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Various close ups of different containers and trays made by bending thinly planed strips of Japanese Cypress or Cedar wood. The craft is known as Hakata Magemono. Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine 16th June 2009 2....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eHakata City,16th June 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Various close ups of different containers and trays made by bending thinly planed strips of Japanese Cypress or Cedar wood. The craft is known as Hakata Magemono. \u003cbr/\u003eHakozaki Hachiman Shrine 16th June 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide shot Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine.\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid shot tourists at  Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine.\u003cbr/\u003eHakata City,16th June 2009\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yamada Hiroaki Hakata Machiya Folk Museum curator:\u003cbr/\u003e\"In the east of Hakata there is a shrine called Hakozaki Hachiman Jinja.  Traditionally trays and containers made by bending wood were used to carry offerings to the gods of this shrine.  Gradually the custom spread to domestic religious practice conducted in ordinary households, and from there the wooden containers were incorporated into general household use.  This is how the craft developed.\"   \u003cbr/\u003eFukuoka 15th June 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up of hands on containers used to hold rice known as ohitsu. \u003cbr/\u003e6. Pull out and pan to Mid of woman taking ohitsu (container) from shelf in kitchen.\u003cbr/\u003e7. Close up of woman's hands filling ohitsu (container) with rice.\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of eel filets being grilled (specialty of the restaurant and region.) \u003cbr/\u003e9. Close up and zoom in on diners tray and hands spooning food from ohitsu (wooden rice container).  \u003cbr/\u003e10.Close up of detail on ohitsu (container). \u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid shot Japanese diners eating from trays containing ohitsu (containers).\u003cbr/\u003eHakata 16th June 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e12.SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yamada Hiroaki, Hakata Machiya Folk Museum curator: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Before WWII there were around 20 businesses producing Hakata Magemono in the area.  During the post war period economic development meant the use of electrical goods (like rice cookers) and plastic containers spread.  Household use of wooden containers declined.  As the market for these goods declined so did the number of artisans involved in the craft.  Now there are only two left.\" \u003cbr/\u003eHakata City,  16th June 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e13. Close up of hands separating strips of planed Cypress wood. \u003cbr/\u003e14. Close up of wood being sawn to length. \u003cbr/\u003e15. Close up of Japanese hand plane being adjusted by hand. \u003cbr/\u003e16. Various Close ups of Shibata Tamaki thinning the ends of the strips of wood cross grain using a hand plane. \u003cbr/\u003e17. Various of Shibata Tamaki binding a wooden rice container with strips of cherry bark. \u003cbr/\u003eHakata 16th June 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e18. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Yamada Hiroaki, Hakata Machiya Folk Museum curator: \u003cbr/\u003e\"In families of craftsman in general it is a male heir who succeeds from one generation to the next.  Women do not normally become artisans. But Shibata San had helped her father since childhood. When he died, with the approval of her family, who acknowledged the quality of her work, she became Hakata's first recognised female magemono artisan.\" \u003cbr/\u003eHakata City,16th June 2009 \u003cbr/\u003e19. Wide shot of Shibata Tamaki placing strips of Cyprus wood in a kiln heated vat\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close up of wood in vat.\u003cbr/\u003e21. Mid shot and pan of Shibata Tamaki and assistant removing a strip of wood by hand from hot vat and rolling and shaping it and clamping it.\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various of Shibata Tamaki shaping the bowl.\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shibata Tamaki, 18th generation magemonoshi wood bending artisan of the Shibata family. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I helped in the workshop from the age of about fourteen. I had to.\" \u003cbr/\u003e24. Still photograph, Shibata Tamaki's Great Grandfather, Shibata Shokichi 15th generation craftsman to head the Shibata family business.  \u003cbr/\u003e25. Still photograph, Shibata San's father, 17th generation craftsman also called Shibata Tamaki.  \u003cbr/\u003e26. Zoom in on Shibata Tamaki (frame right) and her younger brother.  Grandmother in background. Photo taken in1963. \u003cbr/\u003e27. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shibata Tamaki,18th generation magemonoshi wood bending artisan of the Shibata family:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So I decided that if they wouldn't accept me as the artisan to lead the family because I was a woman, the only thing I could do was to get them to look at my work and for them to judge me on its merit. So that's what I did.\" \u003cbr/\u003e28. Various of Shibata Tamaki painting the lid of a containter. \u003cbr/\u003e29. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Shibata Tamaki,18th generation magemonoshi wood bending artisan of the Shibata family. \u003cbr/\u003e\"My son has made up his mind that he will take over from me.  So he has begun to help in the workshop.  Of course he still has a long way to go yet, but step by step he is gradually learning the craft.  Over time I think he will become a splendid craftsman.\" \u003cbr/\u003e30. Mid shot of workshop, pan to Shibata Tamaki working (painting lid).\u003cbr/\u003eA woman in Japan is keeping alive a traditional male woodcraft that has been in her family for eighteen generations. \u003cbr/\u003eShibata Tamaki is one of only two remaining artisans in the city of Hakata still practising the city's historic craft of Hakata Magemono. \u003cbr/\u003eBut following in her father's footsteps has not always been easy.\u003cbr/\u003eHakata Magemono woodcraft is said to be 1,200 years old. \u003cbr/\u003eIt is thought that the craft originated from Hakata's Hakozaki Hachiman Shrine. \u003cbr/\u003eYamada Hiroaki, curator of the Hakata Machiya folk museum, explains that trays and containers, made by bending thinly planed strips of Japanese cypress and cedar wood into shape (a process known as Magemono), were first used to carry offerings to the Gods of the shrine.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe custom spread to domestic religious practice before eventually being  incorporated into everyday household use. \u003cbr/\u003eOne particularly common way in which the wooden boxes are used is as ohitsu, containers to hold rice. \u003cbr/\u003eSome Japanese households and restaurants continue to use ohitsu. \u003cbr/\u003eMass production, and the introduction of plastic and electrical goods, has led to the gradual decline of the custom. \u003cbr/\u003eMost Japanese families now tend to serve rice straight from electric rice cookers into ceramic bowls rather than taking individual servings from a communal container placed on the dining table. \u003cbr/\u003eAs the market for rice and other containers declined so did the number of craftsman skilled in the art. \u003cbr/\u003eYamada explains that there are now only two artisans left in the city making Hakata Magemono.\u003cbr/\u003eJapan's crafts, with a few exceptions, have traditionally been a male preserve. \u003cbr/\u003eWomen, when involved in the craft, would support an artisan rather than become recognised as artisans themselves. \u003cbr/\u003eShibata Tamaki represents the 18th generation of her family to become a magemono (wood bending) artisan and as Yamada explains, she is the first woman to be recognised as an artisan in the history of the craft.  \u003cbr/\u003eAs she explains, she began helping her father in his workshop at the age of 14. \u003cbr/\u003eShe continued to work with him through high school and university. \u003cbr/\u003eBut it wasn't until she was in her mid twenties that she decided that she would like to head the family business. \u003cbr/\u003eIn accordance with tradition, however, Shibata's father wanted her younger brother to be his heir.\u003cbr/\u003eWhen her younger brother declared his intention not to follow in his father's footsteps Shibata Tamaki openly declared her desire to become an artisan. \u003cbr/\u003eThe result was a blazing row. \u003cbr/\u003eHer father took the position that a woman's place was in the home, that her younger brother had to succeed him, and that Tamaki couldn't possibly become the next artisan to represent the Shibata line. \u003cbr/\u003eAlthough Shibata Tamaki continued to work with her father until he died in 1996, and her younger brother pursued a successful career in a Japanese corporation, her father's position never changed. \u003cbr/\u003eAt the time of her father's death, nor had the position of her relatives. \u003cbr/\u003eAs she explains, Shibata decided that the only way that she could persuade her relatives to change their position was if they judged her on the quality of her work. \u003cbr/\u003eAfter one of the ceremonies that takes place during a Japanese funeral it is customary to give attendants a parting gift. \u003cbr/\u003eSo Shibata made magemono containers for all her relatives who attended her father's funeral. \u003cbr/\u003eThe result was that after an apprenticeship that spanned over 20 years she finally gained the approval of her family to represent the Shibata family line.  \u003cbr/\u003eNow 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