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15 Minutes - Season 4 Episode 16 A Treasured Creation: The Bond with Urushi, Japanese Lacquer

2023-12-30 15 minutes.
6.50 2 votes

Season - Episode

5 Season 5 Jan 05, 2022
3 Season 3 Jan 08, 2020
2 Season 2 Jan 09, 2019
1 Season 1 Jan 28, 2018

Overview

Japan's world-famous lacquerware is prized for its versatility, beauty and shine, which is due to the varnish made from the sap of Urushi trees. This sap is harvested by hand in small amounts through a meticulous process of scraping and cutting. Tobita Yuzo (86) carries on a lifelong pledge of brotherhood to the Urushi trees as one of the last few remaining harvesters. To make sure this legacy continues, Tobita plants thousands of new trees in the hopes of making a forest full of Urushi.

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Popularity 1.0224
Language Japanese, English