Ces japonais ont les mains bleues, voici pourquoi !

Ces japonais ont les mains bleues, voici pourquoi !

There is a village in Japan inhabited by people with blue hands and not just any blue since it is an ancestral and sacred blue in the country resulting from traditions dating back centuries it is sometimes called Japanese blue but the best known its name

Ind today there are only a handful of men and women left to defend and represent this authentic color and in this video I went to meet them to find out where this very particular blue came from accompanies them in their daily life but above all why is it so important for

[Music] [Music] Japan today I am going to do something incredible since I am going to meet these famous people who have blue hands I I came specially for this to Japan on the island of Chikuku more precisely so it is the smallest of the four main Japanese islands

I am really towards the south and besides I am right next to the smallest Japanese prefecture so really here there are not many people as you can see I am relatively alone in the ghetto this is what also gives the charm of this part of Japan we

Are very far from the 37 million inhabitants in Tokyo really the atmosphere is not is not the same I want to tell you that we are going to immediately get lost a little bit in seruel and then go to meet these famous people with blue hands as you must have surely

Seen on my channel youtube I traveled a good part of Japan starting in Tokyo to go north to the Tooku region then south taking the night train to arrive at Chikoku I was able to see throughout this trip the the importance of traditions and

Crafts and shikuku perfectly reflects this Japan anchored in its culture the island has a concentration of mystical places and typical villages like that of Mima and its merchant houses it is really the ideal place to immerse yourself in the heart of historic Japan and discover these

[Music] traditions I am on my way we will soon arrive in this famous place and I really want to tell you something is that I am very lucky to be able to share all of this with you because I actually contacted the place where we go to meet these famous people via

Instagram email, well really by all means possible and imaginable and they replied to me some time later which usually they refuse any request for interviews of reporting meetings but in fact there they are going to do things linked to the Paris Olympic Games

And in this sense they accept what is still lunar thank you gios thank you Hidalgo for that and besides it is really a experience which concerns us all on a daily basis for example in relation

To our jein so it will really interest you in relation to all that in short we are at the end of the Japanese countryside I can’t wait to arrive we have a few minutes left you can see that

There is not much behind me except fields and farmers and so on and so on and besides that was also why I rented a car, it was a little more simple to be able to arrive at this famous place indigo you have undoubtedly already heard the

Name of this color without really knowing what it represented it is one of the oldest natural dyes used by man a deep blue of which the final nuances depend on the methods and the hands which took care of it it is extracted from the indigo plant a plant native to India which was

Already cultivated 4000 years before our era it would have been reported in Europe around the 16th century causing quite a few political problems Henry I even told dyers to use indigo under penalty of death, particularly because it competed with the pastel used in France

Since the Middle Ages for blue dyeing, in Japan indigo arrived more quickly around the 6th to the 7th century but we see it appearing almost everywhere especially at the time of the do for the manufacture

Of ink intended for engravings and painters fabrics dyed with indigo were for a long time intended for the people for clothing work because they were not expensive and durable and there were virtues like that of repelling insects and snakes so it is really part

Of the history of Japan and the Japanese I am a little lost I don’t know if I have the right to go there for example we will say yes eh we is between you and me it seems to me that it is here Boo

Welcome hello this mixed race this man is kakuo Kaji and it is thanks to him that the traditional dye of indigo is present in the village he won in 2015 a call for tender from the Japanese Ministry of Education to learn the profession of farmer specializing in indigo

Since he manages the Bouzou farm in which he employs around ten people around the cultivation and dyeing of indigo and the one who really helped me during my time at Bouzou is her, I’m the sung translator we’re going to do well we’re going no but it’s not it’s

Not contagious the thing it’s okay I hope yes no then my name is Miwa I am an intern at buiso how come you speak French which is very very very rare in Japan already found people who speak English it’s not easy for F from the countryside just like

In France in reality I studied French at university and there I met my husband who was French so I went to France VI in France love baguette cheese all that we love it always wins for 10 years I I live in France in the Pyrenees Pyrénées Atlantique

And I also do indigo dyeing there, that’s why you came for an internship here, that’s exactly because you have to say that in the end indigo is a real specialty from its country of origin

Japan in fact the color indigo was always as we call it Japan blue It was the color of the people at the time of the backs and therefore it has always remained our favorite color we will say Japan

Blue in our heart and can you also tell me more about the relationship that the Japanese have with artisans I find it super interesting and super inspiring there is even a term the living national treasure which represents artisans c it’s even you who also lives in France you

Must see a difference compared to that no it’s true that in Japan the artisan professions are much more respected we will say that in France of course in France there is the companionship which has a school with companions all that but in Japan they are how to say they

Each have their house their school each profession they have specific manners we will say very formal still today and which is very very respected and then at the same time hierarchical also hierarchical in the sense of transmission transmission of knowledge transmission of respect is what

You have on your hands therefore toxic it is dangerous or is it just no no it is not toxic it it’s not at all harmful even antibacterial what they say because in fact it’s bacteria which makes the blue pigment dissolve in the water so what we have on our hands in fact is

Not at all toxic ah yes I wanted to add just one thing which is that I even met people who do indigo dyeing who started indigo dyeing because they had a skin disease which feels treated with ah it’s is incredible there are real virtues in fact or yeah super interesting today indigo is

Present almost everywhere in the world and in large quantities its most common use being in the dye of Jean and if it is possible it is because since the end of the 19th century Adolf fber succeeded in synthesizing indigo we can therefore make it on a large scale for

Industrial production but this presents a major problem pollution the synthesis of indigo involves several consumables pollutants and can in particular contaminate the water in which it is released according to certain researchers on a global scale approximately 20% of industrial water pollution comes from the dyeing of fabrics this

Also shows the importance of preserving traditional know-how natural and more environmentally friendly青術術学 having blue hands sometimes in restaurants in real life and that doesn’t people look at you a little strangely but no one speaks to me directly with their hands OK

[Music] ok people will see that I M4 the Bouzou farm takes care of the whole process linked to the dyeing of indigo that means that he also cultivates the plant and so they took me to see the indigo fields and there they have already cut all the grains so there is a

Little left but there says that there is none because they have already cut it’s normal but well we can see a little that it’s blue so the rest of the leaves a little seed ok h so that’s the seeds for the dye for the pigment we need the leaves and the

Leaves are cut by machine what also means that today we can count on the fingers of one hand the number of farms related to indigo is it because companies prefer to do other things そう栽さ局る作る 島か indigo is mixed with several elements in a vat and that is where

The magic happens with the dyeing is done in the latter and at M bare either the clothes are soaked directly or it is the thread that to then sew the I or jackets for example different it is because when it dies the bath not because it draws all the pigment

It is that when there is a bad bacteria that enters the whole world [ Music] and even if kakuokaj is an extremely humble person you should know that the buzu woman is quite famous in the country but also in the ‘internationally they received the visit

Of stars that you surely know like Kenny West and Rihanna or even a certain neckfeu they take orders from big brands from all over the world but their philosophy remains the same the dyeing is done in respect of traditions it so there

Is no assembly line production and the pieces are almost all unique. Well, I just dressed in an atypical way, he’s hiding too kindly so that I too can dye my t-shirt in the end. I’m going to dye a t-shirt. and I’m going to show you the result hoping

It’s nice in any case I find it super interesting the subject I’m discussing with you today clearly as I get older I realize that obviously I still like traveling to see beautiful landscapes et cetera et cetera but I also like

To travel more and more to meet people and discover things that seem improbable to me incredible we dry first we dye we dry we dye we dry and at the end we wash h don’t just lose the glue all that you’re going yeah you leave it you leave it in the bath

Ok there you’re going to tighten it well you’re going to tighten it well it came out green from the pool and it’s in the process of changing color at first sight it’s super impressive I’m going to dip it another time to get an even

Darker color but in the end the process is really delicate you have to go slowly and try to mix in the end a little bit of the clothing in this case it’s a t-shirt as you could see so that the color spreads a little everywhere

In fact you really have to be patient it’s a job I think which requires ‘having this quality is in fact on all the parts of the process that I was able to explain to you before Well this is the maximum that I will have so I will have to wait a few days a week without a doubt so that all the blue is really going away I think people are going to take it a little for one when I go back to France with that to do to

Follow well she still told me that it would go away in 24 hours max it’s been a short week and we looks very strange in the streets of Saka because as much on the island of chikuku it is something traditional which is

Understood which is seen from time to time as much here it is strange that it is very strange after this day well busy we went to enjoy a nunon in a local restaurant it was a bit of an opportunity to see how to mix today the

Tradition and daily life in Japan as you have seen it is a country full of traditions which allows ancestral knowledge to persist over time and even if they are less and less numerous, indigo dyers are still present and active thanks to kakuo Kaji

And his team for opening the doors to their world to me I hope you enjoyed discovering it with me if so don’t hesitate to give me a thumbs up and give me a thumbs up follow because he still has a few videos on Japan coming and above all don’t forget to travel peace

J’ai exploré une partie du Japon où l’on peut croiser des personnes aux mains bleues. Un bleu sacré dans le pays appelé … Indigo.

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