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A Treasured Creation: Today's Treasure - Keeping Barrel-brewed Soy Sauce Alive
Yamamoto Yasuo (age 48),a 5th-generation soy sauce producer on Shodoshima Island in western Japan, started crafting wooden barrels himself. This was to preserve the traditional wooden barrel brewing method of soy sauce for the next generation. The body and flavor of soy sauce are imbued by microorganisms that inhabit the wooden barrels and breweries. However, due to industrialization, wooden barrel craftspeople have disappeared and usable wooden barrels could be lost in a few decades. Mr. Yamamoto started to reach out to fellow soy sauce brewers across Japan to encourage them to use his wooden barrels. "My job is not to make soy sauce. It is to connect our generation with the next. My ancestors have done the same." We'll take a close look at the Yamamoto and his unique way of having dual professions of crafting wooden barrels and brewing soy sauce.
Aired: Feb 24, 2021 Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 15m Rating: 0 Country: Japan Production: NHK
Episodes
01: Ground Detective Simon Wallis: Case 2 Soy Sauce02: Fishing Crazy: Divine Duel at Sea03: Close to ART: WATARI-UM - The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art04: Through the Kitchen Window: Iga - Creating New Out of Old05: A Treasured Creation: Today's Treasure - Ai, the Natural Indigo of Japan06: A Treasured Creation: Today's Treasure - Keeping Barrel-brewed Soy Sauce Alive07: Starting Over: Back to School Part 308: Starting Over: The Flight Goes On Part 309: Starting Over: Hotels Old and New Part 310: A Treasured Creation: Today's Treasure - Natural Ice Farmers11: Fishing Crazy: Bonding With a Scaly Partner12: NINJA TRUTH Episode 15: Ninja Communication13: NINJA TRUTH Episode 16: The Fuma Ninja14: Through the Kitchen Window: For the Love of Akigawa's Sweetfish15: Ground Detective Simon Wallis: File #3 "The Case of the Udon Noodles"16: A Treasured Creation: The Bond with Urushi, Japanese Lacquer17: Fishing Crazy: Anglers in Wonderland