The Kyoto craftsman keeping his family's 144-year-old legacy alive by hand | Remarkable Living
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- Established in 1875, at a time when Imperial Japan opened its doors to the outside world, Kaikado designed, produced and sold Japan’s first tin chazatsu, or tea caddy.
Back then, tea caddies were typically made of china or earthernware. Double-walled and air-tight, Kaikado’s tin caddies were considered groundbreaking. It kept humidity out and helped preserve the flavour and quality of freshly-picked tea leaves for a year. Remember, refrigerators had not yet been invented.
Takahiro Yagi is the sixth generation owner and artisan craftsman at Kaikado, which remains a family-run business today. He works with his father Seiji, and 13 other craftsmen, in the very same studio as his forefathers did, bringing a 144-year-old tradition to the world. Read the story: cna.asia/2L2cyYi
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Thank you for not abandoning the family business and for expanding it.
It's a good thing that the son managed to diversify their activity. I seen many old businesses who go down because they can't think just a little bit outside of what they were used to doing. Anyway, what an amazing craftmanship.
The son is very intelligent, and has pivoted the business in a way that will be successful.
Seeing him with his grandfather, brings a tear to the eye.
What a remarkable culture. Such refinement and skill to keep existing in the 21st century environment. That is brilliant.
It's not just a tea caddy, it's a work of art 💕
Yeah, that is probably the correct way to view these items. Otherwise you have paid $170 for a container that holds a pound of tea instead of $8 for a latch lid jar. I am sure these tea caddies will have the right aesthetics to attract buyers at an income level suitable to their price point. They are very attractive.
Traditionally, it is sound applied, technologically, it is excellently recognized, as the details are incorporated. Skills and craftmanship does not deteriorate..Kunnichiwa Japan Crafts. bansai japon!
"Comments are recognition of excellence, originality, and authentic standards that are exceptional, it is both an epitome of beauty, as well as as recognition of strength, personality and character incomparable statement of grandeur" *****
Dedication, devotion, something that I'm lack of. Really appreciate when I can see people like him who so devout to his work.
From an armour-making English tea-addict in a French forest, I say BRAVO! 🏆⚒️🙏🇬🇧
i stood in the rain and watched this man make these caddy's in gastown british columbia in 2017. it was worth the 15 minutes and the soaking i endured.
magic.
Gorgeous minidoc. This man is a smart businessman that luckily manages to go with the time in order to keep this beautiful craft/art alive :)
Oh wow, I bookmarked this and am determined to get one of these tea caddy.
Don't be a fool.
@@konstantinivanov1986 why would he be a fool? Im an craftsman myself manufacturing jewelry to the layman it looks that you are just hammering away. But that could not be further from the truth everyblow of that hammer is calculated with the right force and angle to form or stretch the metal it takes experience to be able to do that. So if strawberryshortcake wants some real item made with care let him be. You obviously are better at home witch some crappy chineese massproduction made container and that is your decision.
@@konstantinivanov1986 who is the fool? That's a rhetoric question.
@@stadtjer689 what's a rhetoric question, rethoric question.
This is amazing. Well done on the video - you all are great storytellers.
This is a wonderful story. There is so much waste in our lives nowadays and that includes culture. It’s so satisfying seeing culture survive and adapt but still hold its wonder. Very precious.
Love seeing stories like this.
Perfection & discipline at work and in the making. Bravo!
Beautiful story
Amazing craftsmanship, I wish I would know about it when I visited Kyoto three months ago
Priceless ❤
Work of Art indeed , Salute 👍🏻
Honoured to hear the voice of a great master
a work of art
Imagine all that time and concentration needed from the craftsmen to perfect the curves of the airtight caddy, to get the parts to fit *just right*
Then imagine your kid/cat/somebody/anybody *dropping* that container accidentally. *faints*
Perfect for ashes.
This is a wonderfully inspiring story BUT I am childish so...
@2:41 : I can feel him in my behind
I spat at my monitor
Same. But seriously I want to buy one of these.
Can so relate
WoW!!! The crafmanship, it's worth every penny! Gambatte!
From Down Under- Sydney
So brilliant.
2:41 I can feel him in my behind.🤣🤣🤣
hahaha yeah this stuck out to me too, i immediately went to the comments section to look for a mention.
@@AccountingRaiding me too
Same
Wow ! that is amazing !!!! Love this ~
I love mine. Such quality. Worth the trip.
Glass doors they saw you coming
He's a true artist 👍
I love this stuff.
Way KOOL! I remember fondly our three years inJapan.
I appreciate Master Craftsmanship and Top Quality materials in all my possessions, this is worthy to own and enjoy. More power to your endeavors, Cheers.
Yourvideo inspired me, thank You
It sucks that TH-cam only allows you to give one like per video. This one deserves many!
You unintentionally reminded me that I should give it a ‘’like’’. Thanks!
I've given one
Very interesting, great video.
Brilliant greetings from australia
Love great art.
Now I want one. Tea is becoming more popular in America I see it in most stores with wide selection different teas. I also like drinking loose leaf tea. I suppose you can also store the tea bags along with coffee beans.
Cool dude and even cooler caddies.
Good work, sure the coffee is awesome with traditional value. May god bless him with good health and good pay.
The son should not have been surprised that the English woman wanted to use the caddy to store something other than tea leaves. Because these beautiful pieces of art can be valued, admired, & appreciated by anyone, regardless of their country of origin, if they value the skills & craftsmanship of anything that is handmade!!
Very smart man !
Very nice.
Simple elegance, master artisan skill...... they are amazing. International orders?
I would love to have the teapot, as well as the tea caddy
First thought was ,were are the machines for such perfect work?..- it's actually done by hand 🤔.. Exceptional craftsmanship 🙂
Neat!
Wow how interesting! Where is the coffee shop located? Would love to go there while I'm in Japan!
Both are located in Kyoto. The main showroom where they sell them is just off a Main Street and has a minimal look, the cafe is about a 8min walk down from the shop. Search google maps for Kaikado while in Kyoto they both come up.
Very few Japanese people speaks English but the exception of the super academics and elite who worked and/or have been educated in international environment . He must be one of those guys who feel challenged by getting outside of his comfort zone.
¿y por que los japoneses debieran saber ingles? mejor aprende japones tu, y asi sales de tu zona de confort, tonto
@@carloko08 Je parle aussi Français et si un Japonais viens en France je lui parlerai en Anglais pas en Français .
@@kingk2405 - ‘’...vient en France’’ avec un ‘’t’’. Ceci dit, lorsque je suis allé au Japon en 2005, il m’a semblé que sans être répandu, l’usage de l’anglais n’était pas rarissime - du moins chez ceux appelés à interagir avec des touristes.
Very few American or British people speak Japanese. I bet that more Japanese people speak English compared with how many English speakers speak Japanese. Shall we have a bet on it?
@@majordendrocopos No it is obvious as English is the most widely spoken language (Chinese is I think number one in number of people speaking it ) . I am French and I do not expect foreigners in France to speakFrench , I use English with them . I lived few years in Holland and the Dutch have the same attitude what they do not like are native English speakers not making any effort in learning Dutch but with non English speakers foreigners they consider that they have already made the effort to speak English so basically found a way to communicate in a language people have in common.
Great for "herbs" too!!
I can't discuss what a beautiful craft is this, however it's not for everyone, a lovely tea pot for $500 usd that means whole month salary in México for a car mechanic, just for mention
I want one ' at least one
Hmm I want one.
Why not provide a link to their website?
Fantastic Japanese
What's the music called ear the end... Its catchy??
Yeah uh, sorry to burst your bubble, but if the lid goes down on its own, it's not an airtight seal. The lid going down on its own means the pressure from inside can somehow easily get to the outside.
Also, it's a box to keep your tea in. They look nice, but you can make way more of them with the same quality way more quickly with a machine. This is a "oh look those old people are hammering them!" tourism thing, not an actual product that you can't get anywhere else.
Thank you for saying what needed to be said. People just get too precious over stuff like this.
Wish they showed the steps in making them instead of what goes inside them
Reminds me o apple investing tons of money for their boxes to do the same
Ok.....how do I buy one ?
I really like the way the Japanese attribute art dimension to daily items and work. You do not see that much in the Western world. We have key performance indicators and metrics...
We have more to do with our time than wasting it making ridiculous overpriced tin cans
@@boomerhgt As opposed to the Japanese, who are world-renowned for their engineering and production of reliable cars (Honda, Toyota, Nissan, etc. etc.) and electronics (Canon, Nikon, Sony, etc. etc.) and many other things?
I wrote a blog post about the Kyoto Artisan workshop, where I got to experience some yuzen and meet a real artisan! I'm so glad that yuzen is being preserved in so many ways! www.wanderingwindblog.com/post/2019/11/25/a-dream-come-true-at-the-kyoto-artisan-workshop
Just making things the hard way doesn’t make it the right way !
It is remarkable that they could craft something with that precision by hand, but we have to admit it that a factory machine can produce 10k piece a day with the same precision. It is an interesting craft skill tho.
Ten years to learn to make a tea caddy the Japanese make a huge deal out of everything.
If only Americans we're humble enough being satisfied just to drink a cup of tea and live a modest life. Theyre always wanting more more more. All of the advertisements on tv, radio, magazines, internet, movies, signs, billboards, etc etc are always trying to get people to buy more more more for so much crap that we don;t even need... so much crap that in reality so many of those things never actually do what they show them to do, never makes our life more easy, and never saves us the tons of time they hype up those things into to doing.
The quality of a tea caddy resides in its precision, and handcraft will never be able to compete in precision with a CNC. So, unfortunately, this legacy is obsolete today.
Uhm, if the lid slides down on it's own it's not airtight because the air is bleeding out as it falls.
Can't machines replicate this? I find the prices ridiculous but if they have a market for it why not.
g'luck with that tea caddy, there's about 1 million lathes that can reproduce the same for pennies
Listening to spoken Japanese, I hear how similar it is to spoken English; not the words but the intonation and rhythms, whereas Chinese is completely different.
Tonal language
90% or more of products made in Japan, are not uniquely made only in Japan as most of the designs come from Europe, especially Scandinavian countries. In fact Japan is more like a platform.
I think you confuse China with Japan.
China 100%, Japan maybe less.
The first thing I thought of was: metal spinning on a lathe: th-cam.com/video/FHvtieU4-7Y/w-d-xo.html
If you wanted containers for more bulk items (rice, flour etc) then a lathe might be a good idea.
But the tolerances needed for such a close fit are significant. Hand made may actually give more control, with cheaper tools.
So to be a "craftsman" making a tea caddy takes 10 years. You go to med school for 4 years and you are an MD???
@@secretyawn491 I do realize that just getting a degree in medical school is only the first step and you can't practice until you have finished your residency and get board certified. I was just making a point.
I appreciate the dedication, but at the end of the day its just a metal container and can be made more easily and more precise with a machine. But then you can't charge $150 for it, can you? There are things where I really appreciate the craftmanship like hand forged knives, this is not one of those things.
Verry good kwarity 🤗
What the hell are the subtitles, nevermind
I thought the emphasis in the corrections using parentheses were a bit obnoxious.
But that correction in 2:40 wasn't such bad idea...
@@henrique5231 Yeah, I nearly spewed Mt. Dew on my screen.
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Seems a lathe work ...
It's $150....
Whaouh ! I could have bet it would have been in a much higher price range especially in Japan.
@@kingk2405 consider he alone can make 10 a day, they must not too hard and time consuming to make. Dude's shop earns more than a million a year @ 40 a day.
Its a nice product but also imparts a metallic taste onto the tea its holding. Which ruins the tea. I keep all my tea in wood. It breaths and the tea never absorbs stray flavors and scents..
They look great but they are probably like $200 a piece, right?
I was right, even the 100g brass cannister is $140, and the 200g copper canister is $300. ffs... its a metal tube.
I use Tupperware.
The problem would be that there will never be repurchases. Zero.. nil..nein....kaput
I feel offended that CNA corrected his grammar. So rude
I can imagine hipsters all going crazy to buy them .
Made in Japan
Y cant machines b used ?
They could be. It would be faster and more accurate too. But then people wouldn't get the "satisfaction" of paying $150 for something that should cost $20.
FFS shut down that repetitive noise.
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I hope his grandfather stops playing with his behind cuz here in America you go to jail for that lol
10 years hahah are you hiring people fresh out of the special Olympics? No way it takes even 10% of that time.
Exactly
I wonder if they descended from Koreans... like the pottery artisan
MADE IN JAPAN .
Why would you even try to speak with such a level of English (and I mean the pronunciation) when inevitably you will end up being subtitled. They should've told him but I guess over politeness is a Japanese byproduct.
Stop putting unnecessary music in the videos.
he has a good pronounciation, why do you have to add a subtitle ? thats an insult
Sell those airtight containers to the states with legalized marijuana. Gold mine.