A Master Sculptor Has Been Devoting His Life to Maintain the Wood Sculpting Buddha-Making Tradition

For this month, many people who loved my previous videos have asked me to show them the skills of the great master artisans (very few people alive) and even older but they are still trying day-by-day to pass on traditional values to the next generations. To thank and honor them, we decided to create a series of video shows about them and their work from the footage available from my friends and myself.
#woodcarving #sculptor #BuddhaMaking
During a recent visit to Asaba Buddhist Art Studio in Osaka's Asahi ward, I met the husband-wife team of Mukoyoshi Yuboku and Nakamura Keiboku, two of Japan's most lauded contemporary artists of Buddhist statues, paintings, and crafts. While it may seem stubborn, the Japanese sculptor Mukoyoshi Yuboku creates his pieces only in wood to maintain the sculpting tradition. While Nakamura specializes in iconic Buddhist paintings and crafts using cut gold leaf. They are extremely amiable people and their love of religious art is palpable. The carving process of the Fudou Myouou half-size statue takes about one year that will show you all. I have devoted all my efforts to this video and I hope you enjoy it!
To make this video getting better, I've written the script very carefully and hired a professional Female Voice Over to reading it, at the same I have added some shots of mine, new effects work, new music added and a new creation is created as “Carving Buddha | Mukoyoshi Yuboku’s world”
 Asaba Buddhist Art Studio (あさば仏教美術工房)
Address: Japan, 〒535-0002 Osaka, Asahi Ward, Omiya, １丁目17-3
Phone: [phone]
Website: asaba-koubou.com/
 Learn More About Mukoyoshi Yuboku (born 1961; began training in 1980)
asaba-jp.com/profile/index.html (Homepage, Profile, J-site)
butuzo.com/busshi/index_n.html (Contemporary Buddhist Sculptors, J-site)
tokyotrad.com/mukoyoshi.html (Order online; more photos, E-site)
 Learn More About Nakamura Keiboku (began training in 1980)
asaba-jp.com/profile/nakamura.html (Homepage, Profile, J-site)
asaba-jp.com/sakuhin/butsuga.html (Photos of her artwork, J-site)
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[@versterker1981]

Absolutely staggering work ... Came via the American artist Charles Ray, for whom Mukoyoshi Yuboku and studio carved a piece called 'Archangel' - possibly the most stunning work of art I've ever seen ...

[@michaelburrows6160]

I was already blown away by the time they got to the bamboo knife gold leaf cutting and application...it was at that moment i fell out. Don't even get me started on the seaweed paintbrush. Absolute ...Masterclass!!🙏🙏

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@michaelburrows6160]

@@WoodworkingEnthusiasts every second of that video is a gift to any craftsman and/or human that finds it. Continued blessings to you and yours 🙏

[@henryl6420]

I want to have such a wonderful Buddha statue and pray to the Buddha every day.

[@MANJITSINGH-ko2oi]

SO so beautifuly carved.

[@BambooWoodworkingArt]

So talented, I've always liked what craftsmen do.

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

thank you very much!

[@robertb.seddon1687]

Domo! What beautiful, inspirational work! Bodhisattva-like patience to produce such beautiful objects!😎🤙

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

Thanks a lot!

[@ponysoldier6770]

Unreal, so much skill, Thanks for sharing❤

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

Thanks for watching!

[@legendrebernard2549]

Mukoyoshi artist sculptor and her wife the artist Nakamura Keiboku are of the hightest level in their arts thanks a lot for sharing the great beauties they realize each day of their lives. It is an important gift for us merci beaucoup c'est superbe and the video is absolutly perfect thanks to the production :) :) :) :) :)

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

Thank you very much!

[@legendrebernard2549]

@@WoodworkingEnthusiasts apleasure merci à vous

[@seanfarrand9167]

Damn that gold leafing was absolutely mental. How good does that look?

[@samanthadean1083]

Thank you for adding the subtitles!!! I love learning about these crafts, but I do not speak fluent Japanese, so it was often difficult trying to understand what I was watching!!!
Fantastic job!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

You're welcome 😊

[@judgesan9542]

OMG that is what you call a keen eye and a steady hand excellent workmanship what morons gave it a thumbs down.

[@zmai2681]

❤❤❤😍😍😍

[@taunteratwill1787]

Yup, praying problems away! Always a good one in comedy! :-))

[@AD-jz8nw]

Bonzaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii , remember that show?

[@ponysoldier6770]

His thumb at 15:24, I'm sweating

[@oneshotme]

Do the wives not take the husbands last name when they get married??
Enjoyed your video so I gave it a Thumbs Up as always

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

Good question! No, she wasn't

[@oneshotme]

@@WoodworkingEnthusiasts Thank you

[@shtonker8]

Thank you for the video BUT who is the introduction narrator?? Computer?? Can't speak Japanese...then someone else took over lovely.

[@WoodworkingEnthusiasts]

no, I hired a professional female voiceover to reading it. not bad, is it?

[@tamdaonguyen8486]

Only Japanese artists are able to do such magnificient artistic works, I guess