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There are dozens of things in Japan dying off as traditional things become more difficult to make due to the demand not being what it once was. Kimonos [0] Sw

by swang 10y ago

There are dozens of things in Japan dying off as traditional things become more difficult to make due to the demand not being what it once was. Kimonos [0] Swords [1] Kaiseki [2] Hand Tattooing [3] Urushi [4] 0: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8082875/Kimono-making-in-Japan-is-a-dying-art.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8082875... 1: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/korehira-watanabe/ https://www.tofugu.com/japan/korehira-watanabe/ 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC7ddflgvvQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC7ddflgvvQ 3: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/24/entertainment/la-ca-culture-japan-20120624 http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/24/entertainment/la-ca-... 4: http://web.archive.org/web/20150812060006/http://enterjapan.me/the-dying-art-of-urushi/ http://web.archive.org/web/20150812060006/http://enterjapan....

venomsnake 10y ago
On the other hand the market for both traditional and western style Japanese knives is exploding. And there is growing market for premium knives made from tamahagane and using traditional sword making techniques. The case with Wilfried Fehrekampf and blaupließten - he was the last to know the traditional German grind (not the axes that Wusthof repurposes as knives lately) - but he found apprentices and the new Herder 1922 are terrific. There will always be market for the traditional.
spacecowboy_lon 10y ago
I know one guy recently went to japan to learn traditional swordmaking - some of his work is in Birmigham (UK) museum staggeringly beautiful and deadly.