Tsutsumu - The Art of Japanese Packaging
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Documentary on traditional Japanese forms of packaging for foods, confections and drinks which use natural materials-paper, straw, bamboo, rope, and wood. The original "eco-friendly" way things were done before modernization-nowadays everything is cloaked in 2-3 layers of cellophane and plastic.
In Japanese with some English subtitles, but worth watching even if you can't understand the words. "Shizen" means Nature, you'll hear that one a lot. This was made from a VHS tape which was given to me by my packaging design instructor at the Sozosha College of Design in Osaka in the late 1990s.
A beautiful people who have a beautiful long standing tradition for being in harmony with nature and other outside influences, wonderful people who are genuine people who try to be the best that can be.
This is what's so unique to this culture. Using plants and natural packaging and it looks and performs so beautifully. Absolute creative genius. Is it any wonder that their cars have the most robust electrical systems.
This is the pure flow of human potential ... The extreme genius that awakens in those who refuse to give up. Japan has demonstrated this throughout history.
It is so beautiful to see how the work, and nature, are so deeply honoured, not just things, goods. This is very beautiful and inspiring to see. Thankyou.
OMG, I swear I can just watch that box wrapping lady non stop for a whole month!!!! Truly mesmerizing AMSR OVERLOAD!!!!
Japan has a very fascinating culture. I don't understand a word of Japanese but i watched the entire video.
Thanx for posting this. happy to see, in a land of consumerism, some ppl still respect a strong conviction in how to live and partake of what our planet offers. Not everyone can appreciate the beauty and gravity over this concept
The narration is so poetic. I love 日本.
Whoever translated this, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
These ancient arts will sadly be soon forgotten. They are truly beautiful asher I hope I'm wrong!
The way that nature is adapted into the packaging of Japanese products is so beautiful its like the breath of life is fresh and beautiful and growing.Thank you for sharing your culture.Charles E.Huggins Jr.
Although there are no English subtitles after about halfway through, I can tell that these methods of packaging are as practical as they are pretty, and all done with natural and biodegradable materials!
Sarah Gray-----------Yeah, a little bit different than walmart.....lol
Click Settings -> Subtitles -> English
This doesn't make a difference. The first 3/5 of the video DO have English subtitles, but they're absent from the last 2/5. Wonder why.
Some of these made me mad when I realized how many times I could've used these
Very good video. Thanks for uploading.
This is the best I've seen in a long while! Such beauty!
Phenomenal film! I knew about "tsutsumu" and really enjoyed watching this doc. THANKS for uploading!
i want to live in japan where everything is a art..the art of packing, the art of waking up, the art of going to work, the art of sitting, the art of sleeping, the art of showering at some point, the art of napping, the art of living, the art of having a hobby thats not work....
Mythical Morzan thow art correct 😜
The level of care that is hard to find where I grew up and live currently. The thought about others, and just the for others, sometimes to a fault, like in office settings but I digress.
The more details I learn about everything, from the tatami, to the kami, i guess you could say I mildly envy in a good way, a place based of caring about those around you the same if not more, than oneself.
As of late, I am finding it hard to be around what is considered rude in Japan.
To sum it up, it is hard to actually put into words, the beneficial nature Japan has had on me, and I how not visited or talked to almost any Japanese people in person.
Ah here we go, it feels like everything I learn about Japan, makes me feel like I am learning a part of my past life and I am noticing things I have done almost all my life, and why I am so good with my hands.
I just wish my hands would not hurt after 300 cranes, 1000 will happen one year 😂
I know you're being facetious, but the Japanese are a very deliberate people.
I agree, this clip, even without language is hypnotically beatiful
Just like others have mentioned, the video itself is a work of art and sublimely 'packaged' even without full grasp of nihongo. Thank you very much for sharing this!
Even without Subtitles (which you can turn on!), the majority of the content still comes across clearly through the demonstrations and visuals. However, to me the beauty of this is in the presentation, and beautiful use of combined natural materials. Love seeing the eggs being cradled in a straw type cage, precise knots closing a basket, and beautifully printed paper being folded and wrapped around treats of some sort! The printed straw mats that were sewn around the wooden buckets near the end of video were the icing on the cake. It is the extra step, and extra effort- even when not required- that helps us all recall that there can be Art and Beauty even in a package of eggs, when at the hands of a utilitarian artist. Too many lovely ways, traditions and skill sets are being lost and forgotten, which is a Multi-Cultural disgrace, great loss for future generations, and I think diminishes the quality of life for those that value the more handmade, thoughtful, products in the Marketplace. Thank you for this Video! NOTE: I watched without subtitles ON the first time- then realized I could turn ON- sorry! EDITED!
thank you!
MsThylacine how did you turn on subtitles please?
Hit the CC button in the Video-bottom right area. The Gear-like icon controls "English",
Great reflection!
My God! This literally ties the Japanese aesthetic together for me! Thanks for sharing.
This is a gem! Thank you for sharing!
what an awesome video, some great editing!
Thanks for sharing. A gem.
The artful use of the only materials you have to work with, beautiful. This is a choice in everything in life, do I give up because I am poor, or do not have what I want, or do I create beauty with what I have? To create beauty, harmony, respect, dignity, compassion, or to distroy with apathy, hate, small mindedness? Seems unconnected to some, but all is connected. Thanks for this.
There's something so satisfying about how deftly they fold the paper when packaging.
This what I love about Japan; not the international tourism version, but the real Japan. My best memories of Japan are those times when I am far from the tourism centres, out in the countryside, learning and understanding Japanese people and their culture. I believe Japanese mono-culture is important to maintain for our human history; past present and future. Maybe I've enjoyed too much fine Japanese sake, but I would be happy to defend Japan if it ever felt threatened, probably more so then my own country.
Same here.
Agree. I chose my homestay in rural Japan while rest chose city folks. Loved being on a farm picking fresh persimmon fruits etc and meeting their down-to-earth mayor et al, learning how to prepare fresh homemade eats and especially their beautiful traditional home.
i think this is a great sustainable model for modern society.
This video was recommended to me. So happy I clicked. I saw the images and stayed because of how peaceful and beautifully narrated it felt. As for the sustainable way of packaging, Oh! I wish most of the world would follow in these steps of using biodegradable, natural packaging, and hopefully someday we can also use leftover wheat oil to power up a village or a city. Solar panels are a good idea but it only works in sunny places all year round or half a year, when it is sunny. ✌
@@hameley12 i need a community like this
the western world seems to reject this and i mostly hate it.
@velvetvideo I could be wrong, but I think it's an ego and greed problem. I've noticed from my nine years of living in the States, some Americans feel like they are better than the rest of the world and are set on delivering fast-paced lifestyle, products and education and other things. They also preach freedom for all and even fair trial, but even the U.S. Judiciary House belly is filled with corruption. My dear country, Portugal, is pulling the strings both ways fast-paced and slow-paced, frugal type of lifestyle, productivity and education.
Other countries I can't speak for them. But until they let go of their ego and greed, and see the world for what it is: people struggling to meet up societal expectations and the middle class struggling to pay off debts. They will not change their ways.
We don't need to worry about the 1% or 4% they are well set above everyone else. We can still hope that a smart new company player will bring along some independent packaging products and slow-paced productivity for anyone wanting to go all in.
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I've never thought of these! Beautiful.
Great reverence for nature
I'd like to give a shout out to whoever did the translation. The quality of translation is very high and clearly took a lot of work. You can't translate Japanese to English just like that on the fly.
i found a book about this, didn't see how it was done.????it was titled - How to wrap 5 eggs.. i'm so glad to see this tutorial, now I can carry a buncha' eggs to - whereever I want
I think I know which book you are talking about. I was at the bookstore a year ago and came across 'Everything International Niche Books' there was a book titled Japanese & Chinese Lays of Wrapping and Everything Boxes. I think it may have been 'Ways' the cover was faded. Flipped through it and one of the chapters showed how to wrap delicate items, jewellery, eggs, and porcelains. Absolutely fascinating! Unfortunately, I could not find much info about it online so I decided to buy it. ☺
Edit: I'll look up the cover you listed. Thanks!
The Japanese take so much pride in even the smallest of tasks. Would that the rest of us would follow suit. It is very admirable.
This was so wholesome and satisfying :)
The Beautiful Japanese are so advanced in incredible ways x I feel such humility when I see how they are, I feel such love they are the very best of us x brings such powerful emotion and wonder, tears come and pain at seeing such x
Jesus Christ it's just some fancy boxes
im actually amazed by all kinds of packaging..
old japan really is amazing. can we start a new society based on old japan?
So much of this is an artists/animators wet dream for reference.
Very interesting, thank you for sharing 😊😘
beautiful to watch these masters of their craft - and yet so sad, how commercialism has brought humanity to a point where we don't want to learn these wonderful skills anymore, which were acquired over generations in hundreds if not thousands of years. which were so beautiful, ecological and satisfying - and took so much time to learn and to execute for seemingly so little "reward".
Today, we don't have time for anything, can"t concentrate on one task alone for more than 10 min (i bet half the people watching this video even fast forwarded half of it) and consume senseless amounts of ugly packaging which we use only for a few seconds and then discard it. ironically, our modern packaging WILL last for hundreds of years, just AFTER it was used. what crazy world.
..yes..a lot of the comments are negatively critical and snidely judgemental..now that's sad..eyes to see but blinded to what they see
Thank you for share! 🙏🏽
So beautiful and artistic
Thank you for posting this. This video represents Alan Lomax level cultural preservation.
This is fantastic making
So sublimely beautiful, a art worth learning, the sound the wrapping paper made was soothing..and the suttle music, what string instruments were used? watching this was an educational joy to watch!! Peace
Wish there were subtitles but stunningly beautiful nonetheless. Thank you! What a find.
A generous viewer has taken the time to transcribe the spoken words into English subtitles, so please give another look! :)
Unfortunately, even with the 'Settings->Subtitles->English' turned on, they are absent from the last 2/5 of the video. Still worth watching, but I would have appreciated the extra context. Thanks for the video.
You could really lay somebody out with that lunchbox, wish I had one as a kid.
Everything in Japan is an art...
This is more satisfying to watch than those videos of people cutting soaps and dudes playing with kinetic sands.
Thanks for sharing
Wow!!!! Super epic sumo-ing!!!!
Great movie. If you allow viewers to create subtitles, I would like to translate ...
ありがとうございます。私の日本語は足りませんですから、もしあなたは訳せらればとても嬉しいです。そして、訳すの設定を変わりました。どうもありがとう！
I am not an English native speaker, but I will do my best while borrowing the hand of Google translation :)
Some English. Would be so nice.
Agreed very much, subtitles would be wonderful - even if the video in itself is a true pleasure to behold.
I translated about 70%, so I posted it here. I will also translate little by little. Since it seems that reviewing will take about one week before being posted, please wait.
Beautiful.
Very interesting and clever...
Interesting and enjoyable but the english sub titles ran out. Love the art of the wrapping weather very small or bigger awesome
Japanese take all aspect of life seriously. Their art and culture is revered all around the world.
in 50 year there will be less japanese ppl than native americans if they dont get back to the art form of fuckin
true. sadly
all they need to do is take women's rights away and they're saved
You mean people revere things like attacking pearl harbor? Colonizing neighboring countries? Human experiment by unit 731?
What's with that grudge.
Except for Colonizing neighboring countries they didn't really do anything all other factions in war didn't.
And why now is pearl harbor always mention like it was the biggest battle in history, lol.
At 22:24 the images become sublime as she wraps the items.
the music in this SLAPS
That's just amazing.
BEAUTIFUL.
amazing... thanks
thanks for sharing!!!!
Such an honour to be able to watch this documentation, and learn a thing or two from this film. But it will be much better if we can read the subtitle from min.22 till the end, don't you think so? 🙏👍🤓
Thank you!
Beautiful. Please transcribe the rest?
Idk why this made me feel more comfortable
i like these packing technology of japan.
though not fully subtitled i love the artistry that goes into the packaging. i just wish i knew what the foods they were preparing after the subtitles ended were they look intresting
They appear to be sweets made from rice paste.
Wrapped so beautifully, I'd hate to cut them open...
Beautiful!
What an art form packaging is in old Japan...
Haaaah! I am convinced I was Japanese in a past life... besides being a lover and a collector of Japanese art and antiques, it is once more confirmed after seeing them double wrap a gift box at 23:18 (as I have been guilty of wrapping all my gifts in sheets of colored tissue first, before wrapping them again in matching colored fancy printed paper. As a French/Irish, male fashion designer living in Canada, I am the only person I know that does that and my friends and family have often teased me for going overboard with the over the top, double wrapped, glamorous looking gifts I have given them.)
Superb
old but gold
packaging is an ART !!!
よく見つけたね こんなに良い記録フィルム
Two Fish and rice: $4
Shipping and Packaging. $650
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@@truthiseverything9511 can one find information on how to do this correctly to try?
awesome!!!
Thank so much, too bad the captions ended when I was getting more exiting to know about this
Love the translation
still a beautiful art..
Where can i find the music they play at 10:36???
Please translate the rest of the video!
Beautiful
will be talking live in the #seekingsustainabilitylive series with the founder of #KayuPackage in Japan who is making wooden disposable bento containers - better than the plastic version, but I wish we could get back to reusable versions like this in your film. Thanks for sharing!
I wonder how many people didn't figure out that there are english captions?
Why do the Subtitel stop halfway through the Video? :(
Any contacts or names of crafters that may do this as a supply company for exports?
shame the subtitles cut off
Does anyone have any tips on where things like these might still exist in shops in Japan, especially in Tokyo?
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🙏 Please don't change, don't let the new generation or other cultures ruin your beautiful culture, your good values, good principle and your essence of purity. 🙏
Por favor no cambies, no permitas que la nueva generación o otras culturas arruinen tu hermosa cultura, tus buenos valores, buenos principio y tú esencia de pureza. 🙏
Tsutsumu - literally the word for "wrap" or "package"
Enjoyed this thankyou. 2/13/2018
cheese,sugar,salt, Pepper's an liquor is stored in this style?
what is in those barrels they are packaging at 29:50
Sake. Those are "saka daru" (sake barrels).
@@ymhr312 thank you for your reply, was really curious about it. I waited two years for that answer, Thank you...Have a magnificent day...
@@Lalaland.001 At 28:47, The narrator says, "Komo kaburi starts with hand-writing." Komo = Straw mat, kaburi = covering
It would be useful to have subtitles in English.
It would be, but I don't speak Japanese well enough to translate, I mostly just get the gist from the visuals.
Thanks :)
JOS gandos kotos kotos nganti mbledhos pokoknya 😁
We still use those techniques in USA for wrapping tamales :)
Peacefully art...
@24~ the girl wraps a box in paper, and then.... wraps the paper- wrapped box... in more paper. It's crazy to me that ancient japan was so infrugal with resource management.
Modern Japan does the same, but with 3-4 layers of plastic, instead. The example you're mentioning was for relatively "luxury" goods, not everyday food, so maybe the extra layer added a perception of value. It's also part of "branding" for a famous shop, in that case.
At least she's using paper, which is a renewable resource!
Just like kimono which consist of layers of beautiful silk fabric.
Infrugal huh? Lolololol
Maxdecphoenix The last wrapping is like a plastic bag used in America. I'm old enough to remember when items were wrapped then wrapped again to be carried around in, later they placed items in a simple brown shopping bag..then the wrapping was stopped and the bags got fancy..it was a treat to go shopping then..like dessert was only in Sundays
Please fix the subtitles!