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 16 A Treasured Creation: The Bond with Urushi, Japanese Lacquer
6.50 15 minutes Japan's world-famous lacquerware is prized for its versatility, beauty and shine, which is due to the varnish made from the sap of Urushi trees. This sap is harvested by hand in small amounts through a meticulous process of scraping and cutting. Tobita Yuzo (86) carries on a lifelong pledge of brotherhood to the Urushi trees as one of the last few remaining harvesters. To make sure this legacy continues, Tobita plants thousands of new trees in the hopes of making a forest full of Urushi.
