Hirakawa Yasuhiro is a master blacksmith for Sasuke in Sakai, Japan, who forges scissors with techniques that were used to make swords, knives, and weapons. Japanese-style gardeners like Yoshikawa Masakazu are willing to wait a year to get their hands on a pair of scissors that’s perfect for maintaining bonsai trees.
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Meet One Of The Last Blacksmiths In Japan Forging Bonsai Scissors By Hand | Still Standing
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Its really sad his son says the work is too difficult to carry on the legacy. Lazy kids these days are a damn shame
It's amazing the level of dedication some people put into seemingly mundane things, like trimming shrubbery
Dam hes one of a kind especially since he says he sleeps and wakes up thinking 💭 what he can do for improvement…. That’s passion and just life long dedication to honor his people before him. Sir your people will be proud to see how long you carried their legacy. Mad respect 🫡 again.
They call it a craft for a reason it needs time
26000 yen is different than 26000 dollars
japan should protect their culture there should be a system for that to preserve it. a lot of people interested in japanese cultures
I passion a good blade with respect. I would enjoy taking up the teachings.
if i was the son of yasuhiro i would take resposibility to preserve the tradition . its like a respect for the dead
Beautiful. Its a true pleasure to see this level of skill and artistry in action.
If I ask them to make normal scissor not for bonsai will they make ?
If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut.
You know what else is forges using Sword-Making Techniques? Everything. Literally every single metal item uses the same techniques.
0:38 dudes easily impressed. Guess he has to find a way to justify spending thousands on damn scissors to cut weeds with. Hey whatever let's him sleep at night.
0:47 at those prices, I worry it may not. 😢
IM JOKING!!! I LOVE THIS STUFF!
Interesting~
Maybe people from Ernest Wright can visit him?
Extremely great and interesting.
I made a pair of these same style in two hours this evening. Get this man a belt grinder, he already has a power hammer. I forge welded a piece of 1084 for blades to A36 for handles. Finished product almost identical.
Snippers steel forge
Good to see sasuke relaxing after all the great shinobi wars he’s been thru 😌
$26,000? 🤯🤯🤯 I can buy 5000 pairs off ebay 🤣
If is made from a bar of steel is NOT japanese traditional blacksmithing, it is just a marketing trend. Old blacksmithing is made from iron dust or tamahagane. This is just an overpriced forged from rebar steel scissor.
Why do you guys post the same video after sometime?
I have seen this video already like few months ago
You can tell it’s the right temperature just by looking at the fire… yea right
I really loved watching this video. Actually I even thought to ask him to teach me. I would not mind learning for the next ten years and developing mastery….. I might actually do it! Awesome inspirational video for artists!
Kinda sad to see a profession like this die
26k? Damn who was that who bought that?
What a beautiful thing to see someone enjoy what they love
What a beautiful film… weldone Hardik
Make "why are bonsais Soo expensive"
me : how much skill you need to ha…
Japanese: YES!!
Fantastic
SASUKEEEEEEEEE
the chinese make such a meal out of what ever they do
they have to put such a story on every thing.
master of this and that
it is just scissors even cheap ones will cut as good
what a load of shit
I admire Japanese craftsmen beyond anyone else. This master is an artist.
isn't everything that cuts and forged are using sword-making techniques?
"Why Japanese air is so expensive"
Wild Dirmir is a great blacksmith
A lineage spanning 26 generations, a direct family tradition of 155 years.
Now that is impressive. Full respect to him
I feel Japan and her people are very different from the rest of the world.
I spill my water when they said his workshop called Sasuke 🤣
The dedication these Japanese master craftsmen have to their craft is beyond amazing
I would be deeply honored to own and use one of his snips, sadly I'm probably too broke to afford the cheapest down grated model he has.
I truly hope his sons can carry on his legacy that their family traditions paved the way. This world would be at a huge lost without your family's craftsmanship.
Not a wood burning furnace it’s called a coke forge or charcoal if using charcoal
Definitely a cut above !
I have no clue how to do any of this but if I were to meet this man I would let him know that I would love for him to teach me everything. Even if it means changing my life completely to move out there.
Let's face it a 99p pair of scirrors will do the same job.
4 years is bull! Its the same shape 🤣. When Japan's economy was rubbish 100s of years ago. Every1 claimed they made the best stuff. They added pointless steps to be different. It's still stuck to this day as they made something special. It's a pair of scissors.
I'm sorry but it's just a bit stupid. Using prefabricated steel and a power hammer doesn't exactly feel like "traditional methods and materials" and what idiot is going to pay such an outrageous amount for something that does the exact same job a dollar store pair of scissors can do just as well? This is such a ludicrously niche luxury item, it's shocking he has any business at all and I really don't understand why he has any, period.
It's a fuckin pair of scissors, mate, not a goddamn Fabrege egg. Get over yourself.
so you want to tell me he needed 5400 hours for one pair of scissors.