0:11

Hi everybody they around here and

0:13

I'm going to warn you right

0:15

now. this. This. Interview

0:18

that I'm doing. Is. Gonna

0:20

be a conversation with a

0:22

guy. Have known from getting

0:24

more years than you can

0:26

imagine. A in many

0:28

different roles. And.

0:30

Ah, so it may go a little

0:32

bit longer than usual on an uncle

0:34

seat. Because we have lots

0:37

of things to talk about cabbages and kings

0:39

or use the champ term capital gains. By

0:41

the way, it somebody didn't know what that

0:43

was and they had it. look it up.

0:45

And with the oh Alice in Wonderland oh

0:47

that's right, we should talk and capital gains

0:49

it may range all around there. But the

0:51

one of the reasons I'm sharing this is

0:53

their. Stephen I don't

0:55

each other for years, but what he's involved

0:57

in right now, the ways involved in it,

0:59

or what he's doing, I think it's so

1:02

significant. Is also a

1:04

serious Gp dear. we can talk to

1:06

any be folks about that new know

1:08

what could you to deem relatives and

1:10

and and methodology So let me back

1:13

uploaded Okay so this is Steven by

1:15

now. And Stephen is

1:17

trash. I've known ancient would I

1:19

guess we don't each other for

1:21

what? Forty years? Thirty Thirty Five

1:24

years? Whatever. I have to tell

1:26

you. Steal Ice. Nineteen Seventy Four.

1:29

Cents. Or the next forty eight

1:31

years. Wow.

1:35

You know, we don't don't even know people. forty

1:37

eight years old. And. So

1:41

it's been located. and you know, Stephen

1:44

I met through mutual interest in our

1:46

spiritual affairs. Know. That we were involved

1:48

in. Ah, Steve.

1:50

Actually was my boss of one of my

1:52

thirty five level jobs I had by the

1:54

time lose thirty five. and

1:57

one a dust bosses i didn't

1:59

ever Anyway,

2:03

Steve can tell you more about that perhaps. So

2:06

I've known Steve for a long time. He is

2:08

a serious Japanophile, as he will tell you, as

2:10

Catherine and I both are. And Steve

2:13

has taken us on several

2:15

tours, just personally, in

2:17

Japan. Because he can

2:20

also tell you totally fluent

2:22

in Japanese. And sorry,

2:24

lost the bug here. And married to a

2:26

Japanese lady and been there for many, many

2:28

years. And he's a ton

2:31

of some of the most coolest,

2:34

swamalist stuff

2:36

going on in Japan. Particularly

2:38

to craft the architecture, to art, etc.

2:42

So anyway,

2:44

that will all be topic discussion.

2:46

So Steve, what

2:48

would you like people to know who are

2:50

watching this? And this is obviously, you know,

2:53

primarily, initially anyway, a

2:55

crowd that knows GTV, knows me, know the

2:58

getting things done process. But it also is

3:00

likely to be spread out just

3:02

in more of the general public. So given

3:05

that intro, go

3:08

ahead, Mr. Bynum. I

3:12

think I'd like to, well, hello, everybody.

3:15

I think I'd like to,

3:17

sorry, I would like to

3:19

express about GTV. And

3:23

then I would like to tell you about what I'm involved

3:25

with. Because I feel that

3:31

my intention is to do

3:33

something that will benefit

3:35

everybody. That to

3:37

work towards something that will benefit

3:40

everyone. Like many of us are doing things

3:42

to benefit people. What I'm doing, I

3:45

feel, is it could be something

3:48

that not only the people of

3:50

Japan, but the people around the world, all

3:52

people. So

3:54

if I could just start with, you know,

3:57

have a long history of very.

4:01

intense history with GTD and I

4:03

started at the very beginning, probably,

4:08

I probably started practicing

4:10

and studying GT about the time

4:12

you started studying it. In

4:18

some of those early courses that we

4:20

both took. And I

4:23

must say that GTD

4:27

is something that knowing

4:31

my personality, knowing my makeup, I

4:33

would say that I have 100 times

4:36

more energy and

4:38

ideas than I have the

4:41

wherewithal to put into action.

4:44

And this is something

4:47

that many entrepreneurs have. And

4:50

GTD has allowed me

4:53

not only to be sane with all

4:55

this, but to move

4:57

forward with it in a really

4:59

uplifting and uplifting

5:03

way that just allowed me to

5:05

create things, to have

5:07

experiences that I could

5:09

never have had, to be

5:12

involved in several successful

5:14

businesses and now

5:16

in what's becoming

5:21

a life passion work that I'm doing.

5:24

So for all

5:26

of you who have any struggles with GTD,

5:28

with your process, I

5:38

hear you and I

5:40

also know

5:42

nothing else on the planet that

5:46

brings people to this level of

5:49

clarity than GTD. So I'm

5:52

probably your oldest client,

5:56

not in terms of age, but in terms of

5:58

years. Spin. It

6:01

because. Of my my arm. This.

6:04

Explanation for this propensity to be

6:06

very very over over the creative and

6:09

so many areas it's it's really been

6:11

a light sleeper cell. Thank you David

6:13

Allen, I caught you every day every

6:16

day. Just a let's back up a

6:18

little bit of their a little bit

6:20

more than one been named ordinariness. Just

6:23

a terms of a chronology of

6:25

color, how you got to where you

6:27

are. So. You'd start with by

6:29

what com born sister cook for and

6:32

then and then and then and then.

6:34

So. Well I like our

6:36

of do a fast forward version

6:38

and so on. I

6:41

went to Japan when I was

6:43

right out of college. In

6:45

the there for four years they came back ness when

6:47

I go for some a why Why did you go

6:49

to Japan right after college? I am. Well.

6:52

I I. I was in

6:54

search of room to censor. and

6:57

went to from wanted to travel the world. And.

7:00

Dot forgot to Japan and and I

7:02

should. What? Are you

7:04

want to go home little little to other

7:06

countries? This place is exactly what I was

7:08

looking for. It's a seems to have. It

7:11

from that day on. To

7:13

this day it's it seems to be the

7:15

answer. something inside of me that. This

7:19

is this is the for someone to be. This for someone to

7:21

live. In.

7:26

A man with then I worked there for

7:28

years and went back and I just try

7:30

I learn Japanese wants to Japan during that

7:32

for your period and then I got a

7:34

job. With. Some.

7:38

Japanese. People who they were,

7:41

Immigrants to America. And

7:43

at that point where I answered

7:46

would where I met them did

7:48

just that. They have the when

7:50

the nursery. This is a plant

7:52

nursery business interesting with your see

7:54

growers. That quite a

7:57

large on. Out it. it

7:59

it and

9:06

so he i mean as long as you

9:08

want so he became a salesman are you

9:11

know i know for me to b i

9:13

became the general manager of this company i

9:15

knew nothing about the nursery business and i

9:17

invited david to be a salesman it's a

9:19

nursery salesman and he had no idea glad

9:21

i'm time

10:00

together. I have to have to have to do it on a side

10:02

bar. I started the job. I

10:05

got use of your little Dodson

10:07

truck. He had a truck.

10:09

The truck was great because I would,

10:12

I don't know how many days a week,

10:14

two or three days a week, I would

10:16

travel around to all the local nurseries in

10:19

Southern California with the back filled with flaps

10:21

of samples of the ground cover that

10:23

Mitsuha Nursery was selling. And

10:26

I thought, what a cool thing. So,

10:29

you know, I, it was one of my more

10:31

enjoyable of my 35 jobs. And

10:37

I needed transportation then too. And I said, I needed

10:39

an income. So, you know, one thing

10:41

I took anybody. A couple of guys in there,

10:44

which one is trying to figure out what they wanted to

10:46

do with their lives. And it was the perfect thing that

10:48

came along for both of us. Okay.

10:51

And then, and

10:54

then, okay, then I

10:56

went back to King. I was at the nursery

10:58

for a while. I came back to Japan. I

11:01

got involved with a lot of things.

11:03

I studied translation, Japanese,

11:06

English translation, pretty

11:08

seriously. Then I got married

11:11

and went back to the States. And then I became

11:13

a partner in the nursery and it really took off.

11:15

We just, by 1992, we had 85 employees and

11:18

it was

11:20

pretty amazing

11:26

operation, shipping all over the state.

11:30

And, but I was, all

11:32

that time I was pining to come back to Japan.

11:35

I just, I was just pining. So I made

11:38

a big shift in my employment. I

11:40

quit. I

11:49

quit being a

11:51

partner in this company. I mean, I'm still a

11:53

partner, but I quit being a managing partner and

11:56

I created a tour company, a

11:59

tour company. of taking people to

12:01

Japan. And that

12:03

is called, it was called a

12:05

free travel and from 1992 started

12:08

with four people. And within a

12:11

year and a half, within a

12:14

year I had something like eight

12:16

tours going and it was, and it just

12:18

kept going, growing and growing and growing. And

12:20

I did that until as

12:23

a CEO until 2005 and

12:26

then got burnt out from

12:28

that. Just 75 hour weeks. And

12:32

then I retired, but

12:34

became, I still

12:36

supported free

12:39

travel. I still worked for a spree

12:41

as a kind of a back office

12:43

person and creating tours

12:45

and things like that. And

12:48

then I retired again about from that

12:50

about four years ago. And I started

12:52

an organization

12:54

called Japan Craft 21. Well,

12:57

back up one second, Steve, I'll let you keep

12:59

on with that thread, but let me back up

13:01

and do a quick little re-line. You

13:04

were doing tours, what

13:06

was so elegant was the nature of your tours.

13:09

I mean, the University of Chicago used

13:11

you for architecture and the Smithsonian Institute

13:13

used you for, I don't know, whatever.

13:15

So you might want to let people

13:17

know what was your area of focus

13:19

and interest and why you became probably

13:21

the best in the world of

13:24

doing tours about what in Japan?

13:28

Well, a spree travel was and is

13:30

a company

13:33

which specializes in giving

13:36

people really an in-depth experience in

13:39

Japan. And so up until

13:41

that time, basically, just

13:45

about all the tour companies, it may have been one

13:47

or two, but just about all tour companies were

13:50

located in the States and they

13:52

would have an onshore ground operator

13:57

take care of everything. And, So

14:00

at one point you can

14:02

look at every company's itinerary for

14:06

Japan and they were almost identical.

14:08

You know, the day order might be

14:10

different and the day the order during

14:13

the day where people would visit would be different but it was

14:15

all the same and we just we

14:18

became a ground operator in Japan. So

14:21

every meal, every

14:24

segment of the tour, every hotel,

14:26

we checked out everything we organized

14:30

it and reserved it ourselves so

14:32

we had control over that. But

14:34

more importantly was the experience. The

14:38

experience has always been the most important

14:40

thing that people will come here and

14:43

I just wanted people to say that this was

14:45

the best tour that they've ever taken in their

14:47

life and I'm still to this day I'm getting

14:49

letters from people from the 1990s

14:53

and people come on my come on

14:55

my presentations I gave for Japan Craft 21

14:57

who I've been seeing in 30 years and

15:00

they're still they're still recalling those trips from

15:02

the 90s and the 2000s. Yes, beautiful, beautiful.

15:04

So one

15:09

of the things that we specialized

15:11

in was giving people really

15:13

authentic experiences with the crafts

15:16

of Japan and what's

15:19

so special about the crafts of Japan well

15:21

that's I have a little bit of a

15:23

presentation plan for you so maybe by the

15:25

end of that you'll

15:27

know that this is this country this

15:32

country is probably

15:34

like no other country in the world

15:37

there's so in terms of crafts

15:40

the breadth the depth and

15:43

the degree of

15:46

craftsmanship of master craftsmanship

15:48

is so huge here

15:50

that one

15:52

of the slides I'll be showing you shows a scale

15:55

and I made this I made this little diver of

15:58

a script scale and I put all the

18:01

aspect of sort of the Zen aesthetic,

18:04

which wasn't always there. Steve

18:06

gave a presentation, a lovely presentation I

18:08

saw not long ago about the history

18:10

of that. So that, I

18:12

say it wasn't always there, but it was been there since the 15th or

18:14

16th or 17th century

18:17

in terms of how that affected everything. But

18:19

that's long enough, certainly to

18:21

have been generated what Steve was talking about.

18:24

Anything to say about that, Steve, before we? Oh,

18:27

do I ever, are you kidding? This

18:32

is totally unsolicited. So all of you

18:35

out there listening, this

18:37

is totally unsolicited that GTD,

18:43

I have studied Zen and I

18:45

have practiced Zen. And I've

18:48

been interpreters for Zen Roshi in

18:50

Zen's session for foreigners.

18:53

And I taught,

18:55

one of my

18:58

other profession, my

19:03

other hobbies is I'm a very,

19:05

very part-time coach of

19:08

GTD principles to friends. And

19:11

one of my clients, one of

19:14

my friend clients was a Zen master, a young

19:16

Zen master. And

19:19

he's been in training for years. Young

19:22

Zen priests, but, and the

19:25

combination of teaching him GTD

19:28

principles of just keeping his head

19:31

clear and free-form

19:33

writing, he actually improved

19:36

his meditation. So

19:39

here, and so I always

19:41

considered GTD to be, I

19:47

always referred to as secular Zen because

19:50

I don't see any difference. And I know

19:52

the experience that I have from

19:55

having a clear head is that's

19:58

a pure Zen experience. And

20:01

I love interesting just to that side point if

20:03

I haven't talked to any of you this you

20:06

know at one point Jim

20:08

Kim at the time was

20:10

the head of the World Bank he brought me

20:12

in to do some coaching with him and he

20:14

he he confessed that that his mom had turned

20:16

him on to my book getting things done his

20:18

mom teaches at the University of

20:20

Idaho or somewhere I believe they're uh

20:24

comparative religion then theology

20:26

or whatever and she gave him my book

20:28

and said gee uh Jim this is practical

20:30

zen and he

20:33

had to you know he was he ran the

20:35

World Health Organization and then was at the Dartmouth

20:37

College and then he he said every time he

20:39

changed jobs he had to go reread my book

20:41

so he could get him onto

20:43

whatever the next level of game that he was at

20:46

and uh Jim was a great guy

20:48

I don't think he reminds me me

20:50

to say this and uh practicing

20:53

and uh as a practitioner we

20:56

think so he we created time for him to be

20:58

able to sit you know uh even

21:01

at his office at the World Bank so

21:04

yeah to your point yeah I

21:06

know that's an unsolicited promotion

21:09

but yeah okay

21:12

okay uh Steve let's let's take a second and

21:15

let you share your screen and show people an

21:17

idea of kind of what you're involved in right

21:19

now because I would love for everybody to know

21:21

about this as well so

21:24

last year at our

21:26

first Japan Craft 21 awards

21:28

bank award ceremony in

21:31

banquet one

21:33

of the people who was who was instrumental

21:35

in getting us but

21:38

one of the people instrumental in getting us going

21:40

was I said in his openings talk he

21:43

said Steve he

21:45

said this very slowly and distinctly

21:47

Steve you were starting a movement

21:49

you're building a movement

21:52

and I and I never thought about that I was

21:55

building a movement but um actually

22:00

In order to revitalize

22:04

a tradition that is many

22:07

millennia old, I

22:10

realize that you have

22:12

to start a movement because it just can't

22:14

happen any other way. So I just want

22:17

to go over a few things with you.

22:19

Japan's historic accomplishments, where Japan stands

22:21

now in terms of its craft tradition, the

22:23

causes for the decline and the way

22:26

we are making a difference. So

22:32

we started Japan Crafts 21, four years ago. And

22:36

basically we have a number of projects.

22:38

One is we teach

22:41

joinery, our

22:43

carpentry joinery to young carpenters. We

22:47

started a little school in Kyoto, so

22:49

they could build things like this without nails. We

22:53

were teaching how

22:55

to make bamboo mud walls

22:58

to young working plasters so

23:01

they can build walls like this, walls that breathe, walls

23:06

that never need to be repainted. And

23:10

then we started a program where

23:13

a young

23:17

journey person,

23:19

journeyman, a dyer is

23:21

being taught absolute

23:24

rarified, massed dying

23:28

techniques from great masters who are

23:31

basically retiring. To

23:34

do things like this, this is one of the

23:36

most complex dying and weaving

23:39

processes on the planet. Only

23:41

one person knows how to do this.

23:44

And we are teaching this young person,

23:46

this young journey person how to do this. So

23:50

we started our contest and we

23:52

have as our judges, some

23:56

of the most extraordinary people in the world. David knows the

23:58

person who is the best at this. on the right,

24:00

he's the person who designed

24:03

the washi paper for an architectural installation he

24:05

had in his office in the States. The

24:07

person in the middle is

24:10

the founder of Nuno,

24:12

one of the most influential,

24:16

successful textile designers in the world.

24:20

The first, second to the left,

24:22

he's the person who helped build

24:24

Naoshima, which is in

24:27

terms of an art space,

24:30

it's probably the most successful art

24:32

space in the planet, contemporary art.

24:35

So we have great volunteer judges for

24:37

our contest. We hooked

24:39

up with the Asian Society in Japan. Rockefeller's

24:42

Asian Society has 10 branches

24:44

around the world and they are

24:46

one of our co-sponsors for our

24:48

contest. Last

24:51

year we awarded

24:54

10 people, we

24:56

chose 10 people in our

24:58

contest, 10 extraordinary young craftspeople.

25:04

And each of them, the

25:06

bottom line for the contest is we are

25:10

looking for an idea, the best idea to

25:12

revitalize a craft for the 21st century. 10

25:15

people have 10 great ideas and

25:18

we support them with project funding.

25:23

So I asked myself, what is Japan's best

25:26

kept secret? I asked

25:28

myself this 15, 15,

25:30

one years ago when I first came here, I

25:32

still ask it now and Japan's best kept secret

25:35

is Japan. Nobody

25:38

knows about Japan. People

25:41

know a little about sushi, a little about sumo, a little

25:43

about this and that. This

25:45

place is the bottomless

25:47

pit of extraordinary culture and

25:50

information. And to this

25:52

day, I can't figure out why people don't

25:54

know even a fraction

25:58

of what's going on here. So

26:02

to give you just a little taste of this, Japanese

26:05

have been making ceramics since

26:07

13,000 BC. See

26:10

all the ceramics culture in the world. Maybe

26:12

China is in there someplace. So this piece

26:15

was made 5,000 BC. And

26:18

not only was this piece made,

26:20

but hundreds, thousands of pieces like

26:22

this, and they're all completely original

26:24

and different. They've

26:26

been making baskets since 7,000 BC. And

26:31

that basket, if you move forward to

26:33

the 21st century, they're making

26:36

baskets like this. And

26:38

recently, Chikung-Sai has been

26:40

doing basket installations in

26:45

buildings all over the world. Black

26:48

or where? 7,000 BC. Move

26:51

forward 7, 80, 600 years,

26:57

and you see absolute masterpieces

26:59

in lacquer using

27:01

gold, using silver,

27:05

inlaid mother of pearl. And

27:10

21st century, it still continues on with

27:12

mother of pearl and gold in lacquer.

27:15

And lacquer is not something you get at a

27:17

Home Depot. Lacquer is a

27:20

sap that comes from a tree similar

27:22

to maple syrup. It's probably the most

27:24

difficult material to work with. And

27:29

it's highly allergenic. It comes from

27:31

the poisexumac tree. So

27:34

it's not an easy thing

27:36

to work with. Before

27:40

silk, before cotton, before any of

27:42

those fibers, Japanese

27:46

were weaving from bark, from

27:49

linden trees, from elm trees, from

27:52

banana leaves. And

27:55

now you can see banana leaves,

27:57

banana fiber leaves still as a

27:59

weaver. material

28:01

from Okinawa. The

28:04

33, excuse me, 300 BC was the bronze age in Japan.

28:11

Moving forward to the early

28:13

modern period in the late 1800s,

28:16

the Japanese were making extraordinary bronze

28:19

art and sending them around the

28:21

world and just blowing everyone's minds

28:23

with their ingenuity and

28:25

their creativity. And then

28:27

today the work of Kanyasuda, one

28:30

of the greatest sculptors in the world. His

28:33

work is all over the world in this

28:35

large bronze works. Ceramics,

28:41

ceramics, the

28:43

ceramics I showed you a second ago were

28:45

made, they were earthenware,

28:49

stoneware, which is very durable, which lasts

28:51

a long time, which can be moved

28:54

easily. Didn't come in until about the 400 AD

28:58

when Japan imported the Korean

29:00

tunnel kiln and started

29:02

making works like this. And

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we go forward to the 21st century

29:07

and using the same methodology,

29:10

exactly the same methodology people are

29:12

creating, works of

29:14

fine craft like this. Silk

29:20

came to Japan about

29:22

the 400s from Korea. The

29:25

Silk Road brought many

29:28

very fascinating pieces, works

29:31

of silk from Western China through

29:33

China to Japan. And

29:36

then in the 20th century, the early 20th century, a

29:40

company, an individual actually

29:43

figured out how to weave these

29:46

items that no one had seen since the

29:48

700s that were in museums, reinvented

29:52

the loom that hadn't been seen in 1200

29:54

years and were able to introduce

29:57

all those patterns back into its

29:59

culture. So now there are

30:01

dozens and dozens of these patterns

30:03

which have been lost and now

30:06

they have been restored. Kimono

30:09

for a thousand years has been the hot

30:13

kotur item. These

30:18

are all almost one of, most of them are one

30:20

of a kind or very, very few of a kind.

30:23

That type of hot kotur has been available

30:25

to the Japanese public for a thousand

30:27

years. And then this kind

30:30

of weaving goes on to this day. Indigo

30:33

dyeing came in 1300 years ago and

30:36

it's still made in

30:38

the same way. It's the most color

30:40

fast, most natural,

30:43

most authentic dye process in the

30:45

world. And then in the 20th,

30:47

21st century, you see

30:49

artists making tea rooms, dying hemp and

30:52

making tea rooms of the same ancient

30:55

methodology. This

30:57

is what a sword looked like in the 600s.

31:01

And in the 12 and 1300s, which

31:03

is the golden age of the Japanese

31:05

sword, Japanese were making

31:08

steel that in the history of

31:10

the world has never been equal to this day.

31:15

And nowadays you see that steel in

31:17

culinary knives. Buddha's

31:20

Statuary came in the 600s

31:22

from China, from Korea. By

31:26

the 1200s, Japan, Buddha's

31:28

Statuary had its golden age in Japan

31:32

and it's still being made today. Architecture,

31:37

building much of this came from

31:40

China, but the Japanese took all

31:42

of those techniques and all the

31:44

styles and completely Japan-sized them. But

31:47

it's testament to the

31:49

great strength and

31:54

methodology and culture of

31:56

this architecture. This

31:59

is this building. is this whole complex is 1300

32:02

years old. It's made out of wood. There are

32:04

no nails in this, and it's still standing today.

32:07

So in fact, this Beodouin from the

32:09

1100s, from

32:14

Nanzenji in

32:16

Eastern Kyoto. Washi

32:19

is one of the world's

32:22

finest papers. And you'll

32:25

see there are hundreds

32:27

of Japanese paper, different textures,

32:29

thicknesses, colors, styles, made

32:31

by hand, all of this is a completely

32:34

sustainable press

32:39

form. And we

32:41

see nowadays the

32:43

work of Eri Kohori-ki who David

32:46

had the wit to

32:48

have commissioned

32:50

for his offices. This is just

32:53

natural paper made from mulberry bark

32:55

and water. And

32:59

the work of Sarah Breyer who's lived all her

33:01

life in her

33:03

adult life in Japan. She makes

33:05

functional work using Washi. The

33:12

t-ball by this t-ball

33:14

was the first

33:16

real wabi-sabi style

33:19

of of teaware, which came in in

33:21

the late 1500s.

33:26

This potter was inspired

33:29

in the beginning of the

33:31

golden age of Japanese tea ceremony.

33:34

And 15 generations later

33:36

in the same family, the

33:38

same line, this is what

33:41

his descendant is

33:43

making when using the same

33:45

materials, in the same kiln,

33:47

the same everything. This

33:50

kind of very

33:53

contemporary 20th century looking work is

33:55

from the early 1600s. this

34:01

spontaneity and freedom of expression

34:03

that we see in this

34:05

this t-ball. And

34:07

then we see in the warmth of hagi-ware, originally

34:11

inspired by Korean kilns in

34:13

the 1500s. And

34:15

then in the 20th century the work

34:18

of Shoji Hamada with

34:21

all this in the moment spirit

34:24

of expression. He would take a ladle

34:27

and he would just throw the glaze

34:29

in these wonderful patterns one after another.

34:33

We're looking at the there are

34:35

more potters in Japan today than there

34:37

are in the entire world put together.

34:42

And this work by Kondo Takahiro from

34:45

the Metropolitan in New York is

34:48

just this tradition keeps going on and

34:50

the work of of Kitamura

34:53

Junko, her work is outstanding,

34:55

all contemporary. The

35:01

Edo period in Japan was the 16,

35:03

17, 1800s was a time when all

35:05

those wars that you saw in those

35:08

samurai movies, all those wars

35:10

were over and the

35:13

Japanese turned all the feudal

35:15

lords turned their their military

35:17

efforts into creating the

35:19

greatest cottage industry that the

35:21

world has ever seen. And

35:24

this is one of the products this

35:26

is made by taking gold leaf, silver

35:29

leaf and applying it to

35:31

washi paper in patterns and

35:34

cutting it about

35:36

120 eighths of an inch thick

35:38

and weaving it into silk. So

35:41

half of this is paper, half of this is

35:43

silk. The

35:47

porcelain became very popular from the

35:49

1600s on and so here's a

35:51

here's a piece using over

35:54

glazing glaze enamels and this is

35:56

where the advanced to

35:58

in the 21st century, the

36:01

work of a living national treasure in Japan. His

36:04

colors have never been seen before,

36:07

this level of glaze.

36:11

Food presentation from the 1600s into the 1700s, the

36:14

food presentation we see

36:21

in every Shishi restaurant around the

36:23

world comes from Japan. It just

36:25

all came from there, where 50%

36:28

of the meal is how beautifully it's presented.

36:31

Glass came in in the 1700s and today we see

36:35

some of the greatest glass makers in the

36:37

world. So

36:40

what happened? What

36:44

happened here? You