The Link Between Japanese Samurai and Real Indigo
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ธ.ค. 2017
- Real indigo-dyed clothing is not like the blue you know. Richer than the chemical blues used on most fabrics today, real indigo dye comes from a plant and has a surprising range of qualities: on fabric it is antibacterial, flame resistant and repels odor and dirt. With roots in Japanese culture dating back to the 1600s, indigo-dyed fabrics were worn under the armor of samurais to help keep bacteria from wounds. Today, five farmers keep the tradition of growing indigo alive in Tokushima, Japan.
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It reminds me of how people are always saying that ninjas wore black but they actually wore indigo because it's a more natural color and it blends in with the night
Christian Collins
Thats thought provoking💡
Makes sense.
Christian Collins :O
@Anonymous Anonymous Only when they are fighting dreamers
make sense because at some point in japan, everyone wear blue clothes. Although the first black 'ninja suit' maybe never exist in the first place, it just adapted from japanese drama
The dedication of these people is incredible. I couldn't put in so much of my energy towards making dye and using it if I tried.
yup
Thank you so much for the recommendation!
@D-MMA - Okay, I will! Thank you for the suggestion!
And then you have Logan Shithead Paul taking advantage of these hardworking, dedicated people, thinking he can go about his racist, disrespectful self there. My fucking god does he need to have his face punched in for what he did in Japan.
Toaster Strooder let’s go blooooo
I'm so amazed by the Japanese people. Very passionate in what they do yet humble.
Francis Sao very.
Brian Smith well, thanks to our laziness we were able to figure out a way how to mass produce stuff and reduced cost.
blackearl7891 We found out how to do that thanks to cheap Eastern labour...
That Fella as we did with various other colors. Indigo isn't the only color we found a cheaper dye for.
Antonio Robinson What are you talking about lol? Seems like your mad about nothing, yet you're making a commotion...
I actually love the passion real indigo producers have!
Does anybody else thinks like that? "ok one more video" but instead just non stop
no everyone's like that
Edvisss LTU me
STRAIGHT FROM THE PLANT
Out of the blue
@@Stray___ yo this was 3 years ago 😂
@@drk_8984 😆
The Japanese soccer team are known as the "Blue Samurai", now I know why pretty cool.
@GreatBigStory you are by far one of the best channels on TH-cam. Seriously. Thank for this.
Not only is the indigo Color gorgeous but it also has practical uses and a rich history :) thanks for sharing this and fascinating us Great Big Story :)
Japanese are such passionate people.
Sometimes too passionate...
Yep
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I thought indigo was just a crayon color
lol
I'm pretty sure half the people that watched this thought that too lmao.
Same
Indigo is a color too so youre not wrong.
That was awesome! I REALLY hope they pass this on to others before it's too late.
We need to use more of this since it seems to be so useful
This is the context that I want to hear things about Japan.
Not a shitty youtuber's incredibly sacrilegious act.
tokuchaan yeah, unfortunately particular idiots who have easy to influence fans with fame can sometimes get away with dumb stuff, or they get hate, and people forget about it in a month.
This is REALLY interesting, especially about the sanitary properties contained in real indigo dye. Wow. Very cool!
Fascinating. I love this channel!
Those leaves are just flipping out.
I bow for their incredible work. Amazing😍😍
Once again always inspired by this channel
"Jeans? They're dyed from a chemical. But real indigo, straight from the plant is also a chemical." FTFY
I thought the same man I always liked loved this channel it makes learning cool
beautiful tradition must go on
Happy New Year @Great Big Story
I love japan their traditions and hard work to keep these traditions alive will never cease to amaze me
I love how this is shining a light on the hard work it takes to make certain products. This is quality over quantity for sure.
In terms of history, the production of indigo dye from plants is over 6000 years old. Indigo was a really popular dye with my Persian forebears thousands of years ago. However, Japanese Indigo/Denim is Fantastic.
Nice. Thanks for the look into something I never knew about!
incredible, truly , the hard work that goes In to it especially the knowledge of what these leaves/other plants with similar color can achieve when being stripped I love that True colors have True benefits since its naturally pulled .it gives a deep blue color and a protection barrier from infection I feel like people should invest more in these type of clothing. I can see a great benefit for hikers or police /nursing protection etc.
I love that mindset of doing something right, that's the way it always should be. 🙏
This makes me so happy :3 indigo is my favorite color to use in painting the other being prussian blue.thank you for tgis :3
Stunning craft. From start to finish.
I have always enjoyed watching artist who have a deep passion for the arts. This video is a testimony of what "passion" is.... =)
Awesome, thanks for sharing
This colour is common in the lacing for Samurai armour, as it's believed to represent both good luck and victory; two things Samurai hope for in battle. I believe (if I am wrong someone please correct me) the Uesugi clan under Kenshin dyed their banners Indigo, which proved appropriate as Kenshin won most battles.
My grandfather had used that color dyed before. It was cool to watch the cloth become new again.
*WOAH*
kiminari Denkai *Technology!!!*
Joel Robert Justiawan Ikr
Great content again
Not too sure but my parents used to use the indigo dye for something. Not to dye clothes but for something medicinal.
But then I was quite young and don't believe a blue powder gonna do anything.
Such a gorgeous color 💙💙💙
I've actually made a small indigo cloth in an indigo dying shop in Hirosaki.
Me too!! Could it be the same shop?😄
@@francescopojoga3794 quite possibly. Near neputa-mura?
@@zizimugen4470 unfortunately I didn’t have the fortune to go in person....Im just really passionate about indigo, so I called a friend in Japan and he dyed some tshirts for me. He lives in hirosaki and the indigo atelier is just near the “castle”......I can’t even describe the beauty of the natural color in person...🤩
Quite expensive btw
@@francescopojoga3794 yeah, south of the castle, that’s probably the one! I have a video of it somewhere deep on my page, I think.
@@zizimugen4470 the shop was Kawasaki somekojo...something like that I just checked! What did you dye?
Most Respect for these ARTIST!!!
Interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Lovely color. I wish you've shown which ones are the ones which aged beautifully, like that dye-person said. So that we can see the comparison of the freshly-inked cloth to the aged cloth.
Also, why not do a series for coloring clothing? For example, violet, which was hard to obtain before, and like this vid on indigo, find out how the practitioners/farmers still fare.
10! btw love your vids and keep it up!
Please dont ever quit 😭😭😭😭!!!
Super interesting !!! 👌
I have a new love for things indigo now.
Beautiful.
I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT DENIM!!!!! FINALLY!!!
I love this. I love the color too eversince. 💗💗💗
Amazing!!
This is why our football national team is called “Samurai Blue”
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My name’s Indigo so watching this is really surreal. It’s nice to finally learn a bit about it.
The name indigo has it origins from the name 'India'. It is also known as 'blue gold' due to its value.
No. ancient India exported it to Greeks. that's where name came from.
@@MrNyathi1 came doesnt always mean invented. Just like if i ship so.ething from my house doesnt mean i invented it there lol
@@MrNyathi1main comment was about origins in which u still commented that it still came from there implying that u still think it originates from there. Thats why I gave u the difference. it wasnt meant to be spelled correctly since its my unique username but nice try wannabe smart guy
it looks so nice
Woah! What a shot! 2:26
i love this color soooo much.
They would make a killing on Etsy, or better yet make their own website detailing why their products are so special.
Oouuh they all look SO beautiful 💕
Wow, I have a pair of g-star brand jeans that are dyed with real indigo. I never knew how special they really were until I saw this!
i need this
NOW
The art of indigo is amazing
Beautiful
hmm interesting. i learn something new on this channel everytime
I always thought indigo was a purple hue. What a beautiful color!
Learned something new today
beautiful.
Beautiful 💙
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Hell yea man
Ever hear of something called “an accent”
UndeadDawn no
sanjay srivatsan wel you know how I’m india in each state even tho they speak the same language they still sound different. That’s called an accent. (I know you were being sarcastic).
sanjay srivatsan I know, I saw your name. That’s why used the india example it’s easier to relate to. Like how I’m Gujarat they all speak Gujarati but the way one region speaks Gujarati is different from how another does.
UndeadDawn gujju maharaj
That guys nails are dope af 🔥🔥
this is just pure art. they should preserve this. the world should not be making more chemicals. i would prefer having this. and the color looks insanely beautiful
Awesome, the true color of the warrior. I did not know this (heads will roll). How does one become an indigo apprentice.
that's such an unique colour
The price is sooo expensive. But totally worth the value.
i love the music
So it has a lot of functionality to it as well as looking incredible, the natural ability for wound protection as well as a natural fire retardant would have made it the obvious choice for use. It’s incredible to discipline these people possess to continue doing their craft the old way to be true to it self is respectable and these people should be proud of wonderful masterpieces they create
My mom said this very interesting so thanks for posting this video :)
I learned so much about REAL indigo.
nice one
Great!
Truly the masters of the bluest of blues.
Japan. Keeping it real since always.
Makes me wonder who was the first person to make the process for all this. What made them does all this to the leaves? Was it by accident? I would have liked to hear more on that.
Real indigo is also a chemical, a naturally occurring chemical. The word that you were looking for is 'synthetic'. Please stop using the word 'chemical' as a pejorative term and use the correct terms.
We'll never get them to stop having bias against "chemicals".
rosenjcb then stop drinking H2O, breathing O2, eating proteins, carbohydrates and fats. Don't eat your food with Himalayan sodium chloride, stop using your SiO2 and silicon devices doped with germanium arsenide, indium and tin. Don't take ascorbic acid from your organic orange juice. Don't take acetyl salicylic acid when you have a headache. And don't use 2,2'-bis(2,3-dihydro-3-oxoindolyliden) as a dye for your blue jeans naturally occurring or synthetic that is.
You must be fun at parties
'The Appeal to Nature' is a very common logical fallacy. And it's easy to abuse it to sell a product. People will continue to do this, no matter how many complaints result, since it sells a product. This product can be a plant-based dye, or it could be a video that generates ad revenue. Their word choice was made deliberately, not out of ignorance.
Ruben Galvan hahaha ... Yeah... Right!
Guess I know what I'll be using to craft my armor now :D
bless Japan
Wayne Palmar until Logan Paul ruined it
Tristanators ...... I’d still bless Japan
Now i wanna buy something they dyed indigo.
God bless the Japanese and their culture of craftsmanship.
Absolutley gorgeous
IT'S ON TRENDING!!
Cool.
WE WENT TO TOKUSHIMA THANKS TO A GREAT OPPORTUNITY BY OUR SCHOOL AND WE GOT TO EXPERIENCE INDIGO DYEING AND THE NARUTO WHIRLPOOL! AS WELL AS THE AWA ODORI FESTIVAL!
If you guys need another farm hand, I'm interested!
I need that
Natural indigo dyed fabrics are divine
We miss you
0:04 Wait, Modern blue denim jeans are dyed with synthetic indigo. The same chemical indigo synthesised in certain plants but produced at industrial scale.