A 750-Year-Old Secret: See How Soy Sauce Is Still Made Today | Short Film Showcase
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2017
- See how Japanese soy sauce has been made for 750 years in this fascinating short film by Mile Nagaoka.
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In the 13th century, a Japanese priest returned from a trip to China and settled in the small, coastal town of Yuasa in Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture. He brought with him several new skills that he had learned from the Chinese, including a process for making miso (a soybean paste). The liquid byproduct of this miso-making process was eventually adopted by the people of Yuasa as a condiment of its own-giving birth to what we know today as soy sauce.
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I've got an essay due and an exam tomorrow, yet here I am watching how soy sauce is made.
How did it go
He graduated with a 4.0 3 years ago.
@@Photonblastt i was gonna ask dat
😂
It's funny how the internet is plagued with students.
Soy sauce was developed in China over 2000 years ago, and later introduced to Japan. Since then, Japanese and Chinese styles of making soy sauce have diverged a bit.
I don't trust this information...Chinese may be invented something close to soya sauce, but not the actual suua sauce
"In the ancient streets... of USA"
lmao captions
Stupidest comment award
Yuasa
@@Rhoadie1 yo mama
That was funny indeed 🤣🤣
😂😂😂😂
The cinematography is just absolutely gorgeous, and the narration is so calming ❤️❤️
"...unchanged for over 750 years"
*worker presses button for hydraulic press*
mkay
yup
Gibran Ali lol
Good call. LOL.
Now, don't let this small technicality spoil such a wonderful claim.
best hydraulic press video ever
3:25
pneumatic
chris hayes * hydraulic
Thank you for wortching and have a nice day.
I bet it's 750 years old.
i watched this with my dad when it first came out the year before my life got increasingly harder. now since then this video is a comfort to me, reminding me of simpler times where it was just me and my dad. i miss those days and it hurts knowing they won’t be back.
❤❤❤
I'll set this straight, keep in mind Soy Sauce is the English word for Jiangyou, Dou-yu, Shoyu, Tamari. These sauces share a lot in common, but they are all different sauces. Yuasa is where Shoyu was invented.
But it IS made primarily of soy, right? Good just checking with the holy master. Thank you oh holy master! What would we do without your glowing guidance? You must be a god.
brian rhoads PEPPER SAUCE IS MADE FROM PEPPER? Wait all pepper sauce are the same. Thank you holy master god thing
It depend on the kind of sweat that trickled in during the process.
Thanks for the clarification friend
Bro, it’s just soy sauce.
very cool. I admire traditions that are unchanged by time, even in the face of easier, faster, and more efficient means of production. There is something to be said about unwavering dedication to ones craft/history
Soy sauce is my favorite condiment, hands down.
Awesome cinematography.
What else did you expect?
It's National Geographic.
Guess I cant praise it then.
Casey Neistat video filming is looking at the same way. So you don't need to questions what had happened here.
People are seriously getting annoyed that I was offering my two cents and complimenting the makers of this video. Just because its National Geographic doesn't mean anything. I'm referencing Mile Nagoaka, the maker of this film, and I think he'd be happy to know that he did a good job.
smh.
yes it was! and I appreciate your complement, it's refreshing to see positive comments. just know that when you do that the negative people will try to beat you down lol. and this looks nothing like Casey Neistat.... lmao there is someone that I'm guessing does not have much of a cinematography breath just trying to act like they know something by spitting out one of the few names they know. Probably a teenager not really exposed yet. But trying to make connections between film makers is goid, just try to be humble about your lack of knowledge, if not it will get in your way.
The cinematography in this video is on point, good job!
The intro should be corrected to "Yuasa, the birthplace of Japanese soy sauce." Soy sauce was originally invented by the Chinese during the Zhou dynasty (3000 years ago) using fermented meat. Then in the Han dynasty (2200 years ago) , soy bean was used as a substitute. In the 1200s, this art was brought back to Japan.
Exactly.
nice cinematography😃
Subhadeep Dey, IKR! I wash all channels were like this. They are like this on Vimeo tho
Subhadeep Dey hh
An above average, well done, respectful documentary on an above average, well done, respectful sauce. Too brief, though. How It's Made vids are longer!
came here just to say this. kudos to you
Subhadeep Dey nice cinematography but poor visual storytelling of subject matter. The filmmaker seemed more interested in aesthetics and composition than actually showing us how soya sauce is made.
This is amazing, I never knew they made soy sauce like this. What a great video :)
Well done for such a short film!
Why was this so intriguing yet calming at the same time?
I love the cinematography and editing of this video 😍
Dr Aaron / 東亞病夫 Yum! Umami galore! Can't live without my soy sauce. Some do not realise what a magic ingredient it is! A little goes a very long way in transforming the flavour of food.
Very informative to watch and learn where my favorite condiment came from :)
Fascinating piece. Thanks for sharing
One of the best sauces ever.
The cinematography of this is just amazing!
So interesting, I love these kinds of videos
Really nice piece. Informative and meditative at the same time. Great cinematography as well. I love soy sauce.
this was shot, edited, & graded very well
Beautifully made, NatGeo at it's finest
Really well shot video.
Wow, I really enjoyed this short doco ❤️
4:11 the bit where some guy sweats into tub of steaming soy sauce, for that special hand-skimmed flavor.
beautiful cinematography..
Anugrah Ramadhan Always is.
Indeed, that's why I didn't understand why some people give thumbs down
Divo Ario maybe people give it thumb down because there are a little bit misleading fact, the first soy sauce is from china, not yuasa or japan.
Except in description the fact is true that the first shoyu or japanese soy sauce is from Yuasa. There is a little difference that makes the fact misleading. Because there are a difference in context of soy sauce in general or japanese soy sauce.
I am not from china or japan, but because i am really love history, i give it thump down(dislike because of the wrong fact). But the cinemagraph and production quality is very good i admit
you're beutiful too
Better than some hollywood films
I needed this, thank you
I could watch another hour of that process. Fantastic filmography
As many of the comments below reveal, this is a beautifully made short film of a particular soy sauce making tradition. One would hope with the NGS at the helm that the historical context would have been more closely examined and, as many commenters point out, corrected. Salt sauces appear around the globe -- the Romans had four distinct varieties -- and so the idea that Japanese soy sauce originated in a particular town by a particular monk makes for a very interesting legend, how well it reflects actual history is something the kinds of users the NGS seeks to inculcate are left wondering about.
Stunning!
Love ur profile pic
ok
😉
Thanks for giving away their 750 year old secret recipe and techniques. I'll be laughing when I'm enjoying my very own secret soy sauce in *3 years.*
Soy sauce was established and produced in Japan? According from wiki: Soy sauce was developed in China over 2000 years ago, and later introduced to Japan. Since then, Japanese and Chinese styles of making soy sauce have diverged a bit.
The cinematography 👌🏼
Damn Natty Geo really stepping up their game with these mini docs. That was awesome and beautiful.
soya suace making feels like a great piece of art ... thanks for the video and awesome cinematography ...
The grading, just so beautiful.
Is that Tyrion Lannister?
You mean your Mom? Yeah I think I saw her.
Omg. I always love their hardworking traits!
Excellent cinematography!
Probably one of the most beautifully produced videos i have ever seen. I felt like i was there.
japan really has a strange combination of the old traditional classics and the modern
Well yeh.. ancient culture with somewhat recent modernization.
Not really. They still use fax machines, so more ancient than modern.
Is not strange. It is a smart way to keep grounded. Also, a lot of our advances are either harmful to the environment or harmful to us so not strange but rather smart.
can it get anymore beautiful than that ? 😭
Fantastic camera work !
absolutely relaxing video. :) and I learned something. :)
3:37 *THE MONEY SHOT*
The birth of KIKKOMAN. Beautiful cinematography.
Thank you for making that !
breathtakingly beautiful filming and editing
so how was it made?
U don't want to know
the title is over stating. as the video said itself (assume the information is cirrect). Yuasa is the birth place of soy source "in Japan". however it is very impressive of how their traditional workshop survive from later and more profitable mechanical manufacturing. good job!
Beautiful cinematography! I need to know the equipment and camera settings!!
Very interesting !!
The narration is a little bit misleading , if he say about first shoyu or japanese soy sauce. That is not wrong, but what he say is the soy sauce as general in which is historically come from china, there article about this in wikipedia. And even i think the first soy sauce that generaly in the west is from chinese immigrant that live there. There are not many japanese immigrant before world war 2, where in china, the people already moving out since 15 or 16th century and bringing their food and culture with them.
Beside that the short film is good, the quality is best but natgeo should check their fact straight before post anything like this. Misleading in history is not good in science. It is like if the film say that new york is the birthplace of pizza when in reality is from napoly.
Wow!
Did not expect to see that much cinematography
Wonderful documentary
Please produce more content like this. Thanks.
excellent cinematography,clean and relaxing
the birthplace of Japanese soy sauce. Not soy sauce. Misleading
*_VERY_*
In the 13th century, a Japanese priest returned from a trip to China and settled in the small, coastal town of Yuasa in Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture. He brought with him several new skills that he had learned from the Chinese, including a process for making miso (a soybean paste). The liquid byproduct of this miso-making process was eventually adopted by the people of Yuasa as a condiment of its own-giving birth to what we know today as soy sauce.
Soy sauce is soy sauce. Why care for the difference?
no, the soy sauce you are referring to is Japanese soy sauce. Chinese soy source originated in 3rd century and is even more widely used than the Japanese version. So I am saying it is not the birthplace of soy sauce, it is the birthplace of Japanese soy sauce.
to make your comment more precise, I would add "giving birth to what we know today as JAPANESE soy sauce.
Film crew and editors deserve a pat on the back for this one!
Every shot is just beautiful.
"For it was here in the 13th century that soy sauce as we know it was first established and produced."
People either skip or ignore this part of the video while claiming that the facts are incorrect. Most of us know it originated in China but that's not what the narrator says.
I dont have any problem with most of japanese, as a chinese (my ethnic not nationality, i even never been to china). I even had lived in japan some years ago, but seen in the internet like in this video where there are a comment from japanese that claim that soy sauce is from japan not from china is making me sad about humanity. I even read in other video or internet forum when chinese and korean debate to japanese, there are a japanese that claim that the korean is not colonialize by japan but the japanese are helping them and other asian country. That comment got many likes.. seeing many things like this makes me sad that in japan the extreme right is getting more and more.. i also dont like china because of the government and not civilized people from mainland china, but at least in internet if it is about the debate of culture or histocially i am still sided more to china or korean because japanese tend to not know or distorted their history about war or about their culture.
I made this comment not because i am sided with china, even i dont like the china now as a country. But because i am loving history and i dont like some people or group of people to distorted the history
What both of you don't seem to understand what the narrator is trying to say is that the type soy sauce the world knows most commonly is a Japanese version. That's what he means by "soy sauce as we know it" he is not by any means at all claiming invented it. Just that the soy sauce that was introduced to the rest of the world comes from Japan.
Narrator did say a Buddhist monk from China settled in the area and produced Soy Sauce.
What are you, an idiot?
Who cares... its just soy sauce. Lets not fight over such a trivial thing
"in the ancient streets of USA..."
I love the cinematography!!
amazing! never knew it was made this way,I have a lot of respect every bottle I buy now thanks for sharing :)
anybody know what brand of soy sauce this is?
Great, now do one on schezwan sauce.
Thank you for sharing!
A wonderful story of Soy Sauce!
Good presentation of Soy Sauce!
🤔😊🤗
What a delightful little film!
I'm Japanese
but I never knew how to make soy sauce
I'm not a Japanese but I know how to do bukkake
I'm American but I've never fired a gun
so nan desu ka
I'm Greek but i don't owe anyone money !
nikke k YOU DISHONOR YOUR ANCESTOR
5:03
RIP headphone user
very interesting and educating 😁😁😁
Wow, that was amazing to watch.
Japanese soy sauce is a totally different product than the Chinese one. Those arguing in the comment section, give me a break
Before i reply you, i am just say that i am not from china, but in the beginning of the film is a little bit misleading. He say that “the first soy sauce is from yuasa”. He say soy sauce as general. So that is wrong, first soy sauce is from china.
It doesnt have any problem if he says “The first japanesse soy sauce is from yuasa”.
It is like people says (for example) that the motorcycle is from japan because now they produce many good brand of motorcyle but the fact the american already use motorcycle (harley) before japanese (honday, yamaha) produce its first motorcyle.
There is nothing wrong about debate about the wrong fact, they must at least change the narration a little bit like in the description, because the description is not misleading like the narration in video
one shown here is the same.. Tamari on the other hand is made without wheat, i think that's the one ur talking about..
not that very different, China is the birthplace of soy sauce having a large variety of soy sauce, as mentioned above Japanese soy sauce is imported from China. surely, it is very easy to find some soy sauce similar to the current Japanese one in China
Thanks Captain Obvious.
@sheldon pereira The soy sauce this video shows is called "shoyu", a light soy sauce typically used for cooking and as a condiment. As a general rule, Japanese soy sauces tend to have more clarity and less solids, giving them a more sharply defined soybean taste on the tongue. Chinese soy sauces tend to be slightly thicker and more opaque, and the taste is a more even blend between saltiness and soy. Going further afield, soy sauces from South-East Asian nations are even darker and thicker (and often sweeter, due to the addition of molasses into the mixture) than Chinese soy sauces.
The video's description about Yuasa being the birthplace of soy sauce is a bit misleading, yes, but all of the posturing about which region has the "best" soy sauce is silly. I'm Chinese, and I'll readily admit that shoyu is my preferred soy sauce out of all the different varieties I've tasted, but that's not to say that the other variants are worth any less. Different soy sauces go better with different kinds of dishes (I wouldn't dream of eating Hainanese chicken rice without dark, sweet soy sauce, for instance), and it all comes down to a matter of taste.
This was fascinating. Who knew lol
i always thought it was made on aisle 3 at krogers.
It's spelled 'aisle' not 'isle'...isle means island.
beautiful piece of art...
Amazing. Thank you.
Agree, China is obviously the first to produce soy sauce, not Japan. the title should change to "Japanese soy sauce" instead.
exactly!
lilamazon Not only that, the narrator in the beginning said Soy Sauce originated from that town
tyvek05 go google it and do your research. Soy sauce was invented and originated from China.
Even the technique for making a katana was from China through cultural exchange.
tyvek05 Hey I'm as big a Japanophile as the next weeb, but do you have a source for this 'fact'?
Soy Sauce? You mean Jiang? Jiang wasn't the liquid form like you see and it was more like a sub product of Miso and if specifically TAMARI SOY SAUCE then it wasn't originated in China. the process and technique were originated in China for sure.
"secret"
what is it?
Vatsyayana dumbass
Outstanding cinematography!
Great video, well made and very interesting to see people still make it by hand. Have to say though, the makers of this video should have made the fact clearer that they meant Japanese soy sauce not soy sauce in general. That would have avoided 99% of the argument in the comment section.
It depends on what you consider "soy sauce". The current popular iteration of "soy sauce" made from *wheat* and soybeans fermented with koji mould was invented in Japan. Sure China has had fermented salty soya bean sauce from much earlier - but it's not what many people will call soy sauce today. So what if China made "Soy Sauce" from soyabeans and fermented fish in 50AD. It's not what a modern person would identify as Soy Sauce.
Similarly, "Beer" in Egypt is not the same as what people today would call "Beer". The modern iteration of what we would identify as "Beer" (conditioned/carbonated bottom fermenting lagers or top fermenting ales) did not exist until much later. Germany invented Lager. Not Egypt.
Similarly, Japan invented the wheat+soy based sauce that we call soy sauce, or shoyu, today.
Ancient "Beer" and ancient "soy sauce" are different things that modern folk wont recognize... But if you went to 15th Century Germany and tried their Lager, you would recognize it as a Lager... Just like you would recognize a 13th century Japanese Yuasa Shoyu/soysauce.
so cheese is not cheese, you are too stupid to be convinced
Yes exactly! I agree that the West has had a particular favor for Japan above other Asian countries due to post WW2 relations, which I think is the root of many of these critical comments, but to say soy sauce (as it exists today) isn't Japanese because of its Chinese origins is like saying Zen Buddhism isn't Japanese because of Buddhism's Indian root (or that pasta isn't Italian because it comes form noodles which spread to Europe from China) = its a simplistic and ultimately inaccurate perspective.
It doesn't matter, Soy sauce originated from China. You can't deny Pizza came from Italy even if it doesn't look like what they used to be.
Not really. The procedure of making soy sauce from wheat and soybeans is recorded by a Chinese book edited between 533AD-544AD.
@@YY-ms1dz yup so pasta is not Italian because the Chinese making noodles out of wheat has been recorded even earlier 25 AD
I love Japan people and their country
Its a shame they don't like us foreigners back
Nice cinematography
how nice.. great job
I thought it was the Chinese that created it in the first place.
you are not wrong
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy_sauce
Usually when you say it's the 'birthplace' of something it means where
it was 'born' or first 'discovered', obviously someone is a fucktard and
fucked up massively, whoever wrote this shortfilm should drink bleach
for being a fuckwit! Well shot though, goods use of the slider to
create movement and journey.
This is true, however the Japanese are better at producing essentially everything they lay claim to so just let it go.
lol soy sauce is not a high tech product, and I think China will catch up in terms of high tech technology, it's only a matter of time.
YUASA YUASA YUASA!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
If it's made in Yuasa it must be good! (I couldn't resist...). The photography is awsome.
Brilliant Video. Where can i buy exactly that soy sauce? Please let me know.
that's why i love japanese culture because they don't forget the way of their ancestors..ganbate nippon
This is one of the reasons, why Japanese products are great. They are so dedicated what they doing
Who ever shot this did a great job.
Amazing video
Kikkoman is the best soy sauce
Japan the BIRTHPLACE of soy sauce?!?!? HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
I knew that Soy Sauce made popular today started in Japan but I never thought of where in Japan. Thanks for the short documentary. :D
Incredible cinematography❤