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AKB48 Researchers' Wow!
This show is brought to you by AKB48, 18th and 19th generation researchers,
foodie, experience location, city life, and more!
Challenge yourself with a variety of classic projects!
This show is all about developing skills necessary for location programs!
I'm 18th generation researcher, Narita Kohina. Thank you for having me!
I'm 18th generation researcher, Ina Akiyama. Thank you for having me!
I'm 19th generation researcher, Yui Kawamura. Thank you for having me!
We came to Kamakura today!
The weather is so nice that we might shoot a music video in the sea. What are we going to do today?
As an idol group, we have to put in various efforts.
Today, we will show you our expressive power!
What do you mean?
Expressive power in Kamakura!
Is there any part you think you need expressive power?
I usually do theater performances.
I think we should improve not only dancing and singing, but also our expressive power.
I hope we can improve it.
No matter how good you are at dancing and singing, if you don't have expressive power, you'll feel like you're missing something or you'll feel like you're missing something.
I'd like to improve that part and improve ourselves.
I still have a lot of expressive power, so I'd like to do my best to put in as much expressive power as my seniors.
Let's do our best!
You have a lot of expressive power.
Yes, I do.
Really? It doesn't look like it, but is it okay?
Let's go!
The three of us visited Kamakura last time!
This is where we went first!
Kamakura Sousakuwagashi, Temari.
What kind of place is it to gain expressive power?
- Excuse me. - Excuse me.
- Wait, what? - Excuse me.
- Wow, there's a lot of Japanese sweets. - Look, it's so cute.
- Welcome. - Hello.
- Hello, thank you for coming. - Thank you for coming.
What kind of place is it?
This is a Japanese sweets shop that mainly sells Nerikiri.
So you can think of it as all handmade Japanese sweets.
- Wow. - That's amazing.
Yes, this is a shop that manufactures and sells all handmade Japanese sweets.
What do you do here to improve your expressive power?
- I saw that you're an experience class. - Oh, thank you.
This is it. We also have an experience class here.
Usually, there aren't many people who jump in.
- Today, it's special. - Oh, is it okay?
- Yes, it's a secret. - Really?
- It's a secret. - It's a secret.
- Yes. - Yes.
So, we're going to let you experience it for the first time!
However, can you jump in and easily make Japanese sweets that are made with such delicacy?
Let's move places and first show us the teacher's example.
Since it's summer, we're thinking of two designs with a summer motif.
These two colors are the seeds of Nerikiri.
The ingredients are white bean paste and beef fat, mixed together.
First of all, you make the dough soft like this.
- Then you wrap it in bean paste. - Yes.
- Wow, you're wrapping it up so quickly. - It already looks difficult.
- It's difficult, isn't it? - Yes.
- Is it water? - Yes, water. You have good eyes.
- As expected of you. - We're going to add water and replace the glue. - I see.
- By the way, I've made strawberry daifuku before. - Oh!
- But we can't stick the daifuku's mochi part together. - What's underneath? Powder?
- I think we've added too much powder. - I see.
- I thought that part was difficult. - I see.
- It's amazing. - It sticks together with water.
- This is the characteristic of the daifuku's mochi. - I see.
- It's a technique of Japanese sweets called "bokashi". - I see.
- We're going to use this "bokashi" to express something. - I see.
- What is it? Blue and white. - Blue?
- Blue and white. - Blue and white.
- The sky and summer. - Oh!
- How about this? It's summer sky. - Wow!
- The title is wonderful. - It's summer sky.
- It's a yacht that floats in the sea imagining the south sea of summer. - I see.
- It was round and round until now. - That's right.
- It's amazing that it's going to be like this. - We'd like you to do it. - Oh!
The teacher made it in about 10 minutes, but it's a very delicate work.
Is everyone okay?
- By the way, I think you can make it in 25 minutes. - Wow!
- I'll do my best. - I'll do my best.
- So, 25 minutes, start!
So, first of all, let's choose the material. Here's what we've prepared for you this time.
Six types of outer skin parts and two types of red beans inside.
What color do you want to use?
I want my bass to be light blue.
Then yellow.
Yellow.
What color do you think is good?
What color was it last night?
Red and purple.
Is there purple?
All three of you have decided on your bass color!
But today's theme is expression.
Everyone, have you decided what you want to express?
What do you want to make?
I want to make it look like a flower.
You want to make it look like a flower. Got it!
That's cute!
Kawamura-san?
Kawamura-san, what do you want to do?
What do you have?
Purple.
I wonder what it is.
Purple.
But flowers can be simple and cute.
That's right.
Let's make flowers together.
Then, Kohina-chan.
That's right.
That's cute.
Thank you.
Yellow and purple are my penlight colors.
Is there anything you can do with yellow and purple?
Like a sweet potato.
That's right.
It will be a purple sweet potato.
For now, let's wrap it in red bean paste.
So, flowers, red bean paste, and sweet potato!
Let's start making it!
First of all, knead and spread the outer skin.
Then, roll up the red bean paste inside.
I like both of them, red bean paste and white bean paste.
I like both of them, too.
Really?
Yes.
It's comforting.
It's a comforting character.
Ah, it's coming out.
It's like this alpha-alpha.
Alpha-alpha? What are you talking about?
Then, wrap up the rolled red bean paste with the skin and put the design in the process.
It's like this.
Yui-chan, you had a clever image, but it turned out here.
Maybe...
Now, the base is done, so all you have to do is stick it or draw a line as you like.
Well, you can use this triangular tool I used earlier or this white tool like this muddler.
If you stroke it like this, the surface will stretch.
If you do it like this, you can probably do it with this tool and material.
If you do it like this, you can cut it into small sizes and stick it like this.
Tear it up and separate it into about three pieces.
This is difficult.
That's a little less than before.
You don't wrap it all up and draw a picture of a purple fish.
Is there such a thing?
But it means a new design will be born, doesn't it?
I guess so.
Yes, I'm suffering from the sea now.
Is it okay?
Do you sing and dance?
Yes, of course.
Wow, dancing is difficult, isn't it?
No, it's really difficult.
You didn't like dancing at first.
I really didn't like dancing at first.
I was inexperienced at first, but I've grown up like this.
That's for sure.
You're good at it.
Yes, like that.
It looks like a sweet potato.
Good.
Good for you, team sweet potato.
You're getting closer and closer to completion.
Yes, we are.
In the middle, team flower is also a task spot.
After putting a mark in the middle,
let's go half step at a time.
Half step at a time.
From bottom to top like this.
I see.
Oh, you're good at it.
You're getting good at it.
Yes, I'm getting good at it.
Team sweet potato, if you have time...
Yes.
...can you use a bamboo skewer...
...and stroke the sharp part?
Yes.
Can you do that?
Oh, I see.
Let's move on to more realistic finishing.
It's hard.
One minute left.
Wow.
Oh, wow.
Wow, you said "natural wow".
You said "super natural wow" just now.
Can you balance it?
If you put another one just below like this...
...you can put some water on it.
Oh, I see.
Cute.
What are the three members' feelings for sweet potato?
It's done.
It was a little difficult, wasn't it?
Yes, it was difficult.
Above all, I thought it was a professional job to complete this most difficult part of the task in a limited time.
What kind of Japanese sweets did you make in a short time?
First of all, Kiyama-san!
Here is the completed one!
A beautiful flower of vivid light blue!
What did you want to express with this?
First of all, I made the base color of my favorite light blue and gradated various colors.
In order for me to bloom as an idol in the future, I added various colors and thought that my flowers would bloom by combining various things, such as expression power.
I made this work because I wanted to bloom like this flower!
Great!
It has a meaning, doesn't it?
Yes!
Very cute and good at it!
I'm happy!
Very good at it!
Thank you!
I'm happy!
I was praised!
Next is Kawamura-san!
Based on purple, I made a cute flower with a different atmosphere from Akiyama-san!
I made a flower, too!
What is it?
It looks like a pencil case, doesn't it?
Yes, it is.
I made it pink with penlight color to make it look cute.
Good job!
Yui, do you like it?
Yes, I do.
The atmosphere changes so much with different colors.
Doesn't it look like Japanese?
Yes, it does.
It's so cute. You two did a good job.
It was fun.
Thank you.
Lastly, Narita made it with a novel idea of Japanese sweets and sweet potatoes.
What's that?
I made a sweet potato.
There is a point.
There is a mark here.
Can you see it?
Can you show me?
It has a leaf-shape.
It's a leaf-shape.
It's a point.
It was a sweet potato at first.
It's a work of growing up with fans while growing up.
I tried my best to make sense of it.
Each of you has your own personality.
I can't believe you made it in a short period of time.
It took me a long time, but I'm glad it's done.
I'm glad it's done.
I didn't know what would happen.
I think it was a little difficult, but I prepared another place where you can improve your expressions.
Let's go there.
It's getting dark.
Next, we visited this place.
Atelier and Gallery, Ichirin.
When you go inside, there are a lot of books.
There are about 100 reprinted versions of famous Japanese literature that were published from Meiji to Showa.
Here, we are going to have an experience of expressing the inspiration we got from famous literature from all eras with one flower and one leaf.
Hello.
Do you like books?
Yes, we do.
I also read a lot of books.
Really? Have you ever seen such old books?
No, we haven't.
It's my first time seeing it.
This is a complete reprinted version of books of Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods that lasted for more than 100 years.
Wow!
And...
Yes?
Isn't it very beautiful?
It's beautiful.
It was like this until we entered Meiji.
That's right.
Do you know it? It's called "watojibon".
Have you ever seen "watojibon"?
No, we haven't seen it in real life, but it appears in dramas and such.
It appears in period dramas, doesn't it?
Yes, it does.
In Meiji 6th year, a book like this came into Japan.
Wow!
A book that was lying down became three-dimensional.
Then, Japanese people worked hard and came up with a beautiful style and tried to make it beautiful.
Wow!
And there is a person who makes it especially beautiful, and that is Soseki Natsume.
Wow!
Do you know the famous book "Wagahai wa neko de aru"?
Yes!
This is very famous for being a beautiful book.
Wow!
Isn't it cool?
Wow!
It's my first time seeing it.
It's my first time seeing it, too.
Is it your first time seeing it?
Yes.
And...
Wow!
It's gold!
It's called "tenkimbon".
Tenkimbon
"Ten" is "suk" in Japanese.
In this period of time, people were really sticking gold.
Please open it.
Wow!
Please open it.
Wow!
Do you notice anything when you open it?
It's stuck together.
It's stuck together, isn't it?
Yes.
How do you read it?
This is called "uncut version".
"Uncut version"?
Yes. This is a book that you can cut yourself with a paper knife.
That's too much.
So you know how far you've read it.
And you're the only one in the world who can read it.
Wow.
And there's one more thing.
Natsume Sosaki has a heart of her own.
Natsume Sosaki wrote this word herself.
Wow.
This word.
Is this how you read it?
Yes, it is.
In the past, you had to read it like this.
It's easy to read.
Today, I'd like you to read it slowly.
But it's a little difficult.
When you read this book, I'd like you to express this beauty in flowers.
Flowers?
Yes.
The beauty of masterpiece literature.
It's overwhelming, isn't it?
What did you feel when you read this book?
Expressing it in flowers...
This sounds difficult, too.
As Ikebana beginners, we're going to teach you how to make flowers.
So, what is it?
This time, we've prepared different pots for you.
I have a feeling you're going to make something unique.
When you're done, make a story out of it.
First of all, fold the leaves in any shape you like.
Here we go.
Like this.
Oh, yes.
I got it.
A woman's courage.
Yes, make it in one go.
You only get one chance.
Here we go.
Like this.
Yes, like that.
Good, good.
Like this.
It's OK.
OK.
With all your heart.
That's right.
Good.
Then, put it in and decide where you want it to be placed.
OK.
It's just this horizontal container.
This is the first time I've seen it like this.
Interesting.
This is beautiful.
How can I stand up?
That's right.
Please decide the front yourself.
This is the front.
You can cut it off or leave it as it is.
OK.
I can't stand up.
What should I do?
What's wrong?
I can't stand up.
You look like you're making pickles.
It looks delicious.
Ms. Narita is struggling with a unique container.
You can do it from the front.
Yes, thank you.
You're busy.
From now on, I'm going to design it.
Should I put an egg in it?
I'm going to put flowers in it for completion.
It's difficult.
You just stood up, didn't you?
I'm a little unstable.
It's coming out on its own.
It's okay, it's okay.
Sometimes you need luck.
Let's go with this one.
Oh, but I like this one, too.
It's good. You can make it longer.
Emphasizing the vertical line.
It's cool, isn't it?
Wow, wow.
It's an art.
What's going on?
Oh, you're a challenger.
You came there.
Great balance.
What kind of handsome man has completed it?
Is it done?
Yes, it is.
Great! It's done!
I'm sad, everyone.
Could you explain the work one by one?
First of all, Ms. Akiyama, who was making it while thinking about it.
Well, I...
Ta-da!
It's a work like this.
It's very stretchy.
Well, I...
Even if I have difficulties, I want to stretch it out.
I'm going to make it look up at the end.
There are girls who gave up and girls who gave up.
But I want to stretch it out like them.
And I want to shine like a flower.
Great!
It's a strange octopus with a good taste.
It's a new kind of balance.
Thank you very much.
Next up is Ms. Tarita, who was struggling with her unique vase.
My vase was long and hard to stand up, so it had a weird shape.
This stem represents my heart's wall.
I was originally a non-commissioned employee, but now I'm here representing my personality.
It was difficult to make this vase.
Thank you for this wonderful vase.
Next up is Ms. Kawamura, who discovered unexpected awkwardness today.
My vase was long and hard to stand up, so I made the stem and stem part long and hard to stand up.
It was difficult to make this vase.
It was well-organized.
The vertical lines stand out.
It's simple and modern.
Thank you for your hard work.
I made Japanese sweets in the first half of the video and made rice cakes.
The theme of AKB48 was creativity, but did you use reflection or criticism?
Even while making the work, there are some parts that I am confused about.
When I actually perform, I think it's coolest to express what comes out naturally from the inside, not what I'm confused about.
There are some parts that I noticed while making AKB48, so I would like to improve more and more in the future.
I often get compliments from fans and people around me that I'm unique.
I think I was able to show you a different side of me today.
I will continue to grow my personality without forgetting it.
It was very difficult for me and Ohana Ikete to translate the finished product into language.
You two were very good at translating it into language, so I learned a lot today.
From us?
Thank you.
We will continue to work hard!
Wow!
Here is this week's best scene chosen by the director!
It looks like a real sweet potato.
There is a point, and there is a mark here.
Can you see it?
There is a mirror on it.
Ms. Narita made a strangely realistic sweet potato with a bite mark! It was an innovative idea!
Thank you for watching!
If only someone knew about our relationship...
We crossed dangerous sand and made our way through without stepping away.
Isn't it just right for him, the rumored guy?
I didn't care and showed him my freedom.
(What is going on?)
I fell in love with you.
I knew it from your gaze.
Even though I loved you so much...
Will you say goodbye to me? Baby, come on!