Five Fascinating Ancient Japanese Traditions Survived Centuries | Still Standing

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These Japanese crafts are among the oldest in the world. But most of them are disappearing.
In this video, we will tell you the stories of five artisans who are among the last to keep their ancient methods alive.
We saw how soy sauce is aged in century-old wooden barrels, how vinegar is fermented using an ancient method, and how sweets that only aristocrats and emperors could eat 400 years ago are prepared today.
00:36 Soy Sauce
08:16 Wagashi
19:27 Mochi
27:12 Bonsai Scissors
37:45 Black Vinegar
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@taitano12 9 ай бұрын

$35?!? Holy crap, I know what I'm buying for my next paycheck. That's a whole lot cheaper than I thought it would be. I love artisan stuff like this. I was expecting $100+ per bottle.

@jimmyeng663 8 ай бұрын

Amazon would be taking a nice cut from that cost too unfortunately but I'd like to try it as well.

@WorthlessUselessLifelessDead 6 ай бұрын

anyone know what to search to find it

@1234jajadingdong 6 ай бұрын

@@WorthlessUselessLifelessDeadtsuru bishio

@Lysdexis 4 ай бұрын

It's around 50 now iirc but it's 100% worth it. Hands down the best soy sauce I've ever had

@phranerphamily 3 ай бұрын

I have a bottle of this soy sauce and it is well worth its price

@yf222000 9 ай бұрын

I love the demeanor of the mochi lady at the shrine. Super impressive of how they kept it going for 25th generations. She looks so happy. :)

@duaneraymond4252 Жыл бұрын

The Japanese soy sauce guy deserves a medal from his government for courage, daring and perseverance to preserve Japanese tradition and culture.

@Sorcièredufutur 2 ай бұрын

absolutely

@LG-jb9zs 8 ай бұрын

What I really appreciate about Japanese culture is that anything can be worthy of patience, discipline, and perfection. Whether it's growing the perfect apple, or crafting the world's best & most precise scissors.

@Tropicalpisces 7 ай бұрын

I think God smiles upon this. 😊

@sophiaisabelle01 Жыл бұрын

Japanese crafts are on another level. These people are certainly talented.

@swiftarrow9 Жыл бұрын

We could be talented too if we took pride in our work. In general we take more pride in our pay than in our work.

@gregorykulinski2186 Жыл бұрын

Dedication it's everything and comes with faith and hope.

@wendirose509 Жыл бұрын

Yes they are.

@jonathancormack 9 ай бұрын

@@swiftarrow9product of a post capitalist society

@clancywiggam 9 ай бұрын

@@swiftarrow9 You need a society that is willing to pay for quality. Then people can devote themselves to great things. Otherwise you get cheap crap. Compare music now to music from the 1970's when it was possible to make a living from music because people bought music. Now we have

@spencetron Жыл бұрын

Literally all of these people are badasses. To the fullest degree. Especially Yasuhiro. He makes BONZAI CUTTERS, with the techniques of KATANAS. Bro that is awesome!! My family (the Scottish side) is full of carpenters. I hope one day I can retire and at least make wood carvings to carry on at least the tiniest bit of my family's tradition.

@reaudimills7947 Жыл бұрын

Having personally purchased that soy sauce, I've been curious since to know it's history. Thank you for featuring the maker of Yamaroku!

@broken_queer_but_fighting8589 Жыл бұрын

How does it taste?

@jgvtc559 Жыл бұрын

@@broken_queer_but_fighting8589sublime I'd imagine

@reaudimills7947 Жыл бұрын

@broken_queer_but_fighting8589 I'm no connoisseur, but it taste normal to me. It felt rich eating it, though. Sorry I couldn't give a better description lol

@broken_queer_but_fighting8589 Жыл бұрын

@@reaudimills7947 that's ok but good to know thanks

@elaineporter182 Ай бұрын

Adding this to my lists for my visit next year

@critterdoc93 Жыл бұрын

I had the opportunity to work with a traditional Japanese woodworker over spring & summer while I was in my 20s. It was the most amazing 6 months I've spent in one place: NO power tools, no photos, no interrupting...but the patience, confidence, respect & appreciation for manual skills have stayed with me for over 50 years.

@Bah-bv1yz 7 ай бұрын

Okay. The lady with the mochi shrine has the most calming and whimsical voice I've ever heard.

@vehenna 9 ай бұрын

The soy sauce is incredible! I was gifted a bottle and use it sparingly, it has a different, nuttier taste compared to regular soy sauce. I truly hope it can continue to be made for years to come.

@BooBuKittyPhuk 9 ай бұрын

What is the brand? I didn't catch it and think I'd like to buy some

@vehenna 9 ай бұрын

@@BooBuKittyPhuk Yamaroku!

@BooBuKittyPhuk 8 ай бұрын

@@vehenna thanks 😁👍

@idee7896 11 ай бұрын

Really appreciate artisans who uphold tradition over profit and convenience

@santsuma 9 ай бұрын

I am totally fascinated by these Japanese ancient traditions, that are passed to new generations. Poecelain pottery, special steel knives/swords, food preparations like miso/shoyu, many kinds of art work like bamboo/paper umbrelas, indigo dyeing, wooden utensils, wooden furniture, flower arrangements, origami... wow, the list is long. This particular story shown here is mindblowiing, the same family doing it for centuries. Japan, China, Korea, and most Asian cultures preserve these traditions...

@suelor5818 10 ай бұрын

We have to give the Japanese people with the most respected of all human being, the dedication, passion, love, hard work, patient and integrity. There is no word to describe the mental focus and with no massive machine. All by hands

@lilytea3 Жыл бұрын

0:47: 🍶 Yasuo Yamamoto, a fifth generation soy sauce maker, is one of the last artisans making soy sauce the traditional way in Japan. 6:45: 🍶 The art of making traditional soy sauce and wagashi (Japanese sweets) in Japan. 19:28: 🍡 The oldest business in Japan, Ichiwa, has been serving roasted rice cakes called aburi mochi for over a thousand years and has survived various challenges, including the current COVID-19 pandemic. 25:52: 🔧 A blacksmith in Japan carries on the tradition of crafting Bonsai scissors using ancient techniques. 34:44: 🔧 Crafting high-quality scissors and brewing rare black vinegar in Japan. 44:25: 🍶 Akihiro Sakamoto runs the family business of producing kurosu, a type of rice vinegar, which is highly sought after for its milder and less acidic taste. Recap by Tammy AI

@zehechen920 11 ай бұрын

0:47 Soy sauce comes from China 6:45 Wagashi comes from China 19:28 Rice cakes comes from China 25:52 Scissors come from Egypt but guess who imported it to japan, China and also the method of making it comes from China 34:44 do i really need more? bonsai trees comes from china 44:25 guess were rice vinegar comes from and were? and you know the big shocker cherry blosm comes china, katana was copied from tang dao, kimono from hanfu, your infrasture you music, art you hiercal system, karate comes from china hmmm should i go on? guess were the idea of a samurai comes from? not like the togukawa hiercal system wasent copied from china but the warrior clasess too bahahahah no culture no lanague all copied from china really piss me off when people steal chinses stuff and say its japanses even the mehod of making these items comes from china. meh but what can you expected when 60% of japanses culture is just stolen cultre from China

@Dariaosu 11 ай бұрын

@@zehechen920 and? what's your point

@zehechen920 11 ай бұрын

@@Dariaosu its ok not every country have a culture of their own. Korea Vietnam and Japan are cultureless counrtys and its ok. tho making chinses culture and lie bout it being japanses culture is wrong

@XxXShevampXxX 10 ай бұрын

@@zehechen920 Just stop. It may have originated in China but they've made it their own in many ways and it now has it's own unique history apart from China. There's nothing wrong with that... It's ridiculously common all over the world.

@Necrodermis 7 ай бұрын

@@zehechen920 You know what the irony to all this is? Now days china just steals from everyone else and makes cheap and faulty copies on a super industrial scale.

@matthewjay660 10 ай бұрын

Regarding the 2nd exposé, the one from Kyoto, the confectioners practice what I believe in: Accuracy is Speed. What I mean is that the confectioners are so precise in shaping their sweet treats that they are fast enough to finish working on a piece before it starts to melt from being held by human hands. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍬🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵

@fsmith45 Жыл бұрын

My mom got me a bottle of the soy sauce as a birthday gift one year and it was great. The flavor is a lot more pleasant as a raw topping than other brands, but as far as I could tell there isn’t a huge difference if you cook with it, so it was something that I used pretty situationally.

@TooLittleInfo 9 ай бұрын

I find that to be true generally with "good" ingredients, eating it without cooking (or overcooking, depending on what that ingredient is exactly) lets you taste the flavours the best. For example like butter, if you've got a nice fine butter it's best to just grab some bread and slather it on instead of baking with it

@aryxilia1757 9 ай бұрын

I bought this soy sauce a few months ago and I can tell a huge difference between factory made. It has a very rich flavor.

@DylanSigleydropservice Жыл бұрын

Even though the crafts are usually repeated each time in these videos, I still watch every single one.

@somerandomfella Жыл бұрын

It's relaxing and inspiring seeing their dedication.

@sarahlevine776 Жыл бұрын

Crafts can be hard, but that's what makes them so fulfilling. We are wired to make and create. It is our salvation.

@officialtree5245 Жыл бұрын

ngl 35$ isn't very much for soy sauce, especially if there's a signficant taste difference, and it helps keep a tradition alive.

@justcameron9500 9 ай бұрын

As far as my budget will allow, I wish to support artisans like this. Clearly they are all Japanese in this video, and I applaud all of them. There are at least one or two products highlighted here that I intend to purchase, but these are not the only ones out there who deserve to be supported. Regardless of nationality, each and every corner of the globe has dying traditions like these. If you can afford to pay the premium and appreciate the work of the people who uphold these traditions please find a way to purchase their products and support them. Once they are gone, they are gone, and it kinda hurts my heart to think that businesses like those shown here could die and be lost to time due to people not recognizing the importance of upholding the traditional ways of doing things.

@anniekinsmishkamouse7575 Жыл бұрын

The traditional methods produce a very superior product. Due to the knowledge and physical care it would be nearly impossible to replicate this process by machines. It also takes a lot of time to learn how to rely on their senses to know when it is time for the next step.

@zehechen920 11 ай бұрын

@anniekinsmishkamouse7575 11 ай бұрын

@@zehechen920 And you responded to me instead of the video makers. I never said anything about appropriation or that these were exclusive to Japan. Only regarding the making of something. Your knowledge and opinion are not relative to what I said. So please take your "pissed off" comment elsewhere and do not blame me.

@zehechen920 11 ай бұрын

@@anniekinsmishkamouse7575 i was just stating a fact that Japan Korea and Vietnamn are Cultureless counrtys with no culture. Almost all of their culture and things like they are known for like korea:kimchi handbook. Japan: katana Samurai Cherrblosm and karate all comes from China

@rachelread1346 9 ай бұрын

Love these videos. Japan always amazes me. They know how do do things properly there!

@samanthav563 8 ай бұрын

I love the one lady who says she taught everyone how to do mochi! Dont hog all the knowledge ❤

@Rygoat Ай бұрын

I love watching people make stuff, without videos we wouldnt get to see the processes anymore. I miss being a kid and just watching someone make glass or repair shoes, there's something special about watching someone who has muscle memory just silently working away at their craft.

@treeodore4369 Жыл бұрын

The lady running the aburi mochi shop is my favorite.

@FukutenshiYoufan Жыл бұрын

The traditional Japanese Soy Sauce, the Kyogashi/Wagashi, the Aburi Mochi and the Japanese Black Vinegar look extremely delicious and I want to try them all. 🍡 🏺

@nictibbetts Жыл бұрын

Then buy them all and support these businesses, jackass.

@ZachariahKhoshnaw 11 ай бұрын

Japanese culture is fascinating

@a.leehilliard4716 Жыл бұрын

This is one of the best you've ever produced. Thank you.

@lisathomas1622 10 ай бұрын

Barrel aged soy sauce is delicious! It’s like the fine champagne of soy sauce. ❤

@LLjean-qz7sb 7 ай бұрын

Those barrels are beautiful! True craftsmanship! Bless him for rescuing a dying art! Soy sauce lovers applaud you! The old arts need to be rescued and continued! Today's generation need to learn patience and quality over speed and mass production!

@elizabethneville3086 8 ай бұрын

A mochi shop that has been in the same family for generations!! They took on debt to keep paying their employees when they shut during the worst of the pandemic!! ❤❤❤❤❤

@ayeshahello7615 7 ай бұрын

This is a national treasure and it should be preserved as part of their essence, is part of their culture, please to future generations, never let this tradition to die. 😔

@BooBuKittyPhuk 9 ай бұрын

Meanwhile all our movies make going into the family business seem like a fate worse than death. I would be honored to be the 3rd generation in a family business, much less the 23rd!!! That would be amazing in my book. Besides that, people need to start appreciating quality and craftsmanship again, keep paying fair prices for the hard work and skill that goes into good products, and stop buying cheap crap from huge corporations

@katyahum9826 2 ай бұрын

fascinating!

@CynicalLight 7 ай бұрын

Only 5? Japan is a true artisan community. ❤

@Tropicalpisces 7 ай бұрын

My brain just loves these videos.

@mattk8936 29 күн бұрын

You will swear you haven't ever tasted soy sauce before. It's sooo good.

@Jude74 10 ай бұрын

The cooper soy sauce brewer has my respect. I so want to try his brand.

@jamohelton2163 Жыл бұрын

Nice video and also first comment

@ellemarr7234 5 ай бұрын

These are all true labors of love 😊

@SixthSinEnvy Жыл бұрын

Of all of these I'd like to try the black vinegar the most.

@Taneth 3 ай бұрын

I much prefer the "I will teach this technique to literally anyone who asks" type of artisans, over the "This recipe goes to my children or to my grave" type.

@Emmywu 7 ай бұрын

Would’ve loved links to purchase these products and support the artisans.

@slodoco Жыл бұрын

Don't say Umami flavor. If you want to use Umami, say just Umami. Otherwise say savory flavor like in the normal English.

@SankaD Жыл бұрын

wow it is amazing.japanese are so creative and talented.

@zehechen920 11 ай бұрын

@farfallabrujita6947 Ай бұрын

@@zehechen920 This is ourtageous. Why is China letting them get away with this? They need to do something!

@JimboDaDungBeetle 9 ай бұрын

Preserve Japanese culture; avoid ending up like Western Europe. Encourage the conservation and continuation of traditional Japanese customs, practices, and values.

@mm-yt8sf 9 ай бұрын

it's strange to see giant barrels new when i'm used to see them as old things

@phylliskalifeh853 9 ай бұрын

I was beginning to think either I was going crazy or you were! 😂

@annieclark9772 5 ай бұрын

he said he's gonna pass his soy sauce workshop down to a son 😂 he didn't blink.

@gardenlifelove9815 3 ай бұрын

Soy sauce should be a rare and heavily related as champagne with regards to its original making and taste

@azzikko2688 Жыл бұрын

I wanna taste the fancy shoyu soooo badddd

@fga_3085 Жыл бұрын

have someone the link for the soy sauce?

@AbsentWithoutLeaving 7 ай бұрын

You're on the internet. They've given you the name of the producer and the name of the product. So, next you...

@arnaysapajiji9276 Жыл бұрын

Doing a craft that you are passionate ease depression.i know this is out of conversation, but jaon society has many lone people bu doing craft and be active ease depresion and lonely feeling.😢

@genericaccount5997 Ай бұрын

"Bwown Wice is one of onwy Thwee Ingwediants" lol

@TobyW360 Жыл бұрын

7:10 anyone see the dunker on that chef

@gisleyalves7757 7 ай бұрын

🇧🇷🇧🇷 Most of the Soy Sauce you find in supermarkets are NOT real soy sauce. These wood barrels are NOT easy to make. With modern machinery or not. BRAZIL, by far, has the biggest wood variety in the world and even so, it is not that easy to find the right wood to make barrels that big. The question is: from where the wood to make the barrels come from? Once Japan is composed by volcanic soil and, usually, it doesn't have very tall trees ? 🇧🇷🇧🇷

@Ropeorsnake 6 ай бұрын

They said the barrels are made of bamboo, which is common and fast growing

@ElectricalCurrent-bz7ou 4 ай бұрын

Oh boy bugs and diseases in my soysauce

@AppliedCryogenics 8 ай бұрын

"Only those who practice this for around 10 years can roast the mochi [skewers] properly." Oh wow, really? 🤨

@jamsjars9505 8 ай бұрын

Such a shame they couldn't just stick to these traditions and decided to invade and absolutely destroy their neighbors back in the day instead.

@Chuckf66 7 ай бұрын

"the fall"? It's "autumn" for the world outside of North America.

@kathyk479 Жыл бұрын

I would love to have a pair of that gentleman's scissor's!

@lorrainebarrett77 8 ай бұрын

If you want a quality product that is hand made with old traditional ways The price of$ 35 is cheap

@NoPantsBaby 21 күн бұрын

Ah yes the traditional steam temperature adjusted steel drum fermentation chamber..... Black vinegar dude should look into this concept called "climate controlled buildings" and achieve some verticality.

@mohamedyounis4058 Жыл бұрын

I like your videos alot, I would like to translate your subtitles into Arabic, If you are interested.

@shardamaharjan5597 7 ай бұрын

Let that first guy build the new age tartarus . 🤣

@瞳星月 10 ай бұрын

What's the name of that wagashi store?

@justinmorgan2126 3 ай бұрын

I fail to see how the modernization of soy making after WW2 nearly destroyed a business that survived for more than 50 years after the end of the war but yeah.... 2007 was the year that broke a business.. not any year between 1946 and 2006.

@ayeshahello7615 7 ай бұрын

Noooo 😮😢

@pauljerome01 9 ай бұрын

I genuinely hate when the virus* 2020 interfere with a social tradition of a country or tourism.

@山本英昌-u2p Жыл бұрын

If we Japanese lost any of thoese rhe tradirions, the tradtion are prity much obiliviated. It‘s not just tradition and goods but history that is nmore than tradirion and Japanese art. MUST TRY things when,vuaiting Japan. Quality over quantity.

@zehechen920 11 ай бұрын

@ohsweetmystery 8 ай бұрын

Would be illegal here in the US because the government doesn't like to allow people to choose their own food.

@cristsan4171 Жыл бұрын

Don't worry, clones be replacing them and then all be made using machineries. -Money

@TheBoss0110101001 7 ай бұрын

Making an inferior product for tradition is so dumb. Plus they are always complaining about being on the verge of failure. They reason they're still doing it like this is because everyone else kept up with the times.

@Ropeorsnake 6 ай бұрын

Yasuo is a soy sauce hero 👏

@1walkgirl 7 ай бұрын

40.36 little bug in the jar😁🐜

@diesell4174 Жыл бұрын

“Why do they call Japanese stuff art and treat Indian stuff another way” -nobody

@Pavlovsobaka Жыл бұрын

Double standards

@luckyguy71 Жыл бұрын

what's the brand name of this soy sauce?

@BestGameLoadouts Жыл бұрын

Oh I’m early

@BRAVOBLUEZ 7 ай бұрын

I know of this man HES AMAZING

@MoonGoblin 10 ай бұрын

This series is good but they reuse content so much lol

@LLyrikz Жыл бұрын

Chonky little puppies. 😊

@kathleenwallis8469 9 ай бұрын

God I bet that soy sauce is sublime

@MeryOnTheRun 3 ай бұрын

Please not touch with hands though. Not hygienic

@slodoco Жыл бұрын

It would be nice if you didn't mispronounce names all the time...

@zehechen920 11 ай бұрын

@InYoPie Жыл бұрын

The reason they have lasted so long is because they were on an island and isolated from invasions of different cultures. Japan had many warring nations, but they were all essentially other Japanese who needed these traditional artisans as they were essential personnel. Japan invaded mainland Korea and China and decimated the native culture and burned down EVERYTHING they deemed "different." They went on a rampage to DECIMATE Korean culture and historical landmarks for centuries.

@user-et2dx5du7e Жыл бұрын

congratulations, you explained colonialism.if you're from europe you should look at your own history

@SweetCammieEyes1 Жыл бұрын

These crafts have survived due to Japans 209 years of isolation

@zehechen920 11 ай бұрын

@dm3280 8 ай бұрын

@@zehechen920 Well, Japanese people basically came from China, mostly. So they are still technically your distant relative. Also, China is known for mass production, not quality.

@watrewatre1982 Жыл бұрын

EVERY JAPANESE ART REQUIRES 10 YEARS TO PERFECT AND ALWAYS HARD AS THEY SAY LIKE SMELLING THE VINEGAR EVERYDAY. IF WIPING AZZ WAS A JAPANESE ART I WONDER WHAT A STRUGGLE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN FOR MANY 😅😂

@MrMetalpunx 9 ай бұрын

So much work for a disappointing taste.

@ge6063 Жыл бұрын

excuse me？？？ even japanese themselves know their culture are from china，nomater food nomatter handcraft no matter cloth no matter house design even words

@zehechen920 11 ай бұрын

@nictibbetts Жыл бұрын

These people need Jesus.

@zehechen920 11 ай бұрын

@pauljerome01 9 ай бұрын

Fortunately china is interested in gutter oil and tofu dreg construction then tradition.

@zehechen920 8 ай бұрын

@@pauljerome01 yea I know that 400k dead American since 2018 from chinses imported Fetnayl would like to agree and the 90 000 dead America Every year from chinses Fetnayl would love to ride on china High speed trains oops cant they ride in the USA🤭 msbye they too busy shooting children and increasing homlessness too busy locking up items in supermarkets behind bullet proof glass so people wont steal them before paying🤭 but what do I know China just have the most skyscrapers in the world comapred to usa tofu failed society I don't know if the fake news shoved down your throat about gutter oil when china live longer then Americans you should try to eat some gutter oil bc it seems that it's better then what average American eats🤭 going after 2008 problems huh?