Believe it or not, this isn’t glassware. It’s edible. This is amezaiku, the traditional Japanese craft. Delicate sculptures, usually of animals, birds, and fish, are molded out of sugar. This is how Japanese candy art is made. Artist Shinri Tezuka is one of the few people left in Japan who practice amezaiku. He is based at Asakusa Amezaiku Ameshin in the Taito City area of Tokyo. The base of the artwork is a starchy syrup, which is heated to 90 degrees Celsius, almost 200 degrees Fahrenheit, and requires careful monitoring to ensure proper consistency. The mixture is extracted,
then kneaded by hand. A small section is selected and pinched into a spherical shape. Artists do this using their bare hands, which is a skill in itself. The syrup is mounted on a stick, then formed into a shape by constant pulling and clipping. The final shape is painted with food dye using delicate brushes. Speed is important, as the candy must be
molded before it sets. A goldfish like this takes
five minutes to sculpt and up to 10 minutes to paint. At 30 years old, Tezuka is one of the youngest practitioners. Amezaiku is said to have started during the Heian period
in the eighth century. Sugar was traditionally spun into shapes for offerings at temples in Kyoto. It became a street performance during the Edo period, which lasted from the 17th century to the 19th century, as its base starch ingredient, mizumae, or water candy, became more popular. Today, few professional
amezaiku craftspeople exist in Japan. Asakusa Amezaiku Ameshin have two shops in Tokyo.
how does he hold on to molten sugar for so long with bare hands? 0_0
In the US we need more art forms like this!!
Animals, birds and fish…
This tradition needs to be kept alive. It's so beautiful!
Birds and fish are animals…
Encase the candies in Resin and it will last forever.
When it’s melted it looks like slime
Btw I’m a small slime ytber
He plays with his food 🤣
Seems dumb to me.
Just beautiful
Art in food is not art! It simply those not or will not hold an artistic value to it simply because all food are perishable! So this is a waste of time and not needed
Touching 200 f a skill? I think that they just burned all their nerve endings off after so many times
“Animals, birds, and fish.”
So you’re saying birds and fish aren’t animals?
I would eat that candy art almost purely out of respect for the other 50% of its purpose.
Training for Glass sculpting ?
I hate using foods as art because it make you feel bad eating it but it will decay overtime
Just another reason why visiting Japan is on my bucket list
They don't taste good and they increase your blood sugar. No thanks
Okay, can I just add that Tezuka's (the candy sculptor) has great skin complexion.
Seriously? The candy art is from China…
Don't lick the art.
The effects of being addicted to art be more like Japan
"Usually out of animals, birds and fish"
Hmmmmm
This is some high-end art for ants
Even an awesome video like this has dislikes?
It only takes five minutes?? I thought it would take hours to sculpt one!
I physically would feel like an evil monster for eating that awesome art
If u search effort, ask Japanese
I will eat them all…🐟🐬
I would not eat that art!!
Too beautiful to eat
I know how to mold gumby with clay :’-)
Please tell me i’m not the only one who thinks it must taste like shit tho
He is cute and handsome! 😍😍😍
The getting of the clear stuff is so satisfying
So beautiful to eat…
He's cute tho
Chinese has much better version of it while Japanese is very much good at advertising himself.
I still remember the old candy art video of insider but the artist didnt use heat and mic the colour in the candy , well it is more different now they heat it and paint it
Why is he high key cute though
I don't think I could eat those candies without crying, Lol 😆
This some bullshit, I've been doing this with my chewing gum for years wheres my recognition?
how big was the Japanese aristocracy to allow for this level of impractical artistry?
Just do it with glass instead. That way it lasts forever.
This is amazing
“usually of animals, birds & fish” is that not all………animals?
That's taking it to the celestial level!
I'd want to preserve it as art. It's so incredibly beautiful.
sarap talga nyan lasang kmay
I would never eat it. Thats super nasty. Wear golves or somethin. Nasty
Wow im amazed
Hes cute too
Using the same clips but flipping them smh
Using the same clips but flipping them smh
All this beautiful, intricate art and the only thing I'm thinking is
the animals look like they have giant stick dicks
Eat it
Thumbnail:
Me: did you impale the fish?
0:20 WOAH!!!!!
0:30 You're going to find some 'Kaka' on that stick ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
How can you eat that? It's too beautiful to consume it. The candy itself will confuse you where to eat first, because everything about it is just amazing and beautiful.
Wait am i the only one who wants to become every good thing i see interms of career 🙄😏 scareeed
I wish I could learn how to do this. This is so incredible and beautiful 💜
Amazing and awesome love Japan
My mom acctually bought one for my baby sister…..but she droped it.
That looked like clear slime
Hours to make, seconds to eat
0:24 "Usually of animals, birds, and fish." Because birds and fish aren't animals.
9 year old: OOH SLIME!!!
5 minutes to sculpt
10 minutes to paint
15 seconds to eat
F
I don't have the courage to eat that masterpieces.
Wow.
I wish we had that here.
Amazing video and amazing channel and amazing job friend 😀😎👍
Can he do this with glass?
i wanna lick it so bad.
Wow beautiful artwork. I hope your craft lives on for a long time.
Similar to what they done in china..
Is it just me cuz at the starting i thought it was clear slime..
Wow Amazing
Why can't I get rid of onscreen buttons !!
Next thing you know:
Robbery at Candy Art showcase, appears candy has been e a t e n
The Asians always know
But srsly making something that takes 15 minutes and someone can eat it in 5 seconds…
I wonder how much one of those lollipops costs.
0:00 he's touching the candy with his dirty hands.
I have a wooden box with sushi candy a friend brought me from Japan. I never ate them. It is in my bookcase. Too beautiful to eat.
This looks like slime
Let me guess
The next video is about a pizza place
It took you at least an 15 minutes to create this piece of candy.
Took me in under a min to eat it. (눈_눈 )
So satisfying 😯
Aren't birds and fish also animals?
Japan are amazing at godly at anything
Edible Figures
The candy looks like clear slime! Haha! 🤣😂
It's like glass crafting tools. This Sugar art. Too many tools. And hand touching. How are you eating? Sugar melts quickly.
I saw japanese art candy in my dream and i searched it up this is the exact video from my dream… and ive never watched this video… im confused
5 minutes to sculpt? 10 minutes to paint?
Heck, I can’t even draw a stick figure in 5 minutes, and we have him doing this
Wow!!!!
I WOULDN’T EVEN EAT IT
I respect painstaking work