As a Japanese who has been in North America for 20 yrs, and I haven't been back to Japan almost 6yrs, by watching your video brought me back to home country. Although I've never been to Imari, such a beautiful place. Thanks a lot!
I live in the Italian Dolomite mountains and the similarities of old building construction and small village roads, bridges and everything is astonishing! ...beautiful!!!
Yeah everyone takes a lot of pride in keeping everything clean, they even have neighborhood committees dedicated to monthly clean ups. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the beginning of Japanese potter history. Back in 1592 a shogun "Toyotomi Hideyoshi" invaded Korea one of his order to his general was to kidnap and bring Korean pottery people back to Japan because Korean potter technique was far superior so he needed this new potter technique. That is how modern Japanese potter was started. Currently there aer at least 3 family famous for potter and their orgin were from Korea.
@@FlipsideJapan Thanks for the great visuals of this video. Hideyoshi did liked his tea pottery because he also used it to leverage and negotiate with various clans those days due to it being a highly valued commodity (Which is why most accomplished Lords had a team of tea masters on stand by, as it was important to identify whether certain pottery were as important as it claimed). Korean pottery was one particular type certain samurais liked. Hideyoshi himself liked various Korean products. During the later years of his life he had a crazy obsession with invading Korea. One of his favorite retainer which he raised personally, Kato Kiyomasa, had a story of being in Korea and killing a Tiger and bringing back the skin/meat..general remains for Hideyoshi. He probably brought a lot of stuff back to Japan as well since he was one of the front line guys. To this date Kiyomasa is still very respected in the Kumamoto region as he was the daimyo of it. That being said, Hideyoshi was not "Shogun", the term Shogun did not simply meant "general" unlike the modern use of the word (Especially the chinese langauge) it was a very particular rank. He was the ultimate ruler of his time but due to various reasons such as his peasantry bloodline he was not able to use that particular name as they had all types of traditional customs to come with rankings. He was referred to as "Taikō", which is sort of like the "chief advisor for the emperor" it didn't matter any way as he ruled with absolute martial power, just like Oda Nobunaga never had the Shogun name ranking as well. Tokugawa Ieyasu, however, has the title of Shogun, due to starting a formal Shogunate, hence the rank "Shogun". Sorry for the long rambling haha! Really liked this video.
Great presentation of a beautiful village. Thanks for the interesting history also. I always marvel at how clean and neat these villages are. No garbage or weeds to be seen.
Yeah, I saw a few old men really taking care of their gardens when I was walking around, Japan has a lot of pride in it's appearance. Thanks for watching!:)
This is very interesting history of making porcelain in japan history by Korean slave . Thanks for sharing with us , I live in Melbourne but spent many times to visit Japan and never though that an Australian has made video about Japan , well done .
It's peaceful! I always dream of spending some time in one of those old and tranquil villages. At the same time, as a Korean, I feel so sad, imagining that many Koreans were kidnapped and forced to spend their whole life, missing their home.
I loved your commentary, followed along by your footage of the town. It was fun to see the scenery as I followed the story of the Korean potter who ran away to Kyoto. Great song as the end also~! 🤓
Thank you fror sharing of the interesting video :-) When I was a child, always watvch Japanese films on TV in Bangkok - Thailand. Lots of SAMURAI series - I really liked to see and always faninated of Japan ... Even never visit Japan before - I will surely visit Japan in near future, after COVID time :-) Best wishes from Stockholm - Sweden
Okawachiyama is a secluded pottery village just outside Imari . Often referred to as the Village of Secret Kilns, it was once an exclusive pottery hub producing porcelain ware for Japan's elite and for export.
Nothing wrong with a bit of fishing after being up all night on the crack pipe eh? I'm sure they'll be amazed how you can power a vehicle with a boat anchor.
It's possible but probably quite difficult, there is a guest house there you can stay in next time you go for a holiday though if you want to experience it the town.
Hidden gems off the usual track. Great history, bet it gets a few day tourists for pottery when tourism is allowed too. Aussie would appreciate that there's not much in that forest that would kill you unlike Australia
That's also true, the only thing you really have to be some what careful about here are wolves, wild boar and bears haha. Attacks are exceedingly rare though! Can't say I'm much of a pottery fan but I did enjoy the ambience of the village:)
Well, in these Asian countries most peopel lived in a way as slaves. The life of the people was like that. Total obedience and very hard work. The natives were not better treated neither in Japan nor in China. I am not familiar enough with Korean history to know whether it was the same or not, there.
You need to travel more within Australia if you think it is "arid and scrubbie". Visit the rainforests in Victoria, the Blue Mountains in New South Wales and the lush tropical forests of Northern Queensland. All around Australia you can find beautiful green environments. Explore your own country and appreciate it's beauty.
I've literally been to every single place you mentioned. But I'm not going off on a tangent about every single geographic location and environment in Australia on a video that has nothing to do with Australia, it was just a quick observation based on the fact that Australia has nothing that remotely compares to the forests of Japan.
Australia is not all arid and shrubby, only some of it is. Aussie has beautiful mountain regions, just as pretty as what you are walking through. Australia also have beautiful coastal regions.
@@FlipsideJapan You're the one who said Australia is Arid and scrubby. So don't get crusty with me cause it doesn't sound like you know Australia very well for someone who is supposed to be an Aussie.
@@margyb7469 I've traveled all over Aus, our overall terrain is described as arid. The ADF's DPCU camouflage had it's colour scheme selected because of "Australia's arid bushland". Not sure why I'd go into detail about coastal regions etc in Australia when I'm clearly making a very quick comparison between common Australian bushland and common Japanese forests.
@@FlipsideJapan Oh good for you, you big traveller does that make you special. I'm an Australia of 63 years who also has travelled Australia and NO it is not mostly arid and shrubby, What is wrong with you?
@@margyb7469 do you understand the comparison I was making to tree's in the video. I'm not comparing the entire country of Japan and Australia's geographic features and terrain to each other. Relax.
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正確にこの土地の歴史を把握してしゃべっとるとは、とても思えない。 間違った歴史をしゃべって、多くの外国人に誤解を与える行為は許さんれとお思うがね！！！ SamuraiVillageと云っとるけれど、ここは、そうじゃなくて、伊万里焼の陶器の町なのに、変な表現をしとる事自体、大間違い！ This village is’t Samurai Village, this village is very famouse for its making pottery of Imari (伊万里焼）.
Yes but it was previously controlled by samurai, that's the meaning of the title. Furthermore if you write pottery village, hardly anyone is going to watch this video. If you can understand what's being said in the video in English, you'll understand that I said it was an ancient pottery village, previously controlled by samurai, who enslaved Korean potters, the history being told to the viewers isn't incorrect.
I lived in Matsue. Study for Master and doctor at Shimane University. I suggest you to visit Daisen. It's volcano located in the border of Shimane and Tottori prefecture
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As a Japanese who has been in North America for 20 yrs, and I haven't been back to Japan almost 6yrs, by watching your video brought me back to home country. Although I've never been to Imari, such a beautiful place.
Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for watching, and I appreciate the comment!
I live in the Italian Dolomite mountains and the similarities of old building construction and small village roads, bridges and everything is astonishing! ...beautiful!!!
Wow that's amazing to hear, I would never have guessed. Thanks for watching!
What I have noticed is that it’s so clean ,the streets ,the houses ,the lot ,so beautiful! From Cyprus !
Yeah everyone takes a lot of pride in keeping everything clean, they even have neighborhood committees dedicated to monthly clean ups. Thanks for watching!
The graves of koreans are ancient, but the flowers that were there were fresh.
Thank you all Okawachiyama residents.
The residents of Okawachiyama take good care of them, its really nice to see. Thanks for watching.
Fantastic. Especially great to hear about the history of the town.
Thanks for watching
Thanks for the beginning of Japanese potter history. Back in 1592 a shogun "Toyotomi Hideyoshi" invaded Korea one of his order to his general was to kidnap and bring Korean pottery people back to Japan because Korean potter technique was far superior so he needed this new potter technique. That is how modern Japanese potter was started. Currently there aer at least 3 family famous for potter and their orgin were from Korea.
Thank you for that information! It's very interesting, I wish I knew the extent of that that when I filmed this video.
meh koreans even claim confucianism is from them. tho feel free to claim the misogyny i guess.
@@FlipsideJapan Thanks for the great visuals of this video. Hideyoshi did liked his tea pottery because he also used it to leverage and negotiate with various clans those days due to it being a highly valued commodity (Which is why most accomplished Lords had a team of tea masters on stand by, as it was important to identify whether certain pottery were as important as it claimed). Korean pottery was one particular type certain samurais liked. Hideyoshi himself liked various Korean products. During the later years of his life he had a crazy obsession with invading Korea. One of his favorite retainer which he raised personally, Kato Kiyomasa, had a story of being in Korea and killing a Tiger and bringing back the skin/meat..general remains for Hideyoshi. He probably brought a lot of stuff back to Japan as well since he was one of the front line guys. To this date Kiyomasa is still very respected in the Kumamoto region as he was the daimyo of it.
That being said, Hideyoshi was not "Shogun", the term Shogun did not simply meant "general" unlike the modern use of the word (Especially the chinese langauge) it was a very particular rank. He was the ultimate ruler of his time but due to various reasons such as his peasantry bloodline he was not able to use that particular name as they had all types of traditional customs to come with rankings. He was referred to as "Taikō", which is sort of like the "chief advisor for the emperor" it didn't matter any way as he ruled with absolute martial power, just like Oda Nobunaga never had the Shogun name ranking as well. Tokugawa Ieyasu, however, has the title of Shogun, due to starting a formal Shogunate, hence the rank "Shogun".
Sorry for the long rambling haha! Really liked this video.
@@regwong9716 great information, thank you so much for that!:)
@@FlipsideJapan No problem, great content, subscribed :)
Not only your video beautifully presents but points out a piece of history that touches many of us Korean heritage. Thank you.
Thank you very much for watching:)
Great presentation of a beautiful village. Thanks for the interesting history also. I always marvel at how clean and neat these villages are. No garbage or weeds to be seen.
Yeah, I saw a few old men really taking care of their gardens when I was walking around, Japan has a lot of pride in it's appearance. Thanks for watching!:)
spent many years as a kid in Japan and never saw a place that was not beautiful and peacefull, more so in the mountain regions than anywhere else.
Definitely agree
This is very interesting history of making porcelain in japan history by Korean slave . Thanks for sharing with us , I live in Melbourne but spent many times to visit Japan and never though that an Australian has made video about Japan , well done .
Thanks a lot, have you visited saga prefecture or Kyushu where porcelain is famous?
Japan looks Soo mystical I want too live there
Lovely place
What a beautiful and amazing samurai village, so cool and peaceful a nice place to live. Im dhoriszh viewing from Maguindanao Province, Philippines.
Thanks for watching:)
Keep the good work bro ......continue be our eyes and show us more places like this🔥
Thanks for watching!
日本は本当にとても美しいです
美しいですよね
thank you so much.. this moved my heart.
Thank you for watching!
That's a cool back story! Nice spot. Brilliant.
Thanks for watching bloke!
Amazing and Very Beautiful Place
Thanks for watching 😊
✨Outstanding/beautiful ✨
Wish to visit wonderful/ancient Japan some years
Please do
Wow!!! Enjoyed this very much!!!
Thanks for watching:)
the graveyard was beautiful
Yeah it really is!
You need to do this video on a sunny day!
Lucky Japan is very aesthetic in all weather.
@@FlipsideJapan
You obviously are blind!
Watch your own video again, this time tell us what the fuck your trying to show us! The entire video is DARK!
@@touchofgrey5372 check out your video, it's literally filmed in the dark. Please tell us what the fuck you are trying to show there
@@touchofgrey5372 no match for your stunning cinematography eh mate? What kind of potato did you use?
@@touchofgrey5372 you might need to turn your brightness up fella
In my country villages look like villages 🙂 but this Japanese village looks like a great resort.
So clean & tastefully laid out. 👍
Yeah, Japanese villages tend to be laid out very nicely 👍
Thanks for bringing us to this place, was this the morning, its quiet.
Thanks for watching. This was in the evening, its nice to walk around when its quiet. Morning works too:)
@@FlipsideJapan keen on Science relations ?
Goethe weltweit ? Deutsche Welle ? Friendships between our worldwide countries
@@georgzausinger9730 what do you mean?
@@FlipsideJapan decide by yourself !! Any same intentions ^^
What a cool little town, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching dude
It's peaceful! I always dream of spending some time in one of those old and tranquil villages.
At the same time, as a Korean, I feel so sad, imagining that many Koreans were kidnapped and forced to spend their whole life, missing their home.
Thanks for watching. I'm glad that the slaves are honoured and remembered there today, their cemetery is beautiful and well maintained.
@@FlipsideJapan None of them wanted to return home.
@@yo2trader539 I fucking doubt that you idiot. Why did that guy run away ?
very nice, loved the empty streets
Thank you! Yeah evening or early morning is the best time to explore in my opinion.
I loved your commentary, followed along by your footage of the town. It was fun to see the scenery as I followed the story of the Korean potter who ran away to Kyoto. Great song as the end also~! 🤓
Thank you for watching!:)
Woah, great video! Have you been to Yamagata?
Thank you! No I haven't but I'd really love to. Do you have any recommended spots I should check out?
@@FlipsideJapan The Dewa Sanzan, and specifically Mt. Haguro! Really awesome little spot that I'm sure you'll enjoy judging on your videos :)
@@kiwiyamabushi Thanks a lot for the recommendations! :)
Thank you fror sharing of the interesting video :-) When I was a child, always watvch Japanese films on TV in Bangkok - Thailand. Lots of SAMURAI series - I really liked to see and always faninated of Japan ... Even never visit Japan before - I will surely visit Japan in near future, after COVID time :-) Best wishes from Stockholm - Sweden
Thank you, and I hope you can visit Japan soon!:)
Okawachiyama is a secluded pottery village just outside Imari . Often referred to as the Village of Secret Kilns, it was once an exclusive pottery hub producing porcelain ware for Japan's elite and for export.
That's what he said.. Did you just copy paste this off the internet?
Yep
Amazing. Some day I hope to afford a trip Nippon. Arigato gozai masu!
I hope you can visit soon, thanks for watching!
Thank you so much!! I like all about Ninja and samurai..!
Thanks for watching!
Love ur country and people from singapore
Hope you can visit sometime
You just earned yourself a sub from me. Great video. Appreciated the history lesson, too. A calm moment in an ever increasing crazy world for me...
I really appreciate that, and thanks for leaving a comment!:)
So beautiful place ❤️
It really is! :)
Nice one! cool story,
Thanks mate!
Is there many places like this in Japan ?
There are a few, but not really common. I visited another one called Omori recently too, there's a video uploaded for it:)
@@FlipsideJapan oh ok thanks
Peaceful
Yes very much! 😊
A parte l'architettura sarebbe interessante vedere l'interno delle abitazioni e soprattutto conoscere una giornata tipo delle persone.
If you go during the day you can see a lot of people go about their daily lives and go inside some of the businesses.
oh my goodness the story of the Korean slave was chilling..
A very unlucky chance that they found him working so far away from Saga.
I'm sure the residents wont mind me starting up a big block v8 at say 06h00 in the morning. I'll be the flavour of the day...
Nothing wrong with a bit of fishing after being up all night on the crack pipe eh? I'm sure they'll be amazed how you can power a vehicle with a boat anchor.
More like the douche of the bag but ok. You could just walk around with a “i have a tiny wiener” sign on and get the same attention you seek. Lol
Not a single sword master or any type of proof of sword making.
solid, thanks
Thanks for watching:)
Hello is their town accepting a move in. like can I move on the town like a vacant house I can pay for. I'm dying to live there
It's possible but probably quite difficult, there is a guest house there you can stay in next time you go for a holiday though if you want to experience it the town.
@@FlipsideJapan thank you
Didn't Nicholas Gage just make a movie there?
Actually I only just looked this up after seeing your comment. I have no idea of specific filming locations though, but I'd like to know..
I searched about route from Tokyo !my god it’s very far from here😢😂anyway beautiful village!!
Yes, in Saga prefecture! Put it on the list if you ever come to Kyushu. 🙂
Hidden gems off the usual track.
Great history, bet it gets a few day tourists for pottery when tourism is allowed too.
Aussie would appreciate that there's not much in that forest that would kill you unlike Australia
That's also true, the only thing you really have to be some what careful about here are wolves, wild boar and bears haha. Attacks are exceedingly rare though! Can't say I'm much of a pottery fan but I did enjoy the ambience of the village:)
My Dad was a samurai there.
Wangner Sr. Miss him
"Swimming pool looks abandoned to me".
Yeah sure the "samurai" used it as a sacred bath house...
Yeah sure....
Nudge nudge wink wink
Nice🤙
Well, in these Asian countries most peopel lived in a way as slaves. The life of the people was like that. Total obedience and very hard work. The natives were not better treated neither in Japan nor in China. I am not familiar enough with Korean history to know whether it was the same or not, there.
Yes life under the shogunate was quite difficult. It's sad that even today Japan's natives (the Ainu people) are still discriminated against.
Why not a single person in the whole village?
They're mostly inside for the evening, I did see lights on in houses as I walked around.
Why are there no people about?
It's a very rural place, most people were inside their homes for the night
Were the people?
Mostly inside during the evening I think.
Ninja hatori is from this village i suppose
His hometown:)
Where are the people?
Mostly inside their home I guess
You need to travel more within Australia if you think it is "arid and scrubbie". Visit the rainforests in Victoria, the Blue Mountains in New South Wales and the lush tropical forests of Northern Queensland. All around Australia you can find beautiful green environments. Explore your own country and appreciate it's beauty.
I've literally been to every single place you mentioned. But I'm not going off on a tangent about every single geographic location and environment in Australia on a video that has nothing to do with Australia, it was just a quick observation based on the fact that Australia has nothing that remotely compares to the forests of Japan.
wow this is almost as good as sammit
Hahahaha
It looks like an abandon village... Almost like 'spirited away'
Yeah for sure, its also one of my favourite movies.
no black samurai's mentioned here
Australia is not all arid and shrubby, only some of it is. Aussie has beautiful mountain regions, just as pretty as what you are walking through. Australia also have beautiful coastal regions.
I am Australian so, I am aware what Australia is like.
@@FlipsideJapan You're the one who said Australia is Arid and scrubby. So don't get crusty with me cause it doesn't sound like you know Australia very well for someone who is supposed to be an Aussie.
@@margyb7469 I've traveled all over Aus, our overall terrain is described as arid. The ADF's DPCU camouflage had it's colour scheme selected because of "Australia's arid bushland". Not sure why I'd go into detail about coastal regions etc in Australia when I'm clearly making a very quick comparison between common Australian bushland and common Japanese forests.
@@FlipsideJapan Oh good for you, you big traveller does that make you special. I'm an Australia of 63 years who also has travelled Australia and NO it is not mostly arid and shrubby, What is wrong with you?
@@margyb7469 do you understand the comparison I was making to tree's in the video. I'm not comparing the entire country of Japan and Australia's geographic features and terrain to each other. Relax.
damn its not secret anymore
I love Doremon ❤❤ Village
Secret?????
It was secret in the past, the samurai clan that controlled it kept it a secret.
poor samurai wiped out by there own people
So quiet...
Very peaceful:)
😎💪🙏
🙃
لولا النساء لعبد الله حقا حقا
محمد بن عبد الله
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Kui tenan kenyataan salman kui di gawe miss direksi karo aku.. Nek aku ngikuti pihake politik sampek kiamat.
Swimming pool
Clueless Donut
Yeah, like I said, it's a swimming pool
Inggris yo di apusi nek wes terjadi ngikuti intok hasil yo rak ndue kata mundur soale otomatis terlibat karo America Israel indo cina padahal hal ra bener
正確にこの土地の歴史を把握してしゃべっとるとは、とても思えない。 間違った歴史をしゃべって、多くの外国人に誤解を与える行為は許さんれとお思うがね！！！ SamuraiVillageと云っとるけれど、ここは、そうじゃなくて、伊万里焼の陶器の町なのに、変な表現をしとる事自体、大間違い！ This village is’t Samurai Village, this village is very famouse for its making pottery of Imari (伊万里焼）.
Yes but it was previously controlled by samurai, that's the meaning of the title. Furthermore if you write pottery village, hardly anyone is going to watch this video. If you can understand what's being said in the video in English, you'll understand that I said it was an ancient pottery village, previously controlled by samurai, who enslaved Korean potters, the history being told to the viewers isn't incorrect.
I love such quite village 😍
Me too! Very peaceful:)
I lived in Japan from 2001-2007. I really enjoyed their nature, environment and culture...
@@darmawandarmawan5279 very nice, where did you live?
I lived in Matsue. Study for Master and doctor at Shimane University. I suggest you to visit Daisen. It's volcano located in the border of Shimane and Tottori prefecture
@@darmawandarmawan5279 I just got back from shimane and tottori, I camped at Daisen. Expect a video soon!