Why Japanese calligraphy ink is so expensive.
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Why Japanese calligraphy ink is so expensive. #calligraphy #ink #Japan
Japans appreciation for High quality artistry is truly admirable
I sure hope that when ai art becomes a commercial thing japan would still respect man-made art
Killing animals to make stupid ink🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Can't say the same thing about Mangas though. Their creators are one of the least paid artists ever
@@LeafyLumens do you eat meat?
@@davranbekrozmetov9425 And anime
Man for a sec i really just accepted that there was a 450 year old Japanese man who dedicated centuries to making calligraphy ink
There is..... did you not watch the video? He's right there /s
Imagine how shrivelled he'd be...
Like a pickled Yoda.
Nah...$1000.00 Japanese Calligraphy Ink is also the secret to Immortality.
He must be so tired.
japanese have the genetic ability to produce things in an overcomplicated/ceremonial manner... 😮
ink, paper, tea, tea-drinkig ceremony (cha-no-yu), dress code (kimonos), harakiri, seppuku, poetry (about falling leaf or cherry tree), making swords... and probably every aspect of everyday life... 🤔😮🤷♂️
no lie, the ink in the beginning looks like such a cool thing to fidget with
I wonder if you would enjoy kneaded erasers? The ink reminded me of that! It's is kinda like putty, and gets softer as you work it
And to get dirty with D:
I suggest getting into baking bread then. Just try not to use your feet.
@@justmo6208 But that's where all the flavor comes from! /jk
@@awkwardpawsome Bread with cheese always tastes great
That Japanese man dedicated 450 years of his life on Japanese Calligraphy Ink. That's such true dedication on that man's heart and mind.
A true legend
No wonder why the ink smells cheesy, vinegary, sweaty, and ripe. It all makes sense now 👣
Props to the man , stayed alive for 450 years just to make ink
Traditional values..
Gotta be that daily foot massage.
He is 40 but worked for the equivalent of 450 years. Asians are on another lvl
Master Roshi
🤣🤣😂Yep, I thought the same thing too.
That's journalism for yah.😉
@@munkyjammins because the company is named the same thing i think
This man has made ink for 450 years? That's crazy.
It's the company name lol. 450 years of experience seems to be what companies want for starting positions tho
I said something similar lol damn, dudes a pro 😂
@@b.c.9358🤣🤣🤣😂
I was just thinking about this😂
I'm telling people always think outside of the Box if you're passionate about something do it for thousands of years you'll be immortal
That guy is 40 years old, but has been making ink for 450 years. Now that is dedication.
@Rice ok
@Rice ok
Overtime
@rice2232 k
@Rice pull the dam box down lol
I still can’t wrap my head around the fact that some things in Japan originate centuries ago and still go strong
Edit: okay everyone, let’s be civilized here. You know better than to bash each other
Found the American. There is loads of Asian and European countries that have things going on for as long or longer.
Yeah here in America that doesn't happen
Edit: Damn you guys are quick to seek conflict. I meant because we're young.
Quality products deserve to stand the test of time
That's the result of culture & tradition being an expression of nationalism - it helps when a large part of the culture is art, crafts and honoring the elders who pass them down (and in general) instead of colonization, guns and McDonald's 😂
Well they had centuries to refine their processes to optimize for quality. Industrial processes have had less time for refinement, and are typically optimized for economic viability with quality only being one factor of that. Even the Japanese had to make that compromise to compete, but there will always still be some demand for higher quality traditional goods.
I’m Japanese and love the respect we still have for original handmade craftsmanship. It’s not the easiest way but it’s part of our history and is highly respected.
This is why I ❤ made in Japan products because I know it would be high quality! The Japanese take pride in their heritage, tradition and craftsmanship! Plus being a Filipino American, I am quite partial to Japanese made products (and food) because my motherland and Japan have a close relationship , being allies and all. 😊
It's true, the Japanese put a lot of craftsmanship and beauty in everything that's deemed traditional. I hope that commitment never goes away. You have a remarkable culture.
Im sure a lot of craftsmanship went into Pearl Harbor
@@CaligulatheEmperor I hate WWII Imperial Japan more than you ever could they were rats. Still weird comment from you
How do you use solid ink?
Japan never ceases to amaze me. I hope the people who made these are doing well.
japanese government is fucked up though
They're all dead I'm afraid 💀
@@unb3k44n7 Some of them or their descendants are doing well I hope
@@dfquartzidn6151 they're 450 years old though 😆
ong skin obsorbing all that cancer
theres always that one japanese guy that makes everything hand crafted by themselves and has been doing it for centuries
Foot crafted*
@OwO okay, I won't.
@OwO don’t worry, nobody is😂
I use ballpoint pens 😐 wonder how that ink is made.
@@Chicanoking aand that's how you end up down a youtube rabbit hole lol
The kind of experience job interviewers want you to have:
Uh oh.....we saw it.🫣
This ink is the fountain of youth we’ve been hearing about.
For that price, it better be
More like the fountain of foot cancer.
Indeed it is
@@FemaleFullmetalso you don't think the the time intensive technique in the time it takes to make it you think the price is too much.... Imagine that.. it's something you don't need to ever worry about sweetheart
@@FemaleFullmetalit is the price of his labour so it is a reasonable price
When you're 40 years old but the job requires 450 years of experience.
LMFAAOOOO!!!
Leave it to Asians man
That's rough
Typical job post in America
It’s the company name…not his name…silly
Dude reincarnated himself multiple times to make ink for 450 years old. What madlad
That time I got reincarnated as a ink stick
@@SweetAkornnoooooo 😭😭
Literally not even a joke with those titles nowadays
@@SweetAkorn Inkekai
His work ethic is unmatched, employee of the century.😎
I am western, but I have a great affinity for Sumi ink sticks. If you’ve never used a good quality, Sumi stick you’re missing out on one of Life’s great pleasures. It’s a slow meditative process, running the ink for the wet stone to form the creamy slightly runny ink fresh each time the smell that’s released. I don’t know what they perfume it with, but it’s incredible and so every time you use it, it builds up memory of using it and, the way it holds onto the page because the ink molecules are flowing freely in the solution so the ink stays put where you brush it and even if the water absorbs fully into the paper, the ink stays put so it doesn’t smear and get blotchy it’s part calligraphy parts sculpting as you change the shape of the brush to create different shapes on the paper
I'm downright green with envy😊. I love that you cherish the whole process, from beginning to end. I love that there are people who value and honour this craftsmanship.. it's spiritual indeed.
Sumi in Japan is basically made of pine soot &
animal glue. Perhaps it’s the pine soot you’re smelling.
Ahhh... another lover of the processes that give us our artistic tools! 🥰
I... I think I'll just stick to doodling with my 25 cent pens, the chemical smell of ball point ink pens is the best
@@Gozieaaa
MANY…lol…truly many years ago I went to school for graphic design. Computers were just in the infancy of coming to the general public. The college I went to offered one Mac class and one non-Mac class. (Yes, one good one, one not… Yes, obviously, I am biased.) I had to take PageMaker, which was easier to understand, but I liked Photoshop a whole lot better. (I now know why, I’m a photographer.)
Anyway…I digress…
Everything was still really done by hand back then. So I got to take a bunch of very interesting classes & got to work with a lot of very interesting supplies. One of them was Ink.
I also went to work for a friend of mine who ‘just happen to own’ the largest art supply store in the entire area where I was living. So I got exposed to even more supplies… and spend a lot of my check back at the same store. Sumi was one of them. There were, I don’t know if they’re still are, practice calligraphy pads. One could use just water and practice brushstrokes. We had a sample set up for people to try, which meant that I got to try it out a lot for free. Sadly because of my finances, I only got to use Sumi a little bit. India Ink was the stuff I used on a regular basis. I used it predominantly in technical pens, but also by brush when I had large areas to cover on poster pieces. Once one learns ‘technical pens, & knows the difference, using ‘regular’ ‘ball point’ or ‘sharpies’ is laughable.
I’m so grateful that I ‘had’ to learn things by hand, not via computer. I quickly understood that if one used a computer they would be only as good as whoever wrote the program. There are obviously a lot more programs/apps today, but my bias still stands.
One way to learn about Japan & Japanese culture is to watch NHK (Japanese public broadcasting) I believe that most cities in the US have it run through their local PBS stations, that is available online as well. If you were to go online and put in ‘NHK-TV Japan USA’ their website would pop up. Through the online site when you can watch their live television, but one can also watch things that they have run in the past. They have a lot of excellent programming through ‘On Demand.’
I have seen several segments of programs that discussed Sumi ink & the grinding stones. Once on their site, and in On Demand, do a search for Sumi. Shows will pop up. They will be (perhaps all) ‘travel’ shows where folks went to see, & talk with Artisans. NHK has shown a lot of programs about various Crafts and Craftsmen (& now Craftswomen).
I found NHK about 12 years ago. Today their programming makes up at least 50% of the television that I watch. Sadly I’m sure that some of the programs I saw in the past are no longer available. Realistically they only have so much memory space & they run programming in many languages. That’s when I got into Sumo… just a vowel away…LOL.
Check it out, I guarantee you will learn lots of interesting things.
Peace,
Kevin
This man looks AMAZING for 450!
Can’t believe he worked for 4 centuries and still loves his job! Respect👊👊
@@trangnguyen7845 Right? I usually start to burn out around the year mark! 😂
@@earcher Can’t even make it to year 230? Casuals
@@remn3nt266 I bring shame to my family 😞
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Imagine starting a job, and your first paycheck isn't for 4 years.
Sounds a bit like unpaid training and interning, turned to the highest degree.
@@nottechytutorials right, but it had to start somewhere. Blows my mind.
I would assume that it's a longstanding family business that they've been in for generations, meaning there is already ink being sold and cash reserves on hand, or maybe if it's a new ink maker it works like parmesan cheese in Italy and banks will accept the ink blocks as collateral in a loan because they're an appreciating asset.
It's a business bro not a job
They never mentioned he's hiring workers
Yes. Most things worth anything require years to master or otherwise to produce to get the end product.
He’s the only man in Japan that’s allowed the keep his shoes on, in the house 😂
But does he squat on the toilet, and if not why does everyone else?
@@dananorth895 Huh?
@@dananorth895 You drunk?
@@dananorth895 what are you intending to say in your message?
@@harfanse
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
I like how we all immediately thought they were saying that this man has been making ink for 450 years
Must be worded poorly, but what was she trying to say? That the technique is 450 years old?
“Hi, I’d like a job. I’m 40 years old.”
“Sorry, this job requires 450 years of experience.”
"Hi, I'd like to repeat the same joke that half of the top comments have already made."
"Say no more; here's your 1000s of likes."
@John Martinez why do you care? You speak as if they are getting money from the likes; ps they're not. Try to just not pay attention to it.
@@sxppy-9991 Well having standard is good, I don't want the top comments full of undeserved spammers.
@milefiori that's the thing, deserving of what? The simple tap of a button? It's not going to fill the void you have man...
@@johnmartinez7440 yeah, people have made this same joke a few times in the comments now lmao, I wonder if it's great minds thinking alike. Pure coincidence, or if people are just copying one another
He put his heart and sole into this 💀
Haha! I see what you did there.
Nice haha
"Mha hart, mah sole"
no wonder dark soles was made by the japanese
erm, ACTUALLY, it is spelled “soul” you absolute dimwit 🤓
An interesting thing is that the red ink in historical Chinese calligraphy was sometimes made by grinding cinnabar into an emulsion and mulling it until extremely fine before allowing it to dry and then performing a similar process to knead it into a stable ink stick. I'd imagine that people who made such inks often had short life expectancies as cinnabar is a mercury containing mineral.
Imagine having heavy metal poisoning back then. I've recently researched how that effects your body, it's horrible.... But I'm still in awe seeing this masterpiece of craftsmanship performed.
18th and 19th century hat makers often used mercury to treat felt, the exposure of that lead to insanity more often then not, this is why we have the phrase "mad as a hatter"
Cinnabar sounds like a delicious snack.
@@Bruss813 Right?! Like something you'd pack in a kid's lunchbox for recess lol
Inorganic mercury isn’t much of a threat. Not great, but not terrible. Organic mercury compounds like Me_2Hg or EtHg are the ones you really need to watch out for. Basically if a heavy d or p block metal is bound to a carbon chain or ring you do not want it absorbed into your body.
I found all the process fascinating, but especially, the way they tied the ink bars in neat batches. Those impeccably balanced bars with perfect knots... Amazing.
The kind of guy a company wants, 40 years old with 450 years of experience.
It seems like this guy is a celestial being
putting that on my resume to see if I get hired 🥴
It’s the company name
😂😂😂😂
My ink smells like feet
As someone who’s been making ink for only 215 years, this makes me feel like a spring chicken.
loooooooolllll u made me laugh! thank u so much i was feeling down the whole day
😂
You call that making ink?
Only *215* years?? 🙄
Please. You couldn't give your in away... 215 years... psh...
Rookie!!!
X
Man’s feet have 450 years of strength, that’s crazy
My guy could kick down a building at this point
The man who can kick airplane without pain-
I bet it smells good
Japan is the last civiled NORMAL culture left on the planet. Europe has been overrun by gorillas who are ghettoizing that landscape to shit. Same with America and others.
and here I am thinking I won't reach to be 65years of age...better get my ink game on 😂
The ink of his feet extended his life from 40-50 to 450 years. Props to the ink.
Japan takes anything and just push it to the next level. You will hear something like: "This is Haruto, it took him 12 years to master the art of polishing black shoes for parties and another 10 years for brown shoes."
and by next level you mean doing everything by hand, while the rest of the world industrilizes their processes to produce as much product as possible at a cheaper price and cost ? thats not next level, thats yesterdays level from our ancestors.
“The Japanese are like the rest of humanity, only more so.”
"the Japanese having developed the simple act of drinking water into an art form. It is done once a day in a ceremony that takes exactly one hour and 42 minutes"
Now go home and get your 20 year shinebox
They are good at marketing their stuff, just like the Swiss are.
Still cheaper than printer ink
Hp 😂
Honestly, if you look at how much liquid the sticks can make, probably.
Literally I just buy a new printer when it runs out atp 😭 I can’t afford ink but the printer with it is cheap
@@iamyourmother47buy a laser printer
Never buy HP. They charge you for printing pages on a printer you paid for
I’m Japanese and when my Great grandmother died she gave me a whole calligraphy kit including this in a 90year old wooden sakura box. It’s my favorite object in the entire world.
How do they use this ink block
@@m.lucyin8863I’m guessing a wet brush it used to pick up the ink and then write or paint with it
That’s an amazing inheritance 🥰
@@m.lucyin8863you have to grind it with water.
I received a stick at my graduation from medical school. I had always wanted one since my teens and my baba promised I would get it when I finished school. To write with it is a dream.
The lettering is so beautiful.
And I thought computer printer ink was expensive
Yep. Nothing can beat computer ink. It's handmade by little elves working 24/7 by turning gold into ink liquid.
A stick of Sumi can last years, so it's worth the price. Printer ink can be more expensive, really.
@@aaronwatkins8973printer
@@krishnancom no dumba s s
I reckon this must be where it comes from judging by the price. So yes you're probably right.
Calligraphy means long life. The ink has health properties which are absorbed thru the skin into the bloodstream and gives him long life. His age is 472. He started making ink when his 22 years of age with his grandfather.
🙇
Calligraphy means beautiful writing
@@Menelaosmintokleineis bro understand the sarcasm 😅
I want to believe
I knew I had to be eating pens for a reason as a kid
i remember when this dude opened up, me and the samurai would always buy from him, and boy am i proud of how good he's become.
💀
Once you have just ONE more like, it will be 666 likes. Then he shall surely come for you.
@@fullofbullets58no one finds 666 funny bro
hey, are you Asato from the Sakura village? we used to spare all the time back on the feudal era!
Only kids from the Sengoku period will remember when this guy started up. Good ol days.
I can't get over the fact that they said softer than a rice cake....
I assume they mean softer than mochi which is VERY soft
I've bought his ink for 450 years. Highly recommend 👍
Nice
Truly a dedicated customer 😂
You lie. It takes at least four years of aging before the ink can ge sold. That means you can only have been a customer for the past 446 years!
Likes 667....no longer the number of the Beast 666 😆😂
I been a customer for 200 years, still recommended
Just imagine how much ink has been absorbed into this man's skin. I wonder if his hands and feet are permanently blackened after 450 years of doing this.
It's a soot based ink 🤔....
I don't really know but I doubt it penetrates to skin the same way it does paper. I suspect part of the process must involve washing the soot which would remove water soluble components too.
I'd guess it's easy to wash off.
@@charmio there would probably be quite a bit of residue if he's been doing it for 450 years
Yeah, I'd assume his feet and hands are permanently stained. I'd assume cancer is pretty prevalent working there too.
If he's been doing it for 450 years and hasn't gotten cancer yet, I doubt he will.
Probably not.
Sumi doesn't stain like India ink, or common ballpoint ink.
It's very washable by design as it's used with water.
I tend to get it all over the side of one finger and have for decades, and it comes off every time.
I get that he's producing and it's basically like water-usage, but again, it's water soluble.
I appreciate them going back in time to show us the original 450 year old ink being made. Wonderful work
I liked the joke so I will comment and like first cheers 🍻
It was a one way ticket unfortunately. The video was later found in the attic of a relative where it was discovered later on 😂😂😂
Lol
lol
It looks really fun to play with lol
ikr I need a cheap stim toy version of this but there's no way it wouldn't then be made of cheap toxic plastic :(
Chiropractors when the card declines:
oh thats brutal
😂😂ayo
I don't get it.
ong 💀💀
i had a really bad day and i needed this laugh. thank you. 😭😭😭
School: don’t write on yourself you’ll get ink poisoning.
These guys:
@@Solar_cloudsnah it’s a myth. Ink poisoning require such a large amount of ink, and it’s usually artificial materials. He’s 100 percent safe.
@@Solar_cloudsu think soot, glue or perfume would harm you? Even a ballpoint pen contains so little ink that u won’t get poisoned
I feel like this the type of thing that would worry Americans, cause their immune system is shit(?) I have never heard anyone giving warnings about ink poisoning.
@@hmangaihzuala9830 I believe it was mainly an issue of trying to get kids to stop writing on themselves so much
@@hmangaihzuala9830 sorry we have clean air
This guy has 450 years of experience and is only 50 years old, he's the guy employers are looking for.
Almost like you repeated the same joke the top comment made!
@@johnmartinez7440 It's almost as they all watched the same video and can have similar ideas!
Seriously though, everyone is talking about it, nobody stole from anyone. The main point of interest is in the video saying he's done it for 450 years and and just because someone got the most likes doesn't mean he was the one to do it first
@@NamelessKnightt But does it need to repeated 50 times? I know they saw the other “copy paste” comments.
@@NamelessKnightt But the video doesn't even say that which makes the repeated jokes all saying the same thing stand out more. The narrator names the man at the start and then later names the store/business when she says they've been making ink for 450 years.
@@kwasiahenkora6583 No it doesn't, I'm just pointing out nobody stole from anyone
The abillity for japanese people to take almost any given tradecraft, skill or art and maticulously form it into something of sheer precisicion mixed with extreme mastery.
Its astonoshing to watch anything relating to such.
For your information, the company's name was "Kobaien," not the man. The company has been making ink for 450 years.
nah the ink gave him immortality and he produces it to stay alive, duh
Hahahaha
He was cursed by the gods to make ink for all eternity.
Thank You Mr. Obvious
Yeah I thought the guy was 450 years old 🙄
This isn’t just ink this is art I applaud these workers for keeping this art alive
I applaud him for still being alive!
It's whatever, he's been training for 450 years
No, it is ink. Says so right in the video
Yeah I'm not paying a $1000 just for ink. Cheap ink works just as well.
@@jaxsazerac4904Except you will pay $1000 for some designer clothes.
It’s true I’ve ordered ink from this dude for roughly 450 years, best ink out there without a doubt
Same here, been buying his calligraphy ink for 367 years. Best ink i ever bought
I didn’t see it advertised until about 236 years ago so I really missed out for a while
Damn, I've only been ordering for 189 years
dang ya'll old af, just 132 here.
I’ve been ordering for 310 years only. Tradition in my fam
Japan has such an intricate culture, and I feel like that resonates in every single aspect of Japan lol
I've watched the longer documentary on this, and it is absolutely amazing. The commitment to a craft and the quality of that craft is phenomenal.
Japanese are top asians, the koreans.
Commitment? He's only been doing it for 450 years. Barely a hobby.
What’s the documentary called
where can I find such documentaries?
I use this Japanese ink for Arabic calligraphy. It is the best type of ink I’ve ever used for calligraphy.
* I have to add that the ink I use contains resin instead of animal glue. And yes, I am Muslim. And I write primarily verses of the Quran or Hadeeth. By the way, my profile picture depicts my full name in Square Kufic Script.
And calligraphy is nowadays primarily a niche of design and still demanded and important. Quran for example has to be handwritten. There's no editor yet which can replace calligraphy for Quran. And this goes as well for other texts.
How do you make it into liquid?
@@BrendonHoppy you pour some water on the ink
Found the Dubai royalty
@@Fridgeson_ that’s what probably happens. I bought it as a liquid. The problem is that it is sometimes too thick and it’s shiny which causes issues when you try to scan the calligraphic artwork. But generally speaking it has good rhelogical properties and worked for me with most of the papers I use.
@@BrendonHoppy you put some water in an ink dish, then slowly grind the ink stick in the water until you get the color you want.
I really hope this kind of hand made stuff doesn't go away. It's precious and incredibly important.
It's gonna be gone when people don't want to pay 1000$ for it lol
You nena foot-made
Mean😂**
@@thecatthatgotaway but there's, hopefully, always be someone willing to do so, I know that if I had the enough green I'd do so at least haha
Broski. It's kinda footmade. Didn't you watch the video?
Japanese craftsmanship is on a whole other level.
So ink is 90% ink and 10% foot. Awesome
Find out how they "stomp" your cocaine you morons sniff you might appreciate this more.
Remember we used to make wine by those
@@Immaguyhereyeah and it had that delicious Doritos flavor too
My weeb ass would not only buy it because it's Made in Japan, it was made by japanese hands. 🗿.
@@gdboy1232Do you also support gay people not being able to marry? Because thats a decision made by Japanese hands.
Do you sympathise with the people that ran unit731? Because they had Japanese hands.
Do you support the sexual assault of women? Because the judges that give the culprits a mere slap on the wrist have Japanese hands.
Do you support the dumping of tons of nuclear waste into the ocean despite other countries pleading them not to? Because Japanese hands signed that bill.
Do you support the breaking into Australian whale sanctuarys to murder endangered whales? Because that was done by Japanese hands.
Do you support the hiding and terrible ‘apologies’ they have given to the Chinese and Koreans for what they did in the war and unit 731? Because they had Japanese hands.
Japan is a huge country full of incredible sights and sounds, its also full of awful things just like any country. Japanese people don’t shit cotton candy, they shit like the rest of us. To act like you would kiss the ground of something purely because it is made from the same country that made anime or something else you like is disturbing and fetishising a country.
Gotta love the dedication of Japanese people love em
japanese have the genetic ability to produce thingsvin an overcomplicated/ceremonial manner... 😮
ink, paper, tea, tea-drinkig ceremony (cha-no-yu), dress code (kimonos), harakiri, seppuku, poetry (about falling leaf or cherry tree), making swords... and probably every aspect of everyday life... 🤔😮🤷♂️
This was first made in China the japs just stole it from Koreans when they learned it from china
They have so many amazing handmade things
'Traditionally sold in the form of *handmade* solid ink sticks' dw guys I think she meant 'footmade'
𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
Feet are just weirdly shaped hands
@@TheNinthGeneration1 its the opposite. Hands are just weirdly shaped feet
@@heavenaimol1988 not when you look at our cousins, all primates have 4 versions of what we call hands, with our bottom two having changed shape
So feet are just weirdly shaped hands@@TheNinthGeneration1
But how could they not show us someone writing with it? 😭 Is love to see a visual difference between the higher quality ink and the cost effective stuff.
Elves out here making ink for 450 years.
Dwarfs*
Elves make no shit beside arrows and pretty clothes
Because the manufacturer Kobaien is 450 old? It wasn't the name of the man.
@@weisilber8957 (That's the joke)
@@anonymous-ix7kr depends on which elves you are talking about. Tolkiens elves made a lot of stuff. Silmarils, Palantírí, swords, clothes etc
It is so satisfying to hear a brittish accent followed with, what I assume is, correctly pronounced Japanese words
I dont think it’s an English accent. Sounds more like a well articulated Japanese accent, hence why the Japanese words are pronounced properly
@@gimpyio Wth is a "Well-articulated Japanese accent?"
@@gimpyio the narrator is Definitely english i have no idea what you’re talking about. a japanese accent simply does not sound like that.
@@gimpyio that's the dumbest thing I have ever heard. It's an English accent.
@@koorby you realize japanese people can speak english with little to no accent... right?
The Japanese discipline level is truly amazing.
Yeah, 450 years!🤯
💯
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Bushido is responsible hence why I(South Asian living in Europe) splicing in the ideology into my list of cultural values.
Such a shame that many absorb fast food style and unhealthy American culture but very few absorb the wise and highly intelligent Japanese humans culture.
@@longdragon3we are being abused and manipulated by our government just like yours. You just got treated better,
A house slave, is still a slave.
It make me happy that people and places like this are still around.
Are you sure it was one man for 450 years
I'm speechless 😶
They said "Japanese ink producer Kobaien has been making calligraphy ink for 450 years" Kobaien is not a person, but a brand. The man's name is Okabe.
@@kehaar3641 trust me they know they just wanna make half assed comments and get their daily likes to feel proud of themselves
@@kehaar3641 just let the joke happen, like god damn bro chill
watch it again and use your brain. It's there for a reason
@@seltzersoda and make "im famous mom/dad" comments when they reach 1k because their actual parents neglected them as a kid.
Something so beautiful about hand made things, especially in Japan. Truly beautiful.
More like foot made.
@Make prey, folks! IWAS ABOUT TO SAY THE SAME THING BEFORE EVEN LOOKIN IN THE REPLIES LMFAAAAAOOOO
Hand made thing:😐
hand made thing in Japan:😱
@@d_houde ik its cringe sometimes
Sucks that they hate literally everybody else in the world other than themselves
When a child I was given a chance to practice Calligraphy on Japanese characters in school and the teacher brought in these special ink kits with dry blocks that you rub into a beautiful black ink. These were given to all the kids in my class, we all lost the kits over the years and only now do I realize how amazing and valuable that kind gift truly was from that amazing teacher. HONOR your teachers by recognizing their sacrifices, and those who make such amazing products as these.
was the kit in a green box by any chance?
Your teacher spent thousands on each student? I doubt that
i dount your teacher had 1000$ ink to be distributed
Put it in one sentence;
"My parents were rich."
You all are dense af. No one said they were 1000 dollar sticks. There are other cheaper kinds that she could have broke down into smaller pieces to put into them kits. Dear God people, not everything is black and white. Use a little bit of critical thinking.
How to make things more expensive than they actually are? Make it “The Japanese Way”.
lol, fr. swords are a perfect example. want to buy a medium-grade, battle ready katana from a smith somewhere in europe? $400-500 is your starting range. try to buy virtually the same product from an “authentic master smith” somewhere in japan, expect to pay well over a thousand
i have homework due tmr and here i am watching a man who makes calligraphy ink.
Partially with his feet.
I hope you did well with your homework
@Lord Baffour Sundiata he failed..
Me who has finals exam (senior year 🙃) on the same day is also watching...so don't feel bad👍🏼😤it's early morning btw
Trade work is satisfying to watch and even more satisfying to partake in. You're watching this because it's hardwired into your brain to create/build something
And its not just regular charchoal. They make candles that burn slowly so they develop charcal marks on the walls and then collect that as the charcoal. Its aparently specufic to those candles.
Thank you very much for sharing this info.
They make the candies, that's part of the process, everything from start to finish including the tools were made the craftsmen of this ink back in the day. Nowadays, some of their tools are made by others, but the ingredients are still made by them.
How does Chinese ink compare? I bought some that was said (by a trusted friend) to be good.
Specific...
Japanese take great pride and instill quality in things such as this because they see it as a great honor to have their products put to work love the integrity they show and have
how can I download this ink to my photoshop??!!
Japanese are the best
@@zeestrees2780they were literally nazis and don’t admit it lmao
@@chewbama6285 Germany were also “Nazis” ~70 years ago but you don’t go to Germany today and start pointing and people calling them Nazis do you?
@@Dr.KarlowTheOctoling Atleast they owned up to it and admitted to their actions, instead of trying to ignore it lol
This video is so underrated
This should be an hour long documentary
It does have a full documentary, check this channel's video.
So should your mom. ZINGER! 🎉😂
Theres a full doc with about 13min, on youtube page insider buiseness, same company as this channel.
Same name , its a cool vid for sure
They forgot to mention one of their key ingredient. Soot, animal glue, perfume and human foot skin.
And you forgot to mention, his life.
Soot can enter the body through inhalation, ingestion or via the skin and eyes. These toxic particles can cause breathing issues, including asthma, bronchitis, coronary heart disease, and even cancer.
Yeah, no thanks. Especially the last one.
@@mikuspalmis "Would you like the can, sir?"
Fungi
Foot sweat 😁
I have a kobayen ink stick, i got it at a garage sale for about 5 quid, they didnt look up the history of anything, they just sold it if they got stuff from anyone that had passed away, i have lots of things from that garage sale which are very high quality
Nice!!!
I LOVE garage sales!
😊👋🇨🇦
Awesome find!
what is a quid...?
@@Frau_Brotchen quid is slang for the British pound, it is like referring to dollars as bucks
@@ARareAndDifferentTune_13 huh. I didnt know either of those. Good to know bahaha
I love how much Japan respects its own culture so much to keep it alive for hundreds of years.
imagine you get a beautiful handwritten letter, then you get a whiff of feet
DEAD!! She had the nerve to say “handmade” girl ain’t nothing but toes and feet EVERYWHERE /j
By now his feet smell more like ink then feet. Do you know red food dye is made from bugs. Enjoy.
@@LANDBACKbyANYmeans and raspberry flavour comes from a beaver butt. So be careful when eating a red thing with raspberry flavour.
@@LANDBACKbyANYmeans Terraria was right
@@sythrus Raspberry? I thought that it was fake vanilla? I only use real vanilla extract for that very reason - price be damned!
Man loves his job so much it made him immortal!
omg you just brought back a memory of my childhood second generation Japanese friend who had one of these in his family house- I remember seeing it on a shelf of some sort, and I just thought it was some kind of book holder (y’know, one of those things that you put at the end of a bookshelf to keep your books upright), but now I know what it is!
A book end.
@@klarag7059 I honestly couldn’t think of the word, is that really what it’s called? ;-;
@@Schellsea yep. Don’t stress. Unless it’s very rare for you to lose words there’s nothing to be concerned with. In fact it’s normal for people to occasionally have difficulties with word recall. If it is common for you to have trouble with words and it gets in the way of life, or it causes you distress, then I would encourage you to seek medical advice and be persistent until you find a doctor who can make a difference. This is even more imperative if this is a new development as something has changed to affect your neurological functions. There may be a very simple reason with an equally simple solution, but not something to allow to continue. All the best, and be kind to yourself.
im sure most of these "ink sticks" end up as 'book fortifiers' on book shelves everywhere
@@raidermaxx2324yes, they make a great book sentry
This is so precious ❤ I have a chance to read about something like this in a comic book, now I got to know the history of this 😮 So blessed ❤ Thank you ☺️
for those not in the know, traditional businesses like this are generally family businesses passed down from father to son, I once saw a documentary about the making of katanas(traditional Japanese sword) and that shop has been around for 700 years, the shop that they buy the polishing stone from has also been around for about 700 years. there are many shops which are even older, also shops like this uses very minimal modern machinery in their processes, instead they rely on techniques created many hundred of years ago. it's really is quite fascinating to see dedication that transcend generations.
I just hope they survive for 700 more. The way the world is going everything has become cheap and fast for the sake of convenience, many stores like this have disappeared because of capitalism. I bet someone will see this video and still think “I can buy that from Amazon” like a total moron. We have to preserve traditional practices like this, we cannot forget them, they are a testament to our history.
@@Sigma_Eight why would anyone assume that is the case if they apply common sense. I'm explaining how small family businesses are passed down the generations through the centuries. I'm no Sherlock but I'm pretty sure you are the village idiot.
@@ballsack1039yeah cheap stores with slave labors like Amazon really destroy quality and brainwashed people to just accepted it
And for 450 years the most common phrase he's heard is
"Wash your feet!!!"
The Japanese are kings of devotion to their craft. Respect for that.
Edit: I'm not saying other cultures don't have devotion to their craft. Chill tf out and stop arguing about everything😂 Can't I just acknowledge their devotion without someone having something to say? Not everything has to be an argument.
All cultures have traditions like this. It's just never brought up because the west has a fetish for japan
@@bobograndman And the comment is saying that Japan in the modern day has a population most dedicated to traditional craft. You don’t have to make it about your own views on how people look at Japan.
What l was going to say.
Gotta love the fetishisation of Japan 😐
@@SurfRock74 Lmao what kind of gymnastics did you have to do to get to that conclusion?
Should see the attention and dedication he puts into getting his bong mix right.
He is the definition of "10 years of experience needed for entry level position"
I'll always respect the amount of work an artisan puts into their craft no matter how eccentric it may seem (as long as the product is good and stands out).
Damn Japanese people really do live forever!
The comment thread on this comment: 💀
Tell that to the people who got swept out to sea after that tsunami. They'll be stoked to know they didn't die.
Or when the USA are dropping the sun on them.
@@barth9580 as a man on Tumblr once said if your bones are wet you are alive if they are dry you are dead... So they party at the bottom of the ocean
@@barth9580 do you KNOW they died? Also; not exactly fair to compare this man’s natural life, to dying by unnatural causes. No one said they are immortal. They can still get hurt.
@@jamesbizs woah no way 🤯
The craftsmanship and skill speaks for itself, sometimes cheaper isn't better
I love that the internet & TH-cam allow us to learn about so many cultures! ❤❤❤
I love stuff like this. People still making stuff the hard and long way.
Chinese would make this easy and short time. However, the trade-off would be the quality itself.
Work smart not harder
@@idhamproaqw98quality thing need precision and passion, however made in china doesn't need that.
@@LycanKai14they didn't have machines 450 years ago
Yeah 450 years
I studied Japanese brush painting once- we used these sticks and a rubbing stone w water to create the ink. I still have some of the rice paper artwork I did with them. Very cool video. I had no idea the cost and process very interesting.
450 years of traditional making. Truly amazing art
Have been using his ink for 400 straight years, this ink never gives up I tell you. There's one I have that's lasted me 50.. Respect to him. Even after so long he hasn't lost his edge.
I like how they went to the trouble of giving the artisan's name, and then specified that the business with a different name has been making ink for 450 years but the top comments missed it.
Edit: I knew it was a joke at the time that I posted this. The joke only works if you didn't catch that the distinction between the man and the business he works at.
I get what you're saying... the jokes don't work because she said two different names and all the comments act like she didn't
R/whoosh
I get that it's a joke. I don't think people actually believe he has 450 years professional experience making ink.
exactly lol now i’m wondering if people do that for all foreign names and brands or if it’s only funny for asian names for them because if so then yikes
They didn't hear it
Dude is old af. 450 years and still working hard. You go dude, another 450 years of happiness to you lmao
They never said he was 450 years old. Did you mishear?
@@johnmartinez7440 they said he had 450 years of experience basically... you go r/wooshed
@@quijybojanklebits8750 the guy wasn't even being rude, calm down
"Step on my overpriced ink Daddy!" Lol
I deeply appreciate seeing things like this - they need to integrate stories like this on philadelphia art museum app - or put monitor in japanese wing - so school trips can be even more dynamic
Bruh. Go back to school
Damn, he's a hard worker, bro need a vacay, dudes been working for 450 years!
It's fine. Like all Japanese people he gets 2 weeks vacation per year.
@@katier9725 Yes. Them poor japs.
“Ink Producer, Kobayen, has been making ink for 450 years.” Kobayen is the name of the company, not the person. The person introduced in the beginning of the video goes by the name of Okabe.
I thought reading comprehension was bad online, turns out listening skills are shite too
Think it was a joke
Don't eat the green jelly bananas
Too late for the headcannon
Thank you for clarifying! I was already selling off all of my stuff, so I could immigrate to Japan and find the secret to an immortal life.
Respect, that man making ink for 450 years
It looks REALLY tasty
A bear would say that
This man has lived 450 years and has only made 12 strawberries off it.
My grand grand grand grandfather once told me that he went vacation to Japan in 1775 and met this man. And yes, he was ink maker.
But my great great great great grandfather said that was a lie.
@@brandienichole7474 i like turtles
This for sure is a man of culture