Remembering a carver - Ito Susumu 

Until RU-vid deletes it 7 years down the line for no reason to save "space"

Johnny5Tech You’ve got a point, but at the same time if something really blows you away it takes 20 seconds to download the video to a hard drive. RU-vid really is the most amazing archive on earth.

Great sentiment. My 2400 vids hidden due to constant trolling / hatemail.

@@crabapples1995 how do you do that ?

Dark Mice there’s a lot of video downloader apps and I think with RU-vid premium you can download a lot of files.

this shows that David bull does it out of passion and the other guy just to make money so he has food on his table, in my opinion he embarrassed himself by saying that to David

He's more than a craftsman, he is an artist

Nice

Wow... how beautiful.....

@@bigsmoke1787 Really. No.

Yeah lol

Edie Bassett sure did. Cute.

I was just about to type that!

I noticed that as well lol

So desu ne

Its RSI

xxBeachHeadxx exactly! I was going to write just that! haha

xxBeachHeadxx Damn! Beat me to it. Haha.

BeachHead I was just about to say this! Can't believe I just now found this account.

you read my mind

BeachHead I was LITERALLY scrolling down so I could comment that!!

vafeas84 Same, man. Same.

vafeas84 i stumbled here from nhk japanology series

Exactly the same as my experience. ^^

Not a clue how I ended up here. or the fact that I just watched a 30min video. I ain't mad at it though. Dude had me listening to every word wanting more. Great story teller.

vafeas84 same.

Sometimes old men say such things not in harm but in wisdom to light fires in young men so young men set out to prove old men wrong, then old men laugh... It's a good way to separate the wheat and husk...

@@smilingjackl CT Fletcher ~ "The worst thing you can do is tell me that I cannot do something"

Actually, it's a business thing. I just learned Ramen shops do the same thing. They only train people they want to supersede them, everyone else they dont teach, even if from their own store and studio. They teach them the smaller basic things, not the main techniques

They say to never meet your heroes, but don't say to never argue with them.

@@venomtang Isn’t that a pretty bad business model? It’s good to be guarded with information, but being too stingy can lead to a small pool of knowledge being passed from one person to another.

Haha, I noticed that too.

Lmao

Yes, it's very noticeable, especially if you're familiar with Japanese. He regularly punctuates his speech with "ano~", which is like he's subconsciously pausing to search for the precise word to use, similar to a simple "uh," or "er" in English. Obviously a verbal habit that he's picked up after years of speaking the language with natives.

Their culture? The man has been Japanese for decades. This insane xenophobic attitude that Japanese is some superior culture that other humans are too inferior to experience needs to fuck right off.

LMMFAO

Winds Blade Of course not. It needs no introduction!

which hasn't changed in 40 years lol

Lmao I thought the guy at my work was the only man alive with this hairstyle, if anyone knows the name of it please let me know what its called

We are not

Jesus man spoilers

If anime can teach you one thing it's that the Japanese's mortal weakness is rain, no joke. 😅

@@Yo_DynamoJoe snape kills dumbledor

Neither was he apparently.

Death comes usually unprepared

Well they will learn eventually that If you dont pass down your passion it will die with you.... or they wont like most of them and their knowledge will die with them

You can't understand their... level or psyche, I can't pinpoint the exact thing about them, but they're probably so introverted and consumed by their work for decades, that teaching and 'spreading knowledge' isn't on their agenda. Those who want to learn will find a way and persevere. For instance, Da Vinci was a god-level master, but probably not a great dude to hang out with 😁

From what I understand, part of the disconnect is that if they teach you their secrets, you may become a rival. But if you prove worthy of their time, you may glean enough to become good in your own way. Not every master takes an apprentice, but those who do, could teach the secrets of the universe. Or at least their little corner of it. Peace to Ito-San and happiness to all.

They only want to share if it’s on tv. Obviously likes the publicity

most of them have bad memories about ww2 and don’t want to share with peoples somehow related to places that nuked them twice

Bob Logs

Was thinking same thing lol 😆

🏞️

Beat me to it!

Woody Ross

RESIDENTHOB0 You aren't kidding!! Great final comments...

It’s the moment of self-realization. Everything is a hobby until you have that moment.

Probably one of the most badass sentence I've heard

I'm a Craftsman

actually sun tzu When’s the part when he says it? 😯

agreed this is a story i can fall asleep to, but not wanna fall asleep to hear the story.

not relaxing but yeah interesting

Your late

Agreed

He is not a craftsman...

Nearly in tears? Bruh, be more dramatic

Seriously? Tears? Why? Firstly, it sounded like Ito Susumu was entirely indifferent to this man's existence. On top of that, I'm surprised you thought Dave showed humility...I thought repeatedly while watching this, "wow, he's a little bit arrogant!" Soothing voice? Yes. Humble? Not so much. Touching story? Hardly.

Saoirse Dove - Arrogant? He’s honest. You’d prefer the current trend for totally false modesty?

@@Russell-1 Even when their art is good, artists are not supposed to praise their own work. It's just the way things are. Better to be overly humble than prideful. Generally, it's best to let others praise your work while you maintain a modest attitude.

You're wrong. As an artist you can reflect over your own work and compare it to other pieces you have done in the past. To witness your own progression and the journey you have taken as a craftsmen or artist. The arrogancy takes form when you start comparing you own work to others. Especially if your claiming that your work is better while looking over the diffences all artists have.

Ray Wild that's deep

So deep, so pure.

So discombobulating

gay

Ruok Finally came out, well done you.

It's a gift for us good people who have been through hell and back ,to watch this was random ...I look at it as a gift that came across my feed ..gratitude ,I'm honestly thankful to watch this video it was a refreshing feeling that I haven't felt in it seem's like forever with what has been going on in our world...blessings to you my friend...😁🌅

"Dave Level" ...... sounds like a meme ;-)

Talk about high level manipulation of dead tree carcass !

Lol yeah. And Susumu"Yoda" Ito performs quantum carbon reorganization 😁 which Dave hopes to pull off some day 😎

@@goinhot9133 *High level manipulation of wood via molecular surgery.

hook, line and sinker ;-) An interesting story told with care and attention.

13.28 then I lost interest

I did

Incredible PUBG Yep same here! Never thought I’d stay!

same

I do the same, funnily enough. I have the biggest dumbest smile on my face the whole time I watch. It just makes me happy, and it's incredibly comforting.

11:13 I feel bad because I’ve watched this video quite a few times and the 5 second pause takes such a dark turn that it’s almost funny; and I let out a quick laugh.

2.3 million now

2.5 ;)

Make that 3.

I got recommened this video today and im glad to say this story touched me even tho im a young guy. Its nice to see art and someones work cherished. It really is.

no, just no

I think that might actually be why youtube recommended it to me :) But i sat and listened to the story instead of leaving it as background. You only get so much good storytelling like this nowadays

Not everything HAS to be ASMR..

No.

pdoherty926 I

I subbed because of this video

pdoherty926 i subbed during the video too. That story actually took tears out of my eyes :-) great story of a craftsman's life !

Yeah, that happens when you learn Japanese. I only studied Japanese for about 8 years, but by year 6 or so, I had a hard time not using Japanese filler words when I was speaking English.

Can you post the time stamp ?

@@lukelemke2783 I find people that do that quite the show offs. I grew up being fully bilingual (English and Spanish) and i never do that. I find it strange.

@Медуса From my understanding, growing up bilingual leads to a more natural understanding of both languages, and the brain does not need to try quite so hard to switch back and forth. Folks who learn a language post adolescence may find that, due to the difficulty of retraining the brain once it has “settled”, it’s just hard for them to use their second language smoothly. Which is why, when someone moves to a country where their first language is not the dominant language, you see some really interesting quirks appear in their first language, where their brain has made new connections (in their second language) and potentially discarded old ones (in their first). Take this guy, who doesn’t really use many English filler words - he has lived in Japan a very long time, and likely uses Japanese more than English, meaning that he has trained his brain to think in Japanese. So in trying to back-translate to his original language, some of those linguistic quirks stick! Another fun example is how a lot of American or English expats will - when needing to be quick - count forwards in their second language and backwards in English, or vice versa. The brain connections for counting forwards and backwards seem to be different because we can engrain such different patterns. Really neat! ... I’m sorry, this is just me geeking out about linguistics for a little while haha, I do agree that some folks can try to be a bit haughty, but overall it’s such an exciting and interesting topic. Sorry to bug ya!

@Lukas Tschoep he does one quietly at 1:09 - listen for the murmur at the end of the in-breath. It’s typical in Japanese to murmur out an “ano” after a pause to indicate that you would still like to speak. And at 1:17 he uses “ano” in another typical way as a filler word, giving him time to think. Once you notice it, it’s hard to stop noticing, haha!

Ito-san was racist and it got him killed.

@@JiggyWatt that escalated quickly

@@JiggyWatt Proof

And than come some people around and looking at Machu Pichu and the Pyramids and say... "the aliens did it". But they just didn´t realise how much lost craftmanship was able to do. What is possible to produce if someone spend his entire life with passion to become a master.

Right? It’s so common for talented people to focus on the mistakes in the work that no one else notices

@@zombieicecreamparty4408 that makes me think i'm not actually that bad at art i do:)

I'm pretty sure he said "the hair is so delicate, ano (ano being "umm" in Japanese)".

@@marekcunderlik6815 oh sorry, i didn't notice that, that makes sense (hej i didn't know ano was that in japanese, how interesting:) wonder if it has anything to do with slavic languages)

@@paadoxal I highly doubt it, japan never really had much interaction historically with slavic countries, so their language wouldn't be influenced by it. I'd say it's just a coincidence.

True

Try convincing a young kid to get out of TikTok and learn a craft that requires patience and practice 🦍

@@Lucasxd331 it would be a lot easier if they weren’t so secretive

@@manurajsinghchauhan8803 How many kids have you seen thanking anyone recently? Because I've seen people learning new things, posting online about it and not crediting anyone for teaching them, reposting other people's videos online with only a mindless greenscreened video of themselves pointing their fingers up as if they are adding something to the content they stole. I would also hide my art away if anyone could copy me, not credit me for it and the art dies anyway because instead of learning the art in earnest, people learned 1/10 of the way for a cool video and move on. Being secretive means that they only share with people as passionate as they are, like the story of Ito told in this video for example.

@@Lucasxd331 I don’t think letting a centuries old tradition slowly die off because some people on the internet seem ungrateful is a sensible position to hold. And I have to assume, isn’t the reason these master carvers held. They were evidently secretive before the internet.

i watched this a year ago and i still get so much more intrest from it. Netflix/anime/socialmedia

Seems like you know exactly why you watched it. ;)

Stories like this don't always come in the form of a series. The reason it's so captivating is that the man telling it has a personal connection to this story spanning decades, a story that has just recently concluded in a manner that would make you ask yourself if it was just meant to be.

RU-vid really has a chokehold on us doesn't it?

@Jake Finley wow

It's "secrets" not "secretes" which actually made me imagine people getting buried with shit

@@lancecadiz1253 wth dude, just chill, its just a spelling mistake

So true about stealing a craft instead of learning a craft. Many people will say they want to learn but don't commit 💯 which becomes frustrating and most craftsman are not great teachers. I have learned more from a craftsman who will not take a apprentice by just hanging out with him and watching him and asking "what are you doing now?" And he would teach me without the pressure of teaching...

@Chandler Burse his comment isn’t that nice and he was being overly critical.

Holy shit that is so thin lol.

Well... damn

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Wouldn't the fact that he showed us a clip of it mean he digitized them?

Ben Stanley hopefully

@@benstanley8825 The clips, he said, were from the TV shows. The tapes were the raw footage that he was asked not to distribute. He did say near the end that he would be making a DVD copy for the family so I expect that he would have his own digital copy to refer to, rather than lugging out the old VCR just to reminisce. So yes he will digitise them but not planning to publish them and he had promised not to even mention receiving them for 10 years.

Ahhh he finally did it!

Don't know what happened to you onward from 2012, but I hope you're situation gets better and you find your peace in life.

exactly 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻🌟🌟🌟

Exaactly!

+Adorable Andray ... I am at a loss of words, dear David. What a POWERFUL and moving story (I'd hate to call it just "video")! Felt like 4-6 minutes to me. Too short! And magic, and fascinating. Thank you for this, big time! It was a very-very good day when you decided to share your work on youtube.

Ano is anus in Spanish lol. As a Spanish speaker, I was so confused when I first started watching anime.

You're a fucking weeb

yo momma and you’re an obnoxious twat.

Eehhhhhh so so so so

Well, he has clearly lived there a very long time. He has the classic backstory of wishing to move to Japan to follow a craft or art and finding out that no real experience means your job is teaching ESL, haha. It's no surprise he has acquired an accent.

omae wa..

@@Raven-wr4hm shindeiru

Chibaku Tensei

@@KalinoursEU Kimi no* Only an english speaker would understand :)

@Madina It's just a word inserted to string together thoughts, like 'and, uh'.

+AdaptiveReasoning I'm there with you. Heart breaking even through I do not know him. Great respect.

I know right. Such a great narrator and story. I literally have no idea what this printing is but ive sat through this whole video fascinated, and i wanna see more

Respect on steroids 8'-)

Guys, I've came back and rewatched this several times, and it was a great story and I love this guys passion for his art and can genuinely relate to loving an art so much- and beyond that, I find inspiration for my own particular arts/hobbies, EVEN on days where I feel very unmotivated/ lacking in passion myself, he manages to inspire me in this video with the love for his craft, so this video is very great, but.. crying? Seriously ? Ha. Come on now!!

Saaaaame

Lucas Soares same

Lol ikr I caught that too, it's so subtle I have a feeling anyone unfamiliar didn't even notice.

What do you mean? Can u explain?

@@amistry605 I'm pretty sure ano is the japanese equivalent of "um"

@@YaYeetBeet ohhh ok thanks

Time ?

Lead up to the above quote. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ij9KXgiyDAc.html

Glasses&Mouthplates I’m a wut?

You're a wizard harry

Youre a communist, Stalin!

bwahaha

this is perfect

I fell asleep twice - so far, wake up rewind and continue

ASMR

THE KID FROM BROOKLYN DAT CAAAAM

ano, ruh roh

Lucky for that Woodblock that Shaggy was only using 0.000000001% of his power.

Shall we call a doctor? :-) Thanks!

Already did. He prescribed a instant channel subscription and at least a few videos from your channel a day until I am caught up ^_^.

Sounds good to me ... but don't 'drink' too much all at once!

Verily I shall savour the "taste" rather than gorging ^_^.

George unintentional asmr is the greatest💜

@@gloriouspurpose18 yeah, it's great to make me fall asleep >.

True True, but such an amazing story

If it feels like ASMR, it is ASMR.

Asmr can be anything that relaxes you even a person screaming in agony

this piece of wood not ended !

S, not s

Save it for later ... go to sleep! :-)

@@seseragistudio Too late, it's 06:16 in the morning🥹🥹

Enough time has passed

She said to keep it under his hat for 10 years, probably meant the footage as well.

He honoured her wishes, of ten years

Ironically 2.1 now

Alex Smith asmr

And of course thank you for sharing this wonderful and enlightening story.

Was thinking the same.

I find it more interesting that the Japanese have only a single filler word, perhaps Dave only learned one and there are countless more used by native speakers.

From what little I understand of it, there are a few different words but they're used in specific situations and have subtle difference in meaning. I think there's an Abroad in Japan video about this but I can't remember which one.

Malta I'm pretty sure a lot use just a sort of "ehhh..." sound, and I'm fairly certain that "Eto" is also another pausing word.

He already said he's making DVD copies for the carver's daughter.