What is a Japanese Living National Treasure?
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- The British Museum has been collecting artworks made by Japanese Living National Treasures since 2007, but what is a Living National treasure and why are they so important to Japanese Cultural Heritage? In this film Nicole Rousmaniere, research director of SISJAC and Hayashida Hiyaki of the Japan Kōgei Association talk all about the Living National treasures programme and highlight some of the most beautiful pieces of Japanese craftsmanship collected by the Museum.
This film series has been produced with the support of JTI.
The incredible thing is you can have pieces from artists designated this way for a pittance. I collect yakimono (unglazed pottery) and own several pieces by Rakusai who was designated an intangible cultural property. They are as beautiful as you can imagine and i didn't pay more than 20 bucks for any of them. Incredible that Japan is letting their physical history be sold off to some degree. The amount of antique silk you can turn up on eBay for next to nothing is incredible. I'd really just like to move to Japan and help collect and administer some of this stuff.
You should find an opportunity to do this, seems like you're the only one/one of the few who knows this, you could be of great help, perhaps create a gallery/museum out of them, would be a shame if people just started hoarding these due to their price
The thing is that a lot of the items and works of art created by artisans designated as living national treasures are in fact utilitarian in nature. They want the objects they made to be put to use, the way the work of the masters they trained under were put to use. The program is to encourage young people to become apprentices to continue the art form, not to make precious objets d’art for museums that are totally divorced from their intended purpose. A porcelain bowl, a carved wooden box, a silk kimono - these are all things meant to be used, in fact, the fact that a masterpiece was created to be an everyday item adds to its beauty, the mundanity makes it all the more interesting.
We should have this everywhere, wonderful!💞🙏
I had the honor.to meet with a Japanese living treasure ... 1972 I was headed home from Vietnam .. we made a port of call in Japan. I and two other guys were told of an elderly gentleman who was a Tattoo artist .. we went to visit him. We ask for permission to enter his home but was told he was in a very frail condition and please don't stay to long ... WOW .. the pictures we saw were beautiful. .. full body .. the drawings on the walls were breath taking ..
Riveting video. Ms. Rousmaniere is very eloquent and an excellent presenter. I went in search of more documentaries of Living National Treasures, and was enchanted for a period of time. learning new things.
Teach this to the world...
Most of these high level artisan trades are handed down father to son. I saw a VICE piece recently on this old man (mid 70’s) working out of the back of his son’s Mexican restaurant in Texas doing custom hand engravings on guns, the way he was taught back in Mexico from another by-hand artist. People come from around the word and pay tens of thousands of dollars for him to turn their weapons into hand etched art. It’s fantastic, but his son doesn’t seem interested in carrying it forward and in fifty years you won’t be able to find someone else who does it without a laser system. You’ll find a similar situation with everything from pottery to traditional carpentry 😕
@@thefloridamanofytcomments5264 In Germany there are many gunsmiths who still do traditional and modern custom hand engravings. I bet that there are tons more worldwide.
LVCIVS that’s what I mean these people are few and far between. You have to travel to someone for that level of traditional work by hand, and if they even have time to take you as a client it isn’t going to be cheap. These things will become hyper-specializations before being lost to time entirely because there isn’t a mechanism for young people to find themselves apprenticeships with the masters. Here’s the link BTW the guy is a true artist.
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I wish the US had something like this for colonial crafts such as weaving, hand sewing, leatherwork, beading and things related to homesteading.
Why the repost?
Here's a story for ya! In 2018, I began a deep journey into claiming my Okinawan heritage, by way of Okinawan classical and folk music and Sanshin, the 3 string snake skin 'banjo' (and predecessor of the Japanese Shamisen). Two weeks after beginning my studies and practice of Sanshin, I was online looking for CDs of traditional Okinawan music, and, long story short- I randomly discovered that I am related to Nishie-sensei... A holder of several designated culturally important intangible properties related to Okinawan classical music...and a designated Living National Treasure for Ryukyu Koten Ongaku Uta-sanshin (Ryukyu Classical music Song and Sanshin). I wrote to him, explaining my story until that moment. His response, 6 weeks later, was to send me one of his personal Sanshin instruments, one of high quality, made by a craftsman who may someday soon become a national treasure himself. Needless to say- my path burst open before me...and my need, desire, focus, and determination to learn, practice, preserve, and promote this ancient craft has since dominated my life.
Love that gallery.
This should be compulsory viewing in every art school, craft centre, engineering school etc! It is *SO* impressive what they achieve, and their ethos
Is this a re-upload? I've seen it before...
Quick-Draw iPhone Guy is The Japanese Living National Treasure
100% hands on.Japan is 100%
There is a whole industry in Britain making English-style armor of the Hundred Years War period, long swords, back swords, Scottish broadswords, rapiers, all based on actual museum pieces. Do THEY get Living Treasures designation? What about Pennsylvania rye whiskey distillers, or those making replica Pennsylvania long rifles?
They should! We should all treasure our tradition.
I guess each country would have to create their own system to designate their own craftspeople as living treasures.
this isn't about Kana Hanazawa at all...