The Small Garden by Ken Tsukamoto

Japanese small-garden habits applied to American yards: no lawn, less work

American homeowners with small suburban yards who want less mowing, watering and weekend yard work and some home-grown vegetables (inferred from titles and the about text).

• Realistic avatar
• A photorealistic middle-aged man with dark, greying hair and glasses, usually in a blue button-down shirt, gesturing at a yard problem; his mother appears only as hands or from behind.

One yard habit per video (mowing, watering, leaves, planting dates): why the American way wastes work or money, then the Japanese small-garden alternative, often through what the persona's mother does; some videos are numbered lists.

• Lawn replacements and no-mow ground covers
• A mother's small vegetable garden
• Low-maintenance Japanese garden plants
• Seasonal planting and fall chores
• Watering and yard work to drop

• My Japanese Mother [Has Never Done X] — Here's What [She Does] Instead
• [N] Things EVERYONE's Yard Has That a Japanese Garden Never Would
• EVERYONE [Does X] Wrong (The Japanese Garden [Does Y])
• Plant [X] This Week or Buy It All Year — My Japanese Mother Never Buys [X]

The persona mid-shot in a blue shirt pointing at a yard scene, problems circled in red; older thumbnails use a lowercase sentence ending in a period with one yellow word underlined, the 4 newest switch to all-caps white and yellow text.

• The mother angle leads: the 2 'My Japanese Mother...' videos hold 14,604 of the channel's 23,509 views (62%)
• One frame on every title: all 15 name Japan or a Japanese mother, set against 'EVERYONE's' yard in 8 of 15
• Money- and time-saving contrarian hooks in thumbnails: 'you're mowing for nothing.', 'you pay to water the sidewalk.'
• Near-daily output: 15 videos in 21 days at about 10 minutes each, matching the about text's 'New videos daily'