Craftman's efforts making glassware with 職人
Vocabulary Explanation: Skilled artisan with 職人
Akari picks up a box containing glassware items for her to transport. One of the employees from the shop making the glassware takes the box from her to place in her gondola. After he does this a second time, Akari says she can help carry the boxes, but he refuses.
- 職人:
- 「このガラス達は親方が精魂込めて作った」
- “These pieces of glass were made with the maestro's heart and soul poured into them.”
- 「僕達職人の努力の結晶なんス」
- “They're the crystallization of our craftsmen's efforts.”
- “These pieces of glass were made with the maestro's heart and soul poured into them.”
結晶 can refer to crystallization, but also to the fruits (of one’s labor). He means the latter here, but the former works well in an English translation without losing the meaning.
Key Points
- In this scene, 職人 means trained artisans who carefully make the glassware, not just generic workers.
- It highlights skill, pride, and craftsmanship, which fits the speaker’s respect for how the pieces were made.
- There is no extra particle between 僕達 and 職人; the second noun identifies what kind of “we” he means.
- You can read 僕達職人の努力 as “the efforts of us craftsmen”.
- This kind of noun stacking is common in speech when the speaker is defining their group or role.
- Literally, 結晶 is a crystal or crystallization, but here it means the result that has taken shape from long effort.
- In context, he is saying these glass pieces are not ordinary products; they are the visible outcome of the artisans’ hard work.
- なんス is a colloquial contraction of なんです, common in casual masculine speech.
- It keeps the line friendly and conversational while still sounding earnest and emphatic.
Vocabulary
結晶 (Crystal)
結晶 means a crystal, and by extension the crystallized result of long effort. It can be literal in science or figurative in expressions like “the crystallization of hard work.
努力 (Effort)
努力 means effort, hard work, or striving. It refers to sustained exertion directed toward a goal.
職人 (Craftsperson)
職人 means someone whose profession involves creating objects by hand using the skilled techniques acquired through years of training and experience.
僕達 (We)
僕達 means “we” when spoken from the standpoint of a male speaker using 僕 for “I.” It extends the humble or boyish self-reference of 僕 into the plural.
See Also
- External: Past tense with 〜た・〜だ
- Grammar: Marking the subject with が
- Grammar: Marking the topic with は and も
- Kanji: People and persons with 人