Japanese jeweler Buchin Yoshioka lives in a village near Fujiyama, speaks no languages other than his native language, and makes “live” things. His butterflies, dragonflies, and beetles move as if they were alive. And the jeweler is ready to fight to the end in this, until they are completely similar to nature.
The master sits in a tiny workshop, for which a room in his house has been allocated. White cats with an indescribable Japanese expression on their faces run around the house – they are chubby and smiling. The workshop looks like the workplace of all unrecognized geniuses. One wall is given over to books, along the others – workbenches with (we must give credit to Japanese technology) modern computers and microscopes. The eye catches on the familiar spines of books – a lot of Lalique, watch catalogs for many years, other jewelry publications. From the photographs on the wall, where the master poses with European-type people against the background of the Jaquet Droz logo, one can conclude that the Swiss brand did not miss the opportunity to use the skills of the Japanese in their complex watches.
Buchin is outwardly completely indifferent to the future fate of his things – some store in China takes his butterflies and dragonflies, sells them for big money, but even if there were no Chinese, he still would not stop working. One thing can take from three months to six months. The master works fanatically, interrupted only by a short sleep and ascetic food.
