Five Fascinating Ancient Japanese Traditions Survived Centuries | Still Standing | Insider Business

🇧🇷🇧🇷 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 ? 🇧🇷🇧🇷

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!

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.

I know of this man HES AMAZING

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

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

My brain just loves these videos.

Only 5? Japan is a true artisan community. ❤

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

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

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!! ❤❤❤❤❤

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

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.

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.

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

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

$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.

Covid destroyed all businesses globally… unnecessarily. Don’t be sheep again.

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...

God I bet that soy sauce is sublime

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.

Preserve Japanese culture; avoid ending up like Western Europe.

Encourage the conservation and continuation of traditional Japanese customs, practices, and values.

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.

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

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

So much work for a disappointing taste.

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. :)

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

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

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

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. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🍬🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵

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

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

What's the name of that wagashi store?

This series is good but they reuse content so much lol

Japanese culture is fascinating

Really appreciate artisans who uphold tradition over profit and convenience

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

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

Lol. Centuries of traditions reduced down to just five. USA USA USA! WE DID THAT! You sucker punch us!!!??? We kill off your entire history! USA! USA! USA!

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

These people need Jesus.

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.

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

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 😅😂

I wanna taste the fancy shoyu soooo badddd

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