E3.1 - My Mom Really Is Amazing!

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SIGN    Gathering Ideas for Our Pottery
SIGN    Narration by Wakai Yuuki
[00:02] nar
    In this episode, we check out all sorts
    of pottery to get inspired for our next pieces!
[00:07] nar
    And what's this? The work of
    a living national treasure?!
SIGN    Kirameki ☆ Unforent's "Rinne x Reincarnation"
SIGN    The Yakumo voice actresses make a
    one-of-a-kind piece of pottery!
SIGN    Gathering ideas from the works
    of a living national treasure
[00:47] nar
    In season two, we're attempting to make
    a one-of-a-kind piece of pottery!
[00:48] txt
    Making a one-of-a-kind piece of pottery
[00:51] nar
    To gather some ideas for our pieces,
[00:55] nar
    we'll be looking at some of
    the best pieces in the world.
SIGN    Looking at the works of a living national treasure for inspiration
[01:00] nar
    That's why we came to the Arakawa Toyozō
    Museum in Kani, Tajimi's neighbor city!
SIGN    Arakawa Toyozō Museum (Kani City, Gifu Prefecture)
SIGN    On display are the achievements and works of living treasure, Arakawa Toyozō
[01:07] nar
    Who exactly was this Arakawa Toyozō-san
    that they made an entire museum for him?
[01:15] Guide
    So, Arakawa-san, as a person...
SIGN    Plays Aoki Touko
    Honizumi Rina
SIGN    Plays Toyokawa Himeno
    Tanaka Minami
SIGN    Plays Naruse Naoko
    Wakai Yūki
SIGN    Plays Kukuri Mika
    Serizawa Yū
[01:17] Girls
    Yes.
[01:17] Guide
    Do you have an idea what he was like?
[01:20] wak
    I did hear that he's a
    living national treasure.
[01:23] Guide
    Correct.
SIGN    Katou Keiko-san
[01:23] Guide
    There are living national
    treasure for many things,
[01:25] Guide
    but Arakawa Toyozō-san
    was the first person ever
[01:28] Guide
    to get the living national
    treasure designation
[01:30] Guide
    for the Shino and Setoguro style of pottery.
[01:32] Girls
    Wow.
SIGN    The first living national treasure from Tajimi
    Arakawa Toyozō
[01:35] Voice
    Arakawa Toyozō-san was a potter
    born in the city of Tajimi.
[01:39] Voice
    Designated as a living national treasure,
[01:42] Voice
    Arakawa Toyozō-san was a person who
    rewrote the history of pottery!
SIGN    The shard of a Shino bamboo shoot cup Toyozō found
[01:47] Voice
    This shard was how he did it.
[01:51] Voice
    Apparently, this is a shard from a Shino cup,
[01:54] Voice
    a style that ceased to
    exist 400 years ago...
[01:58] Guide
    So, until Arakawa Toyozō-san's discovery,
[02:00] Guide
    it was thought that this type of pottery
[02:03] Guide
    was being fired in the kilns of
     Seto in Aichi Prefecture.
SIGN    Arakawa proved that Shino was fired in Kani, Gifu prefecture
    rather than Seto, Aichi prefecture as had been believed.
[02:06] Guide
    But with his discovery here in Kani,
[02:08] Guide
    proved that Shino ware was
    actually being fired here in the Mino area.
[02:13] Guide
    This was a tremendously important event.
[02:16] tan
    That changed history.
[02:18] guide
    Yes, that changed the history.
[02:23] Voice
    Not only did he discover that,
[02:26] Voice
    but Arakawa Toyozō-san also managed to
    recreate Shino ware based on that shard!
[02:31] Guide
    On the right, we have one of
    Toyozō-san's recreations.
SIGN    400-year-old Shino-ware shard
SIGN    Toyozō's recreation
[02:33] Guide
    On the left, we have a piece of Shino ware
    dating back to 400 years before that.
[02:37] Girl
    So he used that shard to make this?
[02:40] Guide
    That is correct.
[02:40] Guide
    You can see the edge of the shard, right?
[02:44] Guide
    He was able to see the inside and
    tell what kind of clay was used,
[02:49] Guide
    and how the glaze was applied.
[02:51] Guide
    He studied this shard and worked
    to make his own recreation.
SIGN    Studied the shard to make his own recreation
[02:56] Girls
    That's amazing!
[02:58] Guide
    It truly is amazing. He recreated
    it from square one.
[03:01] Guide
    He was the one who managed to do that.
[03:03] wak
    Amazing.
[03:06] nar
    This museum also has the house
    where Toyozō-san lived.
SIGN    Toyozō-san's home in Kani City
[03:12] nar
    You can go inside and see
    Toyozō-san's favorite place.
[03:16] Guide
    Right here.
[03:17] wom
    Oh wow, you can see inside!
[03:17] tan
    Look at the window!
[03:18] ser
    You can see how he lived!
[03:20] Guide
    Yes, that's how he lived.
SIGN    Bedroom
[03:21] Guide
    This was the room he used for sleeping.
[03:26] Guide
    It's rather small, but from here,
    if you could just look over there.
[03:31] Guide
    What do you see?
[03:34] Guide
    Do you see the stone monument-like thing?
[03:36] girls
    Ah, yes!
[03:37] Guide
    That's actually the spot where he
    discovered the shard of Shino ware,
SIGN    Discovery site of the Shino ware shard
[03:41] Guide
    the same shard that you saw in the museum.
[03:44] hon
    So it was right there!
[03:45] Guide
    That's right. It was this exact spot.
[03:46] Guide
    They say this entire area
    was very important to him.
[03:53] hon
    It's like you wake up, say good morning.
[03:55] hon
    Then bam, open your door and you're
    already here, in this spot.
[04:00] ser
    For us, there's like 120% high rises.
[04:03] wak
    True.
[04:03] ser
    High rises, houses.
    Or buildings, convenience stores.
[04:07] hon
    Right.
[04:08] ser
    But here, you have this
     instead of those things.
[04:10] ser
    I think that this is how your
    senses get keener, you know?
[04:12] wak
    Yeah, I think otherwise you
    couldn't make stuff like that.
[04:14] ser
    It really makes you think, huh?
[04:18] nar
    And there is one more person living
    national treasure that Tajimi produced!
SIGN    Living national treasure from Tajimi
    Katou Takuo
[04:22] nar
    Potter Katou Takuo.
SIGN    Koubeigama Kiln
[04:25] Voice
    This time, we'll be taking a
    look at Katou-san's works!
[04:29] wak
    We're being teased.
[04:30] Girls
    Wow!
[04:32] Girls
    What?!
[04:33] ser
    That gloss looks totally different.
[04:36] tan
    Wow!
[04:37] wak
    How is it so shiny?
[04:39] Guy
    This is a ceramic called Lusterware.
[04:43] Guy
    Depending what angle you it from, it shines
    in different colors like a jewel beetle.
[04:47] Guy
    This Lusterware is the only type of
    pottery in the world that does that.
SIGN    Katou Ryoutarou-san
[04:51] Voice
    This is a piece of the fabled pottery
    technique, Persian Lusterware,
[04:55] Voice
    that is said to have ceased
    being made 300 years ago.
SIGN    Persian Lusterware
[04:58] Voice
    The most impressive property
[05:00] Voice
    is that the colors change depending
    on the angle you look at it.
[05:05] Voice
    Katou Takuo-san spent 20 years to
    recreate this lost technique!
SIGN    Spent about 20 years to recreate Lusterware in Japan
[05:11] Voice
    That's too incredible!
[05:14] Voice
    So that means a Japanese person
    recreated the technique,
[05:17] Voice
    something that even the local
    people had not managed to do?
[05:20] hon
    Oh, right.
[05:20] ryo
    That's right.
[05:22] All
    That's amazing.
[05:24] wom
    Just like Toyozō-san revived
    the Shino ware technique.
[05:28] hon
    Reviving a technique is
    such an impressive feat.
[05:32] tan
    I mean a culture that had sort
    of stopped being passed on,
[05:35] tan
    to bring that back to life,
    that's really so amazing.
[05:39] ryo
    Since we already have it out here, would
    you like to try some tea from this cup?
[05:45] tan
    Are you sure that's okay?!
[05:46] ser
    Really?
[05:48] ryo
    Yes, please.
SIGN    A special treat, tea from Lusterware
[05:50] nar
    Incredible, we get a special treat and get
    to have matcha from this Lusterware cup!
[05:56] nar
    Minami will drink for us all.
[06:07] tan
    This is lovely.
[06:08] tan
    It's so warm.
[06:10] tan
    Thank you for this.
[06:12] wak
    That's really such a lovely cup.
[06:22] tan
    It is so delicious.
[06:24] Man
    Thank you so much.
[06:26] wak
    When you live in Tokyo,
[06:29] wak
    you almost never get the chance
    to do something like this.
[06:32] wak
    You don't say on your day off,
    "Oh, I guess I'll go catch a tea ceremony."
[06:36] ser
    When you have a tea in Tokyo,
    it's more of a party.
[06:39] ser
    Where girls get together
    to eat sweets, you know?
[06:43] ser
    Maybe the people living in Tokyo would
    need something like this the most.
[06:47] All
    That's true.
SIGN    Tajimi Station
SIGN    Honmachi Oribe Street
[06:51] nar
    After we saw the works of the
    living national treasures,
SIGN    Looking at the future of pottery to get inspiration
[06:56] nar
    our next stop is at the Tajimi City
    Pottery Design and Technical Center.
SIGN    Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center
SIGN    Aspiring potters from all over the country come here
    It has produced over 900 potters and designers
[06:59] nar
    This is a place to learn
    pottery; a pottery university.
[07:06] nar
    Young, aspiring potters from all over the
    country come here to improve their skills.
[07:12] all
    Hello.
[07:13] nar
    We're going to take a look at
    some of these students' pieces.
[07:16] nar
    Who knows, one of them might be a
    future living national treasure!
SIGN    Kashima Aya from Kanagawa Prefecture
[07:21] nar
    Kashima-san is making these
    cracked pottery pieces.
[07:25] nar
    This is so unique.
SIGN    Miyachi Shingo-san from Gifu prefecture
SIGN    Katou Masaki-san from Hyougo prefecture
[07:28] all
    That's so cute!
[07:30] nar
    Miyachi-san and Katou-san
    are making tea cups.
[07:34] nar
    The colors and forms are all so
    lovely, that this slipped out...
[07:38] wak
    How much could I buy this for?
[07:40] Hon
    No, really.
[07:42] tan
    How much would this be?
[07:43] nar
    Next, we got to look at the
    graduating class's work.
[07:48] wak
    What? Dolls? This is great.
[07:52] wak
    They're all looking at us.
[07:54] ser
    This reminds me of bowling.
[08:00] hon
    You're right.
[08:01] tan
    So cute.
[08:02] wak
    We'd be in so much trouble.
[08:02] ser
    They're going like this.
[08:05] ser
    What do you think they want?
[08:07] wak
    Oh, yeah.
[08:08] ser
    It really looks like they're
    hoping for something.
[08:09] wak
    You can interpret them in so many ways.
[08:13] hon
    You really can.
[08:14] ser
    Some of them are in shorts, some in pants.
[08:17] hon
    Oh yeah, they've all got
    slightly different clothes.
[08:18] tan
    I'd have so many questions for
    the person who made this.
[08:22] hon
    Right?
[08:22] tan
    I'd love to talk to them.
[08:24] hon
    It's great.
[08:26] wak
    I feel like I'm in a museum.
[08:30] ser
    So if these are the pieces
    of the graduated class,
[08:31] ser
    that means they still made
    these as students, right?
[08:34] ser
    How are they all so talented?
[08:38] nar
    We saw so many pieces and
    got so many stimuli!
[08:42] nar
    What kind of piece should I make now?
SIGN    Next time: Making a sketch of the pottery piece
[08:47] nar
    Next time, we'll be making sketches for
    our one-of-a-kind piece of pottery!
[08:52] wak
    Like this.
[08:53] nar
    We'll be learning so much about the
    tools used in pottery making, too!
[08:57] wak
    I've literally never seen
    any of this before.