Hi Folks, 20 years ago, When I was a kid, my dad told me about the reduction of manpower of traditional trades due to the industrialization and modernization of Japanese society, traditional products started to become outdated and forgotten.
Today, I'm proud to be a Miyadaiku (carpenter) to build and repair traditional temples and shrines, when my dream has come true and my passion has been achieved. We want to spread this to the younger generation and glorify them as much as possible.
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A youth of today who desires to learn any old ways is extremely rare, not to include the patience this young man has. This man smilled with a great wide smile when the master gave him a 70. Today many would leave feeling they deserved 100%. This is perseverance, which I for one applaud. Thank you so very much for documenting this rare talent. I have always said that if we would have documented talents of our parents and grand parents what a better understanding of specifics we would have. Tnak you so very much for sharing. I very much appreciate it.
Sehr beeindruckend mit welcher Hingabe Mr Takagi seinen Traum verfolgt 🤩 Leider gibt es heutzutage wenige junge Menschen wie Mr Takagi die ein altes Handwerk erlernen wollen 🥺
I was so looking forward to watching this mastercraftsman. I was disappointed with the blurry images which gave me quite a headache. Please try to redo the video as I am very keen to watch this master at his work.
Truly an inspiring practice of living the moment. An attainment to a peaceful soul and a cultured art of a spirit of acknowledging the beauty of life that we are part of.
Skill. Artistry. Beauty. Quality. Where I live, these are often all given up in favor of making as much money as possible with as little effort. The world I live in feels cheap and bland as a result. This right here is beautiful in every way. When even the way a thing is constructed is beautiful, careful, and artful, that is a joy in life that cannot be beat.
"There is no other wood in the world as rare and exclusive as the Ancient Kauri Wood. For reasons that we do not know exactly, these trees were laid to rest in the swampy Northern part of New Zealand about 30,000-50,000 years ago." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_kauri There is NO wood that is 5 million years old, it would be called coal , lignite or stone.
The articles made in this rare wood must be extremely expensive. The amount of time and effort put into each item is enormous! I thought that her spoon was perfect, and so did she, but the master could see a fault. And this is a student’s trial piece….after four years in apprenticeship!!!! Talk about perfectionism! …….The artisan’s shoulders must have a deep hole worn into them from all that exertion too! But I’d love to own just one piece . It is a beautiful craft❤️😊🦘🇦🇺
I have piece of oakbogwood that I dug up myself which is around 4000 years old or from the Neolithic era as some wood has been found nearby that has been worked with stone tools there s no way that it can be worked as it just crumbles to dust when dried to preserve it I have had to replace the water with paraffin wax and even then it’ss unworkable this sounds like pure marketing speech in order to inflate the prices as said before if it was that old it wood be coal now the oldest bog wood on record is 8290 years old and was found along the Danube
I worked with pieces of bog oak classified as 1000-4000 years old. Soft as butter and easy to work with. I was sceptical about the age but then got some logs pulled by local farmers (Ireland), same, just nowhere near being fossilised.
This was AMAZING!!! Did anyone notice the unique SOUND IT MADE when it was being carved?!?! (you can hear it @ 2:10 ) I have NEVER heard anything like that!!! WOW!!! This is EXACTLY what I would want to experience when I visit Japan!! The fact that this one of a kind craft is being kept alive by only ONE person is MINDBLOWIN... yet SAD. - I wish there was a way to purchase some of these beautiful piece I saw... MAYBE this is something they are doing but on a local level... THANK YOU for sharing this! Could you PLEASE CONTINUE to post videos just like these? I LOVE these short Japanese documentaries about craftsmen. They just have this miyabi to them that make me want to keep watching more ;) Thanks again :D
5 millions years = stone. Bogwood, which I have worked with, tends to be 1000-5000 years old. I absolutely love bogwood, it's amazing stuff. Edit: Some info clarifying bogwood: Cabonization is a process within fossilization. Bogwood, also called morta, is from buried trees that are in an anaerobic environment which stops the usual cellular decay and instead preserves the wood while it slowly carbonizes. This only takes a few hundred to 5000 or so years and any further than that you get closer to stone and an actual fossil. Bogwood is NOT a fossil. You need good tools, but you can see in the video that it is still wood, and generates the usual curls when carved. Stone doesn't curl when you cut it.
I think this more of a translation issue.... there is no word that accurately describes the material they use EXACTLY, and so the person that translated it from Japanese to English used their discretion and just said bogwood... and TBH it IS bogwood in the beginning of the process... it will eventually turn into coal, but right before that it turns to this stuff,... and in order for all that to happen it HAS TO be buried in an anaerobic environment... i.e. a BOG ..... hence the translator using this word that EVERY COMMENT I have read has harped on... WHO CARES WHAT WORD THEY USED!!!! This is about the MASTERY OF A MATERIAL AND TRADITION THAT IS DYING! ONE PERSON IS/WAS KEEPING IT ALIVE AND THAT IS WHAT THE VIDEO IS ABOUT 🤦♂
@@Nobe_Oddy You do realise that bogwood is used worldwide for everything from artistic pieces to cutlery and furniture? I've made 2 hand planes from it. It may be one person in Japan keeping their specific trade going but they aren't the only one overall. Also, the wood featured here IS bogwood/morta; it is not different. You should to go look up the process so you can understand your mistake. You're likely right regarding the translation but I think that has more to do with the years listed, ie 5 million vs thousand.
@@WoodworkingEnthusiasts I certainly don't feel that way about you. I really appreciate the videos you do, they are wonderful and often rare glimpses into Japanese woodworking. I'm a joiner myself and have studied various aspects of Japanese joinery and other woodworking. I'm sorry if my tone or approach offended you; I tend to get hyper-focussed on accuracy. Edit: I adjusted my initial post. :)
@@ehlirgroan, you are joking she is placing the emphasis in the wrong place, it’s so annoying as pleasing as her voice is, her emphasis are all in the wrong place which changes the structure of the sentence are incorrect.
@@shanetrent8799 what no sense? read novels! that video title made no sense.trees that they use in video is not older that 1000 years old and no more that 300 years under ground
