🚶♂️ Japan Mountain Village Encounter 日本の村人を満たす - Walking in Japan 日本のモンスター
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- 🚶♂️A visiting friend and I explore a small village in the Japan Southern Alps and are welcomed into the home of an elderly tea farmer and his wife. The couple's son and daughter-in-law are visiting from the city and the family is busy making Japanese rice cakes called mochi. Mochi making is a very special activity in Japan and this family is making three color mochi in celebration of the Japanese holiday Girl's Day (hinamatsuri) which is a special day reserved for young girls. Girl's Day is normally celebrated on March 3rd in Japan though the people in this particular village celebrate the holiday in April due to the fact that the month of March is still rather cold and unfestive in the high mountains.
Few young Japanese know how to make mochi the old fashioned way and it's a real treat for us to get to watch the family steam a special type of rice called mochikome over a wood-fired stove before pounding the rice by hand in a large wooden basin. I've tried this myself with my wife's family and I can report that the hammer is very heavy and the process much harder than it looks, as one poorly aimed swipe will strike the side of the basin and send tiny splinters of wood into the mochi and thus ruin the batch. Also, to do the job properly requires a coordinated effort between the man swinging the hammer and the woman turning the rice. Many older men in Japan take considerable pride in their ability to handle the hammer well and mochi making events within large families (like my wife's) can result in some pleasant competition between the men taking turns at the hammer. The couple in the video were very kind and even gave us a little tour of their home. The wife proudly showed us the family's collection of antique scrolls including one which depicts several significant figures in the Japanese imperial line. We can roughly date this particular scroll by the fact that the small child shown at the bottom of the scroll is the Showa emperor Hirohito who was born in 1901 and ruled Japan until the end of World War Two. The husband has lived in this village his entire life while his wife grew up in another village across the mountain and moved to this home when the couple was married in 1955. The house where the couple lives is more than 100 years old.
At the start of the video we walk through rows of cultivated green tea plants. As it is almost the tea season the plants are nearly ready for harvest, and at one point you can see a shade tarp over some of the plants which is a common practice in this area and is done just before harvest in order to sweeten the tea. In the video we get a quick glimpse of a small garden with Japanese wasabi plant growing in a tiny flowing stream. Wasabi is the spicy green horseradish used to season sushi, and wasabi root requires very clean, cold water to grow, and many farmers in this area make use of the mountain's abundant rainfall to grow wasabi for their own use or to sell at small roadside stands along the highway. Many of the farmers also raise a special type of edible freshwater fish in special pools fed by the streams. Another point of interest with this old home is the fact that it includes a special indoor work area called a doma just inside the front door. The doma was where the rice pounding was being done in the video and traditionally this special area of the home was reserved for outdoor work which might need to be performed indoors in bad weather. In this case the rice pounding is being done inside in order to reduce the chance of dust mixing into the rice paste. The doma was also the area where the kitchen and bath might be located. The actual living area is raised up and away from the floor and one's shoes must be removed before entering this area of the home. Most modern Japanese homes will have only a small area within the front door called a genkan which serves the same function. It was rather dark inside the home and I was unable to properly film some wonderful sights such as the open ceiling which revealed an intricate lattice of huge hand-hewn beams with interlocking joints held together without a single nail.
Before we said our thanks and departed the family filled our hands with large and delicious Japanese oranges and wished us well in our further ventures which included a visit to a lovely Shinto (native religion of Japan) shrine immediately behind the family home and a leisurely stroll through the rest of the village admiring the wonderful antique architecture.
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Thank you for your great video. I'm 40 years old Japanese. The last time I did "mochi-pounding" was more than 30 years ago. Now I make mochi with a mochi-making machine. I'm so amazed at your understanding of Japanese culture and history as well as your excellent Japanese.
とても懐かしい。我が家でも40年ほど前までは、年の瀬に臼と杵でお餅をついていました。釜で餅米を蒸し、竃のある部屋は蒸気で真っ白になり、蒸し上がった餅米の良い香りに包まれたものです。家族みんなで臼を囲み、ぺったんぺったんとついたものです。いつの頃からかやらなくなり、この動画を見ながら涙が止まりませんでした。懐かしさと貴重なものを失った空虚感で。我が国もどんどんと伝統が失われています。家族の団欒が減り、心の豊かさはもう取り戻せないでしょう。我が国の貴重な伝統を記録して頂き、本当にありがとうございます。時々拝見しにお邪魔しますので、登録させてもらいました。
Thank you for your nice message and heartfelt sharing about your own life. I really appreciate it. And I’m sorry it took me so long to respond. I hope you are well and that 2024 is a great year for you. Happy new year! :-)
懐かしい…祖父母と暮らした頃の家を思い出します
おじいちゃんとおばあちゃんの家の思い出を共有してくれてありがとう。 明けましておめでとう
What a treat to come to you tube today searching for something to watch and finding this beautiful video that you have shared! It is so much fun to learn about how others do things and how they live!
I remembered my great grandmother who died.Thank you for a wonderful movie. 亡くなったひいおばあちゃんを思い出して、少し泣いてしまいました。素敵な動画をありがとうございます。
変わる物と変わらないものがある。本質を残しながら変わるのが日本の特技であり伝統。
Thank you for sharing your experience with that wonderful kind & thoughtful Japanese family. What lovely people they are!
Nicely filmed though its a kind of "home made" movie. Usually the Japanese are friendly and hospitable nation. Its a well known fact. Thanks for posting this nice one, softypapa.
This is the kind of life I want.. Living in a city as long as I can remember is wearing on a person's spirit.. I need to learn Japanese and get out into the mountains of Japan somewhere. Thank you for the beautiful videos!
Q- at 4:40 you take a tour of the home. The old man runs ahead into the next room and stands before something important to him, then stops.
The cook then walks over and points to something inportant, VERY important, so much so that of all things she wants only to talk about this one thing...a poster?
Explane?
They're very famous historical figures that most japanese people love
この動画は日本の特徴をよくつかめていてとても良いと思います！
自分としても誇らしいです
Np. I thought it was pretty cool! Thanks!
i am always love japan😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
Thank you so much for recording and posting these. They are treasures and so enjoyable to watch. Domo arigato.
how simple and happy life can be.... this is inspiring
風情のある家にいらっしゃいますね。
非常にうらやましいです。
Thank you so much for uploading these videos Kurt. I have been to Japan as a homestay for 2 weeks from New Zealand. My homestay was in a city house near Kyoto and I never got to experience Japan's traditional lifestyle. I'll definitely be going back there though ^_^ Once again thanks for the videos~
Wow what a treat!!! I would love to spend time with the grandma( Obaa-Chan) in this video and help her prepare foods in a traditional way every day.
The elderly lady was so sweet and nice 😊😊❤️❤️
Wow! That's really awesome. What a great warm and welcoming family.
So happy to hear the family was so welcoming. Reminds me of the movie Kikujiro, where a bunch of strangers help a kid on a journey. I wish them well. Glad to know sone old traditions are still maintained.
Wow! That old woman is tough-strong and doesn't seem to be burned too much from the steam and fire. I'm impressed.
an excellent glimpse of what old time traditional Japanese life is like. Very Cool!
Special moments sharing home, past and present information about history and meal prep rice .Thank you
This is pretty fascinating!
excellent
Hello Bonnie, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video. Have a great day! :-)
These Japanese people are very friendly. Thanks for Nice video. Love it
This video is awesome, these people are so different from those you can find in big cities like Tokyo. They look happier, simpler and way more friendly!
Thanks for uploading!
Great video. Japan is Awesome! And I love walking in the mountains of Japan they are so beautiful.
Japan is bless with montains and water
awesome video,
the honest life is the healthiest and happiest life in my experience.
oh wow that is so amazing! What a wonderful experience that must have been...
You guys probably made those old folks year by stopping by.
i hear most of the rivers there are polluted, its a shame they arent all fresh water.
that was cool
I really enjoyed this. Often when watching videos in Japan I lament the lack of human interaction. They are often of locations, or dealing with cultural aspects, but only on occasion do I find something like this where there is more of a human element.
WOW talk about beutiful nature!
Mochi is mostly about texture. It is very soft and smooth, gummy (but not chewy) and 'fluffy'. It is one of my favorite things eveerrrrr...
Fantastic! Thank you for this beautiful video. You have an amazing channel, your videos will be very interesting to sort through and watch. :)
Good luck.
thanks for sharing this
I L💓VE
Japan
great, great food !!
This is an amazing video! I'm so glad you shared this with us. =^.^= This is a beautiful house and truly happy family. And the Mochi they are making must be delicious! I have only had the green mochi myself, and have not tried the white or pink.
Aww the old lady was so cute! They seem so friendly! (Alicia Marchesseault)
I miss you making new videos.
Absolutely amazing. I've been in Japan for about a year now (i'm currently studying abroad at the moment) and have a large break coming up soon. I'm desperately hoping to work my way through some of the more rural communities that I can find, and maybe if I am lucky I can have an experience like this! I've explored Tokyo like you couldn't imagine, and now I am hoping to get a taste of the countryside.
I get the feeling mochi isn't the brand new modern food invention created in the past 5 years as I originally suspected. The joke is on me.
Q- at 6:19 the cook is looking at a 2nd poster thats on top of the 1st. The seems to be something important about this scroll?
Then at 6:22 the cook shows a wrinkeled paper with writeing. It's seems to be always out to be seen and handled a lot.
Explane?
nice
Please keep making videos!!
reminded me of my mother's relative's family whom were living in the mountainous area...
now the whole village is under the dam, go sake, why....
yeah that would be great. Not sure when I'll make it back to JP, but its going to happen.
Exploring the mountains is my favorite.
Have you been to the Kita Alps?
What a great experience you had on that day. I would love to visit japan one day. In fact I'm saving to visit already. What a nice family to have invited you in to their home! I wish you well in all your journeys. What is this place you visited called?
D.R. San Antonio, Texas
私もいる富山もすごいですが、ここもすごいですね。どこですか？
@softypapa yea yea... i must go there someday...
oichi Y_Y i liked it as a kid espesialy daufku or somting it was a ball like ting squashi Y_Y
does anyone know what location is this? what region? i would like to visit this quiet place...
Mochi is very yummy :p
i want to live in japan with a couple friends. no electricity. paper windows. in the japanese mountains. far from modern civilization. just pure green hills, a garden (our main supply of food), a martial arts dojo, and in the dojo is an armory with weapons ranging from a yumi and ya to a naginata. a firing range for the yumi and ya, and a kitchen where we make ramen.
How did you become fluent in Japanese?
that old lady is secretly a Ninja :D just like in "The way of the samurai 3 " on xbox :P
What is the importace of number 108 in japanese culture ?? We indians also consider 108 as a sacred .
what does mochi taste like?
Oh that is sad they moved away. :*(
北海道では、伝統などありえない（きっぱり）
しかし、自然なら腐るほどあるさ(笑)
jesus japan is so amasing.................
@softypapa How do you live there, then? Are most Japanese fluent in English?
I presume by lots of study and practice and making a lot of mistakes along the way. Learning any language fluently that isn't your native language will be time consuming and many times difficult. Helps to be surrounded by people speaking the language you wish to learn.
ㄎㄎ~~等等喔！也許只有這種環境才會有這些人瑞喔~~嘿嘿~~~~
I hate that these people are going to be passed away when I finally get to go there, or that just all of the worlds old people from the better times are all going to be gone.. Who is going to carry on the traditions? No one...
ㄎㄎ~~如果改變的話？？？嘿嘿~~~~呵呵~~~~~哈哈~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@Pawnbroker00 he never claims be an expert anyway.
@yesiamanalien yea old = good