Season
Season 6 Episode
- Season 4 Ground Detective Simon Wallis: Case 2 Soy Sauce
- Season 4 Fishing Crazy: Divine Duel at Sea
- Season 4 Close to ART: WATARI-UM - The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art
- Season 4 Through the Kitchen Window: Iga - Creating New Out of Old
- Season 4 A Treasured Creation: Today's Treasure - Ai, the Natural Indigo of Japan
- Season 4 A Treasured Creation: Today's Treasure - Keeping Barrel-brewed Soy Sauce Alive
- Season 4 Starting Over: Back to School Part 3
- Season 4 Starting Over: The Flight Goes On Part 3
- Season 4 Starting Over: Hotels Old and New Part 3
- Season 4 A Treasured Creation: Today's Treasure - Natural Ice Farmers
- Season 4 Fishing Crazy: Bonding With a Scaly Partner
- Season 4 NINJA TRUTH Episode 15: Ninja Communication
- Season 4 NINJA TRUTH Episode 16: The Fuma Ninja
- Season 4 Through the Kitchen Window: For the Love of Akigawa's Sweetfish
- Season 4 Ground Detective Simon Wallis: File #3 "The Case of the Udon Noodles"
- Season 4 A Treasured Creation: The Bond with Urushi, Japanese Lacquer
- Season 4 Fishing Crazy: Anglers in Wonderland
15 Minutes - Season 4 Episode 10 A Treasured Creation: Today's Treasure - Natural Ice Farmers
6.50 15 minutes At the foot of the Nikko mountains lives Yamamoto Yuichiro (age 70) and his son Jin-ichiro (45), who, without relying on any machines, produce the hardest natural ice in Japan. The season begins in late fall when they adjust the amount of spring water daily while waiting for cold weather. If the first centimeter freezes solid, then it will make fine ice. But if it doesn't, they will have to break it and start over. Yuichiro says, "Man can only do very little to nature. So the ice artisan's job is to just help the ice to grow without fighting nature." In December, they scrape snow to help the ice freeze and keep careful watch as it slowly grows until harvest time in 3 months. We take a close look at the efforts of these men who produce hard-to-melt ice in harmony with nature.
