointing that out. We are very happy you enjoyed it!

[@Hrglebleh]

Wonderful. It was nice to see the before and after of some of the places. Very informative. Thank you for the video.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thank you in glad you enjoyed it!

[@joyhendry3397]

Thank you for your comment, Lancee, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

[@TheNaturePlug]

really enjoyed watching this. great to see people from different worlds keep in touch for 45 years. Great upload hope to see more.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

I'm glad u enjoyed it 😁

[@sakyuuman91]

That was a great video. Thank you for sharing it here. As someone finishing up a graduate degree, I appreciate the way culture is addressed here and how it showcases the powerful ways in which research can touch large ecologies. I'd love to learn more, especially through something like this or a video ethnography, but for now I'll settle on Dr. Hendry's publications. I'm also excited about the power of this film and wish more research could be experienced and lived through like this.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thank you, I'm glad this is helpful to you hopefully we will be able to make some more films soon. If you know anyone who would like to support the creation of new videos please link them to our patreon, link in the channel banner

[@joyhendry3397]

Thanks for your comment, Sakyuuman, I'm glad you enjoyed the video, and I wish you all the best in finding more video ethnography. There should be lots out there, but maybe you can make some too?

[@mushroomsaremagic]

Would love to see Joy Hendry in more Docs

[@darkvirgil77]

Very informative, thank you. It is a wonderful video

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video

[@joyhendry3397]

Thanks, darkvirgil, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[@JocelynKM]

A really interesting film. The initial research was fascinating, but actually it's the coming back every few years and adding to the knowledge, as seeing the changes in village life, that make it extra valuable. My brother lived in Yokoma in the 80s as the only Western employee of Furukawa and I visited him in 1989, so watching this film was very interesting to me.

[@joyhendry3397]

Thank you for your comment -- glad you enjoyed it!

[@advancedenglishlessons5967]

Splendid documentary, thoroughly enjoyable and fascinating to see field work in action over such a long period of time in Japan

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

awesome, thank you for watching

[@DW-tc6du]

It's a great documentary. It helped me learn new things as a Japanology student. Prof, you seem like a splendid, very hardworking person. Thank you for your work.

[@joyhendry3397]

Thank you for your comment, good luck wiht your studies!

[@sumanchakrabarty1449]

Wonderful! I just loved it! Speech less! I think this is one of the important documentaries for the students of Anthropology. So organized and well planned before 45 years. I have learned a lot! I feel very much fortunate that I saw this documentary and I promise to share this video to my students. My daughter also loved it! Thanks a lot. Take care Professor Hendry!

[@joyhendry3397]

Thank you for your positive comments. Much appreciated!

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Hi Suman, that's awesome to hear, and thank you for your feedback and encouragment, and especially for sharing it with your students, that makes us very happy..... its great your daughter loved as well, brilliant! thanks again and best wishes!

[@sumanchakrabarty1449]

@@LeafofLifeWorld Thanks for the appreciating notes! You people also deserve it. Making film for fieldwork like this is a valuable source for future students who will show the passion in doing fieldwork too at the beginning of their career! Once again thanks for whole team to make this documentary so perfect! Hope to get more.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

@@sumanchakrabarty1449 Thank you Suman, yes, precisly, we wanted to show what filedwork involves, that was our intention, so what you say makes us very happy to hear, its very encouraging,.Thanks for your kind words and thoughtful responce, I will pass it on to the rest of the team who will be very happy. THANK YOU!

[@kiritnaik3099]

Joy Hendry please Be Vegan and switch on raw food stop cook food for better until 120 years of age

[@GPWitteveen]

Would that anthropology colleagues in all parts of Japan, indeed around the world -- anglophone or Languages-Other-Than-English -- could create similar capstone documentaries of their long relationship to a place and the people and ideas there. Kudos for the value to all viewers, now and in future: villagers themselves, future ethnographers and documentarians, city Japanese with little opportunity or awareness of rural Kyushu, Japanese wishing to practice their English listening, non-specialists, and also the many social scientists keen on comparative studies to this.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thank you for your thoughtful response, we have noted all your points and will explore this further. Thank you!

[@billydemontibus5860]

What a lovely, insightful film! It's a small corner of the world I was lucky enough to see first-hand many years ago, and this brought back memories. It also made me stop and think about the value of building abiding connections with places where people 'think differently to oneself'. Bring more anthropology to the public! Love the soundtrack too - where can I hear more from The Pink Plasma Project?

[@joyhendry3397]

Thanks, Billy deMontibus, I appreciate your comment, and I am sure Leaf of LIfe will let you know more about The Pink Plasma Project

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

thanks for the feedback and encouragment Billy, we are glad you enjoyed it!

[@MrJason005]

Very interesting! I came across this video on a subreddit about studying Japanese since I'm trying to learn the language. I'm Greek, and this village reminded me of my Grandma's village in Greece near Thebes. It's a similarly small village there, and it mostly grows grapes for wine (the winery there is recognised worldwide and has many awards). I saw many parallels between the village of Kurosuchi and my Grandma's village (Παλιοπαναγιά aka Άσκρη).

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thank you for sharing this with us. There alot of places that have similarities everywhere, when it comes to rural life each person is connected to the land and has a role within their community where ever they maybe in the world!

[@joyhendry3397]

Thanks for your comment MrJason, keep up with the Japanese! Your Grandma's village sounds nice too then!

[@JapanMediaTour]

Definition of a life well lived. Fantastic stuff. Thanks for uploading!

[@chakravertimahajan1988]

What a beautiful piece of visual and aural documentation! So well crafted. A retired anthropologist's 'payback' moments with her people. Places, people and life which we invoke everyday in our classrooms. Made me emotional towards the end. A beautiful way to say goodbye to people and places that melt into our lives. Thank you so very much for showing us the way. This one is definitely on my list for the introduction to social anthropology class. A big hug from Delhi!

[@joyhendry3397]

Thank you! Comment much appreciated.

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Awesome, thats great to hear, thank you for the encouragment and support and we are really happy it is useful for teaching, that makes us very happy and its lovely to hear form you in Delhi, a big hug back from all of us!

[@mushroomsaremagic]

Agreed I felt quite emotional to see 45 research come to a close in rural Japan, I learned so much about anthropolical study and Japanese culture from joy Hendry and this video thank you to everyone involved making this!

[@paulhansen8717]

A retrospective look at a first fieldsite with a legend in the anthropology of Japan. Very cool. And keep mind, this is in Kyushu, which like other areas, differs from other areas from Hiroshima to Hokkaido, Ishigaki to Iwate. Kyoto and Tokyo are interesting but there are many other 'Japans' in Japan. Great stuff!

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thank you for your comment, we have enjoyed creating this video and sharing life and culture in rural japan

[@joyhendry3397]

Thanks, Paul, good comment -- of course this is only one part of a very diverse Japan.

[@inessanmiguelcamargo1830]

Congratulations to James Hendry for his very good film on his mum’s Joy anthropological research that goes back 45 years on a village in Kyushu. A big difference with Spanish and Portuguese former colonies countries in Latin America is that those families with a family tree, with a symbol attached to their last name, which was received from the former colonists, as the own family tree I own, received it from my late father. My siblings may have a copy but not the original. But in Japan to own a family tree is not a matter of proud related to the ancestors, it is something related to the society general behaviour.

[@joyhendry3397]

Thanks, Ines, glad you enjoyed it -- the families in Kyushu are not that bothered about family trees but they certainly liked to have back the ones I made!!

[@maosatela]

how can anything be so good and wholesome , I loved this

[@joyhendry3397]

Thank you!

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

wow, thank you, thats very encouraging, we are really happy you enjoyed it, thanks maosatela!

[@Gee000]

it was very informative and interesting till the very end. thank you for this video i dunno why it led me here but im satisfied and thankful for this. again thank you and your great work.

[@joyhendry3397]

I'm glad you enjoyed it -- thank you for your comment!

[@HoodCP]

Very interesting video. Looking forward to the webinar on 12 May.

[@joyhendry3397]

Thanks, Chris, see you Tuesday maybe!

[@HoodCP]

Was a wonderful webinar - have done a blog post related to it here - hoodcp.wordpress.com/2020/05/13/brief-encounters-in-research/

[@onam9415]

Ah this is so satisfying . Am so looking forward to be there in Japan for a research. ... Anthropology way.

[@yasminhales9894]

Lovely ethnographic film on how a leading anthropologist has conducted research on Japanese concepts of space and place within a local village. Useful intro into how research methods are used, ranging from family trees and kinship structures to art and tea rituals, to understand another culture.

[@broiled6935]

absolutely fascinating!

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thank you for watching

[@Whyhellothereowo]

I always find documentary film boring, but this video is packed beautifully! I like how you explain some of the places briefly yet in detail. I also interested in movie making and thought this film is amazingly amazing! How the angles are taken, the soothing music, everything! (May i ask for part 2 please? 😳❤) Anyways, thank you for uploading this video!

[@joyhendry3397]

Thank you for your positive comments!

[@claudiaconrad5933]

The "Noole-Story" reminded me of the movie Tampopo. Great documentary.

[@snaketooth0943]

My college sent me here.

[@samialsati8054]

many thanks

[@gacherumburu9958]

Great job...👍

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@TajiriOli]

Very good video! Very interesting!

[@joyhendry3397]

Thank you!

[@pjstew9331]

Congratulations on a life well spent.

[@IsabellaMagan]

Why did the mayor (?) of the village or district decide to turn to tea fields instead of other products after the wood on the land was of no use?

[@enzorocha2977]

Fascinating documentary. I wanted to learn more about the area and looked it up on Google Maps and the search engine wanted to correct the spelling of the location: _Korutsuchi_ and not _Korusuchi_ (44:35). A typo, maybe? Or perhaps they're both acceptable? Anyhow, thank you for this upload, I thoroughly enjoyed watching and very much appreciate it.

[@VideoNozoki]

Yes, the person who added the post-credits forgot a "t" so the 45 years of research is all for nothing. Shame! Shame! [ 黒土 (black soil) ] a sub-division of Yame-City [ 八女市 ] Kurotsuchi Community Center: JAPAN 〒834-0002 福岡県 八女市 黒土 203 Postal Code: 834-0002 Fukuoka-ken, Yame-shi, Kurotsuchi 203 City Hall: JAPAN 〒834-0031 福岡県 八女市 本町647 Postal Code 834-0031 Fukuoka-ken, Yame-shi, Honcho 647 Yame-City Community Center: JAPAN 〒834-0031 福岡県 八女市 本町599 Postal Code: 834-0031 Fukuoka-ken, Yame-shi, Honcho 599 www.google.com/maps/place/203+Kurotsuchi,+Yame,+Fukuoka+834-0002/@33.2222272,130.0257954,9z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x3541a8f2fc995ae7:0xd416f37fc87bf16c!8m2!3d33.2222272!4d130.5860981

[@enzorocha2977]

@@VideoNozoki Thank you for the map link, am exploring the area now! :) Hopefully there will be Streetview options as well. Thanks again.

[@joyhendry3397]

Hello Enzo Rocha -- please enjoy your visit, the name is Kurotsuchi, not Korotsuchi (as you guessed) or Kurosuchi (the typo) and please be considerate -- I must have missed VideoNozoki last time I was there so I am sorry he is upset, but otherwise the villagers are very kind and helpful.

[@elizebeths.8880]

Something like this... Exactly. Only for a kimono making town!

[@kiritnaik3099]

There is more similarities in Indian and Japan’s

[@gamebaba5489]

Ato Hona ni Mani kohli

[@gamebaba5489]

Japanese wedding

[@advancedenglishlessons5967]

Splendid documentary, thoroughly enjoyable and fascinating to see field work in action over such a long period of time in Japan

[@LeafofLifeWorld]

Thanks for watching, glad you liked it bro