The Craft is made from a Carbonized Material, Which has been Buried for about 5 Million Years
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2019
- Hello Everyone,
When I was a kid, my dad has told me about the reduction of manpower of traditional trades due to the industrialization and modernization of Japanese society, traditional products started to become out-dated and forgotten.
#woodworking #buriedwood #ancienttechnique
However, they’re still young people who spend all of their careers carrying on the tradition. We'd like to honor them as much as we can. So I decided to create a series of video shows about them and their work from the footage available from my friends and myself.
Today, This video will be more attractive because I have edited the script, rewrote the content, new effects work, new music, new footage added and a new creation is created as follows: "The Craft is made from a Carbonized Material, Which has been Buried for about 5 Million Years"
This time our main character is a Umoregi-Zaiku Craftsman: Suzuki Ayano (鈴木 綾乃さん) from Miyagi Prefecture. She was Born in 1989
Umoregi-Zaiku Master Craftsman(Her Teacher): Kodake Takashi (小竹 孝さん)
Enjoy a look at a craftsman who strictly keeps the traditional techniques alive and the numerous works that they create with utmost care. Akiu Kogei no Sato (Akiu Traditional Crafts Village): There are 9 artisans and are dedicated to preserving traditional skills. It is worth seeing their masterpieces and their apprentices working hard to inherit traditional techniques so they can pass it onto future generations.
At Mr. Takashi Kotake’s bogwood craft workshop and home in the Akiu Traditional Crafts Village near Akiu Hot Springs, He continues to make bogwood crafts. He entered the road from the age of fifteen and had a career of 57 years. Bogwood craft once flourished as one of the representative crafts of Sendai, but with the halt of lignite mining in the 1950s, it has been more than eight years since Mr. Kotake became “the last bogwood craftsman” in Sendai.
In order to prevent the craft from being lost, in 2012, Mr. Kotake decided to take on an apprentice with financial support from Sendai City. He chose Ms. Ayano Suzuki, who had just graduated from a local women’s university.
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After living in Japan for many years I am still amazed at how well Japan keeps traditional skills alive! Beautiful work, and its great that he took an apprentice to keep it alive. I am also glad to see women learning crafts that were previously only a men performed. Sendai is a wonderful part of Tohoku, and by far Northern Japan is the most beautiful of all!
WOW, Thank you very much! God bless you and your family as always
Ah yes, the one thousand nine hundred and fifties. A good time.
I was like, "wow they switched away from that stuff a long time ago. Wait, what?"
Awesome channel! And boy, this girl is just amazing! Just imagine how hard it is for her to carve such material. Also her fascination wit nature is heartwarming. Thanks for sharing this video!
our pleasure!
Absolutely amazing! I've never seen such a beautiful spoon. So desireable it just calls out. Such talent. What a people.
very beautiful work.. this young lady has talent.. Her teacher must be very good.. thank you teacher for passing on your skills and not letting them die.
Beautiful work. I love to watch craftsmen/craftswomen making pretty much anything.
Tough material, lovely work!
Amazing skill and it wonderful
Beautiful pieces.
Absolutely amazing work and thanks for letting us see such gorgeous work
My pleasure 😊
Very meticulous nicely done
Lovely and the spoon looks really nice as well.
very amazing , i don't have a better word to present how great this work. .thanks for sharing.
Well Thank you too!
Excellent display and such a lovely Artform.
glad you like it
Just beautiful......
Thanks again!
Really beautiful work l love the little spoon so much and the maple leaf, thank you for sharing your woodworking with us.
our pleasure!
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Looks like your shoulder would be very sore after a days work
Very beautiful items!!
Enjoyed your video and gave it a Thumbs Up
the way the material is preserved makes me think of the tsunami from 03/2011 burying forests and towns, villages up to unimaginable depths , the stories that that forest or glade of woods could tell is amazing, the burial could be volcanic , i couldnt make out that part of the story, but that material was not green of course, almost but not quite charcoal but not quite rock either, the story makes me think of THE MATRIX, " there is no spoon ", it is a beautiful spoon and wonderful apprenticeship , thank you for posting, i wish i had the recipe for that lacquer
well, that makes sense, thanks for telling me!
This tipe of woodworking is a rare skill now a days . Very impressive .
The tipe of wood is very fascinating , each fresh cut has a shine and easily gives a hint of what the finished piece will look like .
After seeing the finished piece , I couldn't tell the new one from one that was made ten , twenty years ago or even one from one thousand years ago .
Wanna try typing that again?
@@miles11we fuck you
This is the correct way to spell it
Only a Limey spells it with a y
Se ve tan maravilloso algo tan simple...
glad you like it
Muito bonito esse trabalho, lembro quando eu estava pra terminar uma colher ela quebrou kkk
Longer videos please
Wowwwww
Lindo trabalho,que tipo de madeira foi usado pra fazer essa peça?
👏👏👍👍👍👍
I love her work so much. I wish I could have something made of this material. Also is anyone else surprised by the fact that this was made by a young woman? Usually it's old men that are in these types of videos. I'm happy to see a young person keeping an old traditional alive.
So many nay sayers knocking, probably have trouble sharpening a pencil...This is beautiful work, expertly done, keep it up!!!
Thank you very much!
Hi. I love your word and how you have kept your family traditions. That is very important to know where you come from. I’m interested in buying some of your spoons collection. How can I buy some?
Well thank you, this product is only sold and exhibited in Japan, though
Bogwood is not lignite, which is a soft brown coal derived from peat. Bogwood is preserved _in_ peat.
I think that they mean that when the harvesting of lignite stopped there wasn't much bog wood being found then.
Wow! The craftsmanship is excellent! The young lady is nice to look at too!
I could be wrong but I understood them to mean they found bogwood while mining for lignite.
After searching around, I'm still not sure if they're processing bogwood or lignite in the video. Lignite / Brown Coal is, at least here in the North America, a small rock-like formation that would be destructive to woodworking chisels. Bogwood better fits the description for what they're doing, though I've never personally handled a sample to be sure.
With just about every art form we lose technical experts that hold out passing on what makes their work so special. The act of taking on apprenticeships is an awesome way to share your secrets the problem is the master is always afraid that the apprentice will take his secrets and share them with his/her competitors for profit so they don’t share them. Paints and glazes react to light and fade and change color, smoke a soot build up and hide the finer details and Wood is seen as replaceable if damaged (you break a spoon throw it in the fire and carve a new one).. now with steel being able to last your lifetime it takes the need for that wooden spoon away. If it takes a person a whole day or even a week to make a spoon compared to having a metal one that will last forever and is cheaper than that block of wood it’s easy to see where the art gets lost along the way. How much of a difference is this wood to work with in comparison to stabilized wood?
I think the difference here is the subtle dark brown which possesses a distinctively beautiful luster.
When she was roughing out I knew she would cut the side of the spoon off, no control using her shoulder..... still it turned out smaller but lovely.....a lesson learnt.
someone should invent a vice so she can use both hands.
none .....don’t mess with tradition...😎😁
You can't swing a dead cat without hitting an expert in traditional Japanese craftsmanship these days! You guys are coming out of the traditional Japanese woodwork. There are probably half a dozen true masters of this rare form, people that dedicate their lives to a specific craft yet you "saw the error" in her technique from the get-go! Keen eye buddy. I bet you've got lots of great advice on lots of things that already happened.
@@none3763 then Marc's Fx can tell us how a true master vice maker like himself would have made it.
Virgil Tharpe seeing something happen because of a way it’s being done only comes from experience and no doubt you know absolutely everything of Japanese woodworking, please continue to enlighten us all...
Where can I get carving knife used?
I would love to whittle a figure from this material. PS. I love swallows. Aerobatic birds are great to watch.
I love how "1950s" was read
Vocaloids
How do I get one? Any website?
Traditionally, what would have been used instead of the abrasive paper? What is the name of the lacquer or finish that was used? Thank you for the video.
Shark skin has been used as sand paper by other traditional craftsmen around the world. Not sure if the Japanese used it though.
How do I get some of that to work with?
start digging?
Amazing work!
Also, the female compute voice is far better than the male voice. We hear a lot worse pronunciation with the male computer voice.
Is it possible to obtain some small pieces? Pen blank would be great.
You could possibly ask for the scrap/cast-off pieces and maybe put a composite blank together. The supply is limited and may not want to give up workable pieces, but you can see if they will sell you the cast-off material.
Yes finding bog wood is fairly easy/abundant. Google
2:25 Wait... when..?
That wood looks like dark chocolate! It’s making me hungry!
LOL..Totally?
Woodworking Enthusiasts absolutely! When she was carving that bog wood it looked like she was carving dark chocolate. I ended up buying some chocolate today because I was craving it after watching that documentary. I love woodworking and I find it fascinating seeing people work on exotic material. My dad was an artist and he did a lot of carving of wood. I loved watching him. I’ve handled many types of wood but never seen this type of wood before and the beauty of those spoons was exquisite.
I think they added a few zeros when they said the material has been preserved 5 million years. I might believe 5000 years.
Usually takes more than thousands of years for things to be fossilized. 5 million years is probably more accurate
Ryan Castaneda The bogwood is not fossillized.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog-wood
Why the music... why?
Bass is annoyed with the music here 😜
That girl is beautiful.
@anonymous Gay!
Very fuckable..!
5million 5million
i can see the tool going trough her knees and living a nasty scar
Most edifying. Craftsmanship brought to its summit. Only the Japanese can attain these levels; it's in their blood. The West has lost all its values. Long live Tradition and Beauty.
haha.
surely that must be true.
anyways, that was a really nice spoon, a thousand years ago, someone convinced a king that it was the best ever made.
those jeans she had were really really cute, and she is getting better at carving every day.
she knows whats up, i hope she follows her heart. jeans and heart will lead the way.
How did she not stab herself with the chisel?
Molto bello, però così ti porti via la spalla....
It’s not 5 million years old… maybe 10,000
so now, 20 years later, this girl, now a woman is the only one left in the world doing this?
i sure hope she made 10 sons, or got 10 new students!. would be sad to see such a ancient craft like many before it gone from this world!.
yeah, not at all but in japan
a million years old wood, and they making a spoon out of it.
better then burning it.
It's just wood carving.
yep...the different from what is usual was in buried materials
Nothing like loud, annoying music over a narrator who mumbles just above a whisper.
Марёный дуб?
trick 43 как мореный дуб попал в гору !? )
Stop using text to speech
This music is absolutely abhorrent. Completely eliminates the connection to the documentary.
yep, shame on me!!
Who makes these videos all with the same bad music ?
Please lose the music!
Following WW2, the US considered everything made in Japan poor quality junk, similar to how we consider made in China today. This continued through the 70’s, 80,s & 90’s but somehow today we idealize Japanese craftsmanship. I don’t see anything that special in this video, a good woodworker can do everything shown in this video.. just sayin’
That's the point scooter! Not saying it good Because they're Japanese,just saying these Japanese are good wood workers.
Japanese have buildings built 1000 years ago that are still standing average age for a building in the west is 50 years your comment so uninformed its comedic bro 😆🤣😂😂😂
Looks like wenge
The loud up-beat music at the beginning and the computerized female voice ruined the "experience" for me. I don't get how it matches with a traditional japanese craftsmanship mini-documentary... The music after 2 mins is much better.
Something more subtle and related to the content would work better imo. Just some constructive feedback. :)
Well, I was super bummed about it...Thank you for setting me straight!
@@WoodworkingEnthusiasts fuck off and tell us where you stole the video from then
@Elliot Warburton DO NOT jump to conclusions, I have full permission to use it
@@WoodworkingEnthusiasts just because you have permissions doesn't make it of any use. You completely mess up the whole vibe of the thing, and many of us would appreciate it if you at least linked the source in the description. If you did that, it'd be just great.