The "western" method is for candles of lowest quality. My father makes his candels himself with wax from his own bees. This is the material german's only had used before parafin was introduesed. With good material for wicks (non syntetic), you can have very good "western" candels, too.
Thank you! Thought this as well. Loved the knowledge about Japanese candles but wish they had shown something other than lowest common denominator western candles
This isn't really a fair comparison. The "western" candles are mass-produced, low quality alternatives to the traditional beeswax candle. Having said that, beeswax candles were usually reserved for church use since they burn slowly with a delicate yellow light and don't produce any smoke. This made them more expensive so most people would have had a "taper" made from rushes dipped in tallow.
@@ApiaryManagerwhat made and still makes them more expensive is the work needed to get bees wax, but sure the churches demanding huge amounts of candles dident help
@@aggese I was referring to churches in medeival Europe. I'm not sure if the church requires pure beeswax candles anymore. I agree that beeswax is a "scarce resource" and requires a lot of manual effort to process .
@@ApiaryManager I like to use candles to light up my room at night instead of lamps, and I always buy the ones made from bee's wax precisely because they burn slowly + their light it's very pleasant, and to me they aren't at all that expensive. If you get them locally you can get a big one for 3-4€ and they last around 50-60 hours. They also generally smell better if you like them scented. I think how long they last offsets the cost if you aren't buying them as a one time decoration.
Well this informative video just became a new ASMR video for me! No one is talking except the credits and I can just relax and watch them make candles AND learn something new! ^^
pretty sure the biggest consumer of candles in the world is Greece. lighting a candle in churches is a must. they have these very thin long brown ones. millions of them
If you got the coin. I checked Amazon and they want for ONE size 10 (167mmX23mm) 6.6" candle, 29USD. Ouch. They had better be savored and used only for those Special occasions.
Just woke up to the sun here in america. Usually first we make our coffee...... started this program and feel amazing. Such highly skilled humans! Compared to um....american jobs! Love u japan
To be fair I much more think this is traditional Japanese candle making versus modern candle making. There are certainly handmade "western" candle. Either way I love to see the processes!
a inicios de la era Meiji el emperador decició para El y su pueblo que el progreso que occidente le ofrecía estaba bien pero que no por eso deberían perder su identidad en nombre del progreso, es así que evitaron el colonialismo primero Ingles y luego Estadounidense en el Imperio del Japón.
It would be more interesting to see comparable methods contrasted - this gives the impression that Japanese candles are all handmade and western candles are all mass produced.
Yes and why are they "Western Candles"? I am pretty sure there is just as much paraffin candles everywhere else. Ever ate chese coated with wax? 90% of those are coatied in paraffin. They should compare their candles with bees wax, wonder which burns longer and which wax just on its own is better
@Hitado Dota This video isn't meant to show tradition, it's a kind of factory tour for kids. So there is no idea in this video that they want to bash the West.
i remember hearing about candles using bayberry wax. you boil bayberries to get the thin wax coating from the berries. they are supposed to be expensive and burn cleanly with a nice scent. i remember the wax being a pale green color.
@@marthachampagne316 Bayberry candles used to be very popular but because of the manufacturing costs not so much these days. There is, however, an old superstition of burning a bayberry candle on new years, and a saying: "A bayberry candle burnt to the socket brings food to the larder and gold to the pocket"
Actually its all filmed in Japan. There’s a few times that show a box with Japanese text and a Japanese newspaper. Japan also produces quite a bit still, but most of their products are sold domestically.
China is west of Japan. Duh. There's a very, very famous story titled "Journey to the West". It's about...you guessed it (or not)...a journey to China by the Monkey King. Which is the basis for the Dragonball anime series, BTW.
At the time "Journey to the West" was written, the Japanese didn't know about the Americas. Besides...American is EAST of Japan! Across the Pacific Ocean. Look at a map.
@@athenawilson4019 I can't tell if you are being serious. Journey to the West was written in China during the 16th century and it was about a Chinese monk traveled to India to study and acquire Buddhist literature and he was accompanied by the Monkey King.
Well maybe some western candles I do not use anything but natural soy wax it is safe and cleans up with soap and hot water! The Japanese candles are art and beautiful! I love them and low soot like soy wax, and I only use wooden wicks of cherry and maple mix crackling when burning.
LOVE the handmade- non toxic traditional Japanese candles. Funny to think companies that just pour wax into moulds label their products as "hand poured" making it sound like it is bespoke haha. If Cire Trudon in France made Japanese candles like this way they would probably charge $500 for just one stick lol.
Thank you for the interesting video. I was hoping it might show "western" handmade candles, which I believe are dipped and made with beeswax, and tell the differences between them as it did in the beginning.
The Japanese candles are made mostly for Buddhist temples in Kyoto. The equivalent Western candle would be hand dipped, bees wax Cathedral candles, not factory paraffin candles. Cathedral candles burn brighter than Warosoku but blow out easier. They are made more efficiently, however.
I was waiting throughout that video to find out if I was going to learn the functional difference between them as they were both made differently. I'm not going to bother pointing out what 80% of people have said already lol I just wanted to educate myself in facts on japanese candles lol 😂 I'm sure RUclips's random recommendations will find something for me lol 😂
WELL I didn't think it was that bad, right up until the whole "Lets roll the candle by hand" bit.. like that's where I'd just had molds set up personally so I could have did my initial thing with the candles then let the wax in a mold harden on its own time.
@@douganderson7002 that's a simplified viewpoint but not necessarily wrong. I mean I'd rather eat beeswax than paraffin. Paraffin is what we use for our candles and it comes from oil. So yeah the natural route is better kn this case
Leone Auzston these are pretty ones (there are others on eBay) www.ebay.com/itm/TRADITIONAL-JAPANESE-HAZE-ROUSOKU-CANDLES-BOX-OF-5-LACQUER-TREE-SEED-OIL-CANDLES/311895732073?_trksid=p2385738.c100677.m4598&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908110712%26meid%3D8764334fe2b04006a9fdae28e6c2aaaa%26pid%3D100677%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D9%26sd%3D290616379458
Leone Auzston And if you would like to support the Artisans in the video directly, you could always go to their site...just a thought. www.japanesecandle.com/Japanese_Traditional_Candle.html
Or Western candles made by, you know, Westerners. Western candles can also be made quite beautiful with elaborate colors, shapes, layers, and designs cut into them, which you really can't do with a Japanese candle. Search for "hand-carved candles" and be impressed on what true beauty is.
@@BoopSnoot I remember back 30 years ago, when I was a freshly minted teenager I would go pull candles for Christmas. They would have 2 pots of paraffin I think, maybe 3 of different colors) and 1 of bee's wax in the cellar of my town's kindergarten and we'd be there hand-making those candles. *sigh* time goes by and things change. :-)
@@BoopSnoot Western candles are crap oil hungry wasteful westerners Miss the days when bees wax and wood wax were used rather than non renewable fossil fuels.
The "Western Style" of making candles, is not how we even make them, that is how eastern people believe Western people make candles. Go look up "how it's made, candles" to see how we actually make them, in an industrial quantity
both had their own pro & cons, traditional ones are unique due to their art and process to produce (might be a bit expensive), the modern ones are practical, easy to make therefore cheaper... but everything goes back to their user...
I wonder If Japanese wicks allow a draft through the centre of the candle. Western candles have several traditional methods of manufacture. It would've been interesting to see them contrasted.
@@Wallace_Tan my wallet . hurts ..... The prices Still would by one ..anything-from-japan.com/home-kitchen/home-decoration/candles-candle-holders/warosoku-candles
🇧🇷 So chic: they have porcelain bowls for the wax getting cold... why? The time consumed to make just one japanese candle , is the same time a western candle machine makes two thousand candle.
Shokara2 Japanese candles go for $10-100 each in the US (you can get a box of 3 or 4 for about $30-50 on eBay).US candles can be as low as a $1 each, but the Japanese candles are very solid (the wax is more lacquer than wax) so they last forever
It's 5 am, and I am watching candle making videos. The quarantine of 2020 can really change a man.
I watched 14min of content about candles. Worth it.
The "western" method is for candles of lowest quality. My father makes his candels himself with wax from his own bees. This is the material german's only had used before parafin was introduesed. With good material for wicks (non syntetic), you can have very good "western" candels, too.
Thank you! Thought this as well. Loved the knowledge about Japanese candles but wish they had shown something other than lowest common denominator western candles
This isn't really a fair comparison. The "western" candles are mass-produced, low quality alternatives to the traditional beeswax candle. Having said that, beeswax candles were usually reserved for church use since they burn slowly with a delicate yellow light and don't produce any smoke. This made them more expensive so most people would have had a "taper" made from rushes dipped in tallow.
@@ApiaryManagerwhat made and still makes them more expensive is the work needed to get bees wax, but sure the churches demanding huge amounts of candles dident help
@@aggese I was referring to churches in medeival Europe. I'm not sure if the church requires pure beeswax candles anymore.
I agree that beeswax is a "scarce resource" and requires a lot of manual effort to process .
@@ApiaryManager I like to use candles to light up my room at night instead of lamps, and I always buy the ones made from bee's wax precisely because they burn slowly + their light it's very pleasant, and to me they aren't at all that expensive. If you get them locally you can get a big one for 3-4€ and they last around 50-60 hours. They also generally smell better if you like them scented. I think how long they last offsets the cost if you aren't buying them as a one time decoration.
*No idea how RUclips bought me here, but I really want this Japanese tree candles after watching this.*
same here they look awesome
a mi me gustaría las nueces para sembrarlas y aprender hacer velas artesanales de esa nueva manera, me parecen más ecológicas.
Awesome
They're called Warosoku and are available on line.
Well this informative video just became a new ASMR video for me! No one is talking except the credits and I can just relax and watch them make candles AND learn something new! ^^
pretty sure the biggest consumer of candles in the world is Greece. lighting a candle in churches is a must. they have these very thin long brown ones. millions of them
Mental note: *When in Japan, buy candles.*
If you got the coin. I checked Amazon and they want for ONE size 10 (167mmX23mm) 6.6" candle, 29USD. Ouch. They had better be savored and used only for those Special occasions.
Nighthawke
Buy candles-CHECK
Just woke up to the sun here in america. Usually first we make our coffee...... started this program and feel amazing. Such highly skilled humans! Compared to um....american jobs! Love u japan
Am I the only one who loves the music in this? Whatever genre it fits into, I want more of it!
So many beautiful things are handcrafted in japan, love it!!
risingsoul u are an idiot
dont be rude
Luc Tran What are u on about, twerp! Japanese run the best.
risingsoul In fact Japan is such a beautiful country.
risingsoul \
To be fair I much more think this is traditional Japanese candle making versus modern candle making. There are certainly handmade "western" candle. Either way I love to see the processes!
The Japanese candle making is amazing. A truly handmade candle. I really appreciate the beauty and hard work. Thank you
The smallest ones are what are used in churches when lighting a candle for a loved one ! Fascinating stuff !
the ones we use in sweden are way taller than those itsy bitsy ones they look like birthday candels to me just thicker
I don't know how fair this is this is modern western and classic japanese I think they show have shown traditional both ways
a inicios de la era Meiji el emperador decició para El y su pueblo que el progreso que occidente le ofrecía estaba bien pero que no por eso deberían perder su identidad en nombre del progreso, es así que evitaron el colonialismo primero Ingles y luego Estadounidense en el Imperio del Japón.
The ASMR of this video is phenomenal
It would be more interesting to see comparable methods contrasted - this gives the impression that Japanese candles are all handmade and western candles are all mass produced.
Why they flexxing like that on our western candles?
pagsran hechas con cera de abejas, y desde la explotación masiva del petróleo se usa la parafina, y duran poco
because they can't hold a candle to those made in Japan by folding over a thousand times
@Oslo Cloonson, Flexxing lol 💪🏿 Lol
Yes and why are they "Western Candles"? I am pretty sure there is just as much paraffin candles everywhere else. Ever ate chese coated with wax? 90% of those are coatied in paraffin. They should compare their candles with bees wax, wonder which burns longer and which wax just on its own is better
@Hitado Dota This video isn't meant to show tradition, it's a kind of factory tour for kids. So there is no idea in this video that they want to bash the West.
Such excellent craftsmanship! I will look for this when I visit Japan to buy and bring home some.
i like the japanese candles more....they are made with natural resources...they look beautiful...so much hard work.
The Japanese are so amazing, and they do everything so wonderfully!!
AMAZING, totally love the Japanese candles for sure. I will go and search where to purchase some for family and friends. Thank you so much for videos.
Awesome stuffs here ... cool japanese candle
Brilliant! I make beeswax tapers and will never again complain about the difficulty. ✌❤️😊
I just wanted to note that western candles can also be made of bee's wax :)
If some other material (parafin) IS used, you might say it's "none of your beeswax!" ;-)
Also from sheep tallow.
or soy.
i remember hearing about candles using bayberry wax. you boil bayberries to get the thin wax coating from the berries. they are supposed to be expensive and burn cleanly with a nice scent. i remember the wax being a pale green color.
@@marthachampagne316 Bayberry candles used to be very popular but because of the manufacturing costs not so much these days. There is, however, an old superstition of burning a bayberry candle on new years, and a saying: "A bayberry candle burnt to the socket brings food to the larder and gold to the pocket"
Thank you for this wonderful video. I do so enjoy learning.👍
Japanese are really artists,,, amazing.. Thank you.
Thank you for posting this video. It's really nice and informative.
WOW! I absolutely enjoyed this video! TFS!
how japanese candles are made: they show some japanese dudes make candles
how western candles are made: they show some chinese dudes make candles
Actually its all filmed in Japan. There’s a few times that show a box with Japanese text and a Japanese newspaper. Japan also produces quite a bit still, but most of their products are sold domestically.
China is west of Japan. Duh. There's a very, very famous story titled "Journey to the West". It's about...you guessed it (or not)...a journey to China by the Monkey King. Which is the basis for the Dragonball anime series, BTW.
At the time "Journey to the West" was written, the Japanese didn't know about the Americas. Besides...American is EAST of Japan! Across the Pacific Ocean. Look at a map.
@@athenawilson4019 I can't tell if you are being serious. Journey to the West was written in China during the 16th century and it was about a Chinese monk traveled to India to study and acquire Buddhist literature and he was accompanied by the Monkey King.
@tiger sun shouldn't it be journey to the south if they were travelling to india?
Western handmade candles are traditionally made with beeswax or tallow... but japanese candles beautiful...😍
This was magnificent! Thank you for posting.
I appreciate the candle maker's giant cat calendar
Well maybe some western candles I do not use anything but natural soy wax it is safe and cleans up with soap and hot water! The Japanese candles are art and beautiful! I love them and low soot like soy wax, and I only use wooden wicks of cherry and maple mix crackling when burning.
Even their candles taper the opposite way xD
So lovely though, gorgeous.
I love the music of this series. It sounds like Danny Elfman wrote it for a revival of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Candles that don't exploit bees, nice.
The Japanese candles are beautiful
Exelente trabajo felicidades Dios los bendiga
LOVE the handmade- non toxic traditional Japanese candles. Funny to think companies that just pour wax into moulds label their products as "hand poured" making it sound like it is bespoke haha. If Cire Trudon in France made Japanese candles like this way they would probably charge $500 for just one stick lol.
Literally no one:
RUclips: Let’s put this video in the recommendation... amazing
This was unexpectedly interesting to watch. Also, props to Japan. I loved being there. Amazing people.
That's so cool 😎 the candles are better made👍also want a sapling too😁👍
I want a traditional japanese candle. That's freaking art.
Search "hand carved candles" and see Western candle art.
Also we have candles in elaborate shapes like angels or made from other substances like beeswax.
mucho arte y excelente trabajo en un solo video!
The Best videotape
Thank you for the interesting video. I was hoping it might show "western" handmade candles, which I believe are dipped and made with beeswax, and tell the differences between them as it did in the beginning.
its show for Japanese and also from the looks of it the whole process seems to be similar with slight variation nd finally not a comparison video.
Ich sehe mir sowas für mein Leben gern an! Danke!
a beautiful work of art!
Japanese candles... Thanks for New information
loved it soo nice of the presentation n techniques of making candles
So much work, wow..
WOW. it takes all that to make candles? thats awesone
I love the old Japanese arts. Thick wicks
The Japanese candles should be selling in the US. Organic is the way to go!
Japanese candles are sustainable and look like they work brilliantly
That kitty calendar tho lol
The Japanese candles are made mostly for Buddhist temples in Kyoto. The equivalent Western candle would be hand dipped, bees wax Cathedral candles, not factory paraffin candles.
Cathedral candles burn brighter than Warosoku but blow out easier. They are made more efficiently, however.
Any candle can be made dripless by a simple dip or brush coating of shellac. it burns cleaner and more complete with minimal residue.
Japanese are known for being hardworking and dedicated to their crafts!!...Filipinos love easy money!
Dindo Lee Not all japanese people are like that and so as Filipinos, don't generalize too much.
Fascinating.
1 batang lilin = 140rb. But, its Art, seni itu harganya tak terbatas 👌🏻
This is so oddly satisfying
He must have the softest hands....and I want some of those candles
That is about the temperature of my dish/rinse water when I wash dishes
Japan's craftsmanship is best
🇧🇷 How come a black substance as petroleum can produce something so transparent and white as paraffin?
Of course Japan is one step ahead of us in everything.
Saya suka prosesnya 😊
After searching the making of western beeswax candle,I found it lit too!
I was waiting throughout that video to find out if I was going to learn the functional difference between them as they were both made differently. I'm not going to bother pointing out what 80% of people have said already lol I just wanted to educate myself in facts on japanese candles lol 😂 I'm sure RUclips's random recommendations will find something for me lol 😂
Handmade ,traditional Japanese candles, $67,000 a piece. Mass produced Western candles, a nickel for a thousand.
excelente video🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👍
look at the artistry of making these candles . I wonder where I can purchase them, and how can I tell the fake ones from the real ones?
so much work goes into japanese candles, thats probably why its more resistant to wind, more stable.
the Japanese are good at a lot of things but holy shit did they overcomplicate candle making.
Uhm, tradition? Common sense. Duh
small brain will think like this
WELL I didn't think it was that bad, right up until the whole "Lets roll the candle by hand" bit..
like that's where I'd just had molds set up personally so I could have did my initial thing with the candles
then let the wax in a mold harden on its own time.
There are advantages.
@@douganderson7002 that's a simplified viewpoint but not necessarily wrong. I mean I'd rather eat beeswax than paraffin. Paraffin is what we use for our candles and it comes from oil. So yeah the natural route is better kn this case
I've never seen these types of candles before where can an American buy some? The internet? My mom would love them.
Leone Auzston these are pretty ones (there are others on eBay)
www.ebay.com/itm/TRADITIONAL-JAPANESE-HAZE-ROUSOKU-CANDLES-BOX-OF-5-LACQUER-TREE-SEED-OIL-CANDLES/311895732073?_trksid=p2385738.c100677.m4598&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908110712%26meid%3D8764334fe2b04006a9fdae28e6c2aaaa%26pid%3D100677%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D9%26sd%3D290616379458
sweets08816 Thanks you so much.
Leone Auzston
And if you would like to support the Artisans in the video directly, you could always go to their site...just a thought.
www.japanesecandle.com/Japanese_Traditional_Candle.html
SacchiMoto I did and Pinned it for others to find -- thank you for the information! 😊🌸
Fascinating
They totally forgot the hand making part of western candles...🤔
Or Western candles made by, you know, Westerners. Western candles can also be made quite beautiful with elaborate colors, shapes, layers, and designs cut into them, which you really can't do with a Japanese candle. Search for "hand-carved candles" and be impressed on what true beauty is.
@@BoopSnoot I remember back 30 years ago, when I was a freshly minted teenager I would go pull candles for Christmas. They would have 2 pots of paraffin I think, maybe 3 of different colors) and 1 of bee's wax in the cellar of my town's kindergarten and we'd be there hand-making those candles.
*sigh* time goes by and things change. :-)
@@BoopSnoot Western candles are crap oil hungry wasteful westerners Miss the days when bees wax and wood wax were used rather than non renewable fossil fuels.
@@Acidinkstudio you can still buy beeswax candles, they're pretty common.
Yet another reason why I love Japanese culture!!
I wonder if they can use the material used in traditional making candle using modern technology.
Japan,,, the name is sufficient... Nice video.
I think it deserves 1 dollar each.
Thank you
The "Western Style" of making candles, is not how we even make them, that is how eastern people believe Western people make candles.
Go look up "how it's made, candles" to see how we actually make them, in an industrial quantity
Ohhhh my. God it is soo beautiful
both had their own pro & cons, traditional ones are unique due to their art and process to produce (might be a bit expensive), the modern ones are practical, easy to make therefore cheaper... but everything goes back to their user...
حتى الشموع مبدعين بصناعتها
I wonder If Japanese wicks allow a draft through the centre of the candle. Western candles have several traditional methods of manufacture. It would've been interesting to see them contrasted.
thank you for english!
music from around 9:20 sounds totally like something that would be pause screen music in a japanese nukige
How long does the Japanese candles burn for? That’s a super cool technique. Love it!
和ろうそくの店主？っぽい人、かっこいいな。
こういう風な壮年になりたい。
Cool! Thank you
nice documentary....
They must cost like 50 dollars each
Looked like about 21 dollars each
@@Wallace_Tan my wallet . hurts ..... The prices Still would by one ..anything-from-japan.com/home-kitchen/home-decoration/candles-candle-holders/warosoku-candles
@@blackgriffinxx That really isn't too bad. I thought it would be much more.
Is the Japanese wick centre a little wood stick
You can fully automate the Japanese candle making process as well.
David T no doubt but why lose the art to machined processes? Too much work ?
@@nancyc5922 munny hunny
Marvellous.
Im a chemist and i love working with natural waxes... I use them to make natural deodorants
🇧🇷 So chic: they have porcelain bowls for the wax getting cold... why? The time consumed to make just one japanese candle , is the same time a western candle machine makes two thousand candle.
what is the price diffrence between the hand made Japanese candles and the western style automated process?
Shokara2 Japanese candles go for $10-100 each in the US (you can get a box of 3 or 4 for about $30-50 on eBay).US candles can be as low as a $1 each, but the Japanese candles are very solid (the wax is more lacquer than wax) so they last forever