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  2. Japanese carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Wagoya type traditional roof framing, a post-and-lintel type of framing. Yogoya type traditional roof framing, called western style. Japanese carpentry was developed more than a millennium ago that is known for its ability to create everything from temples to houses to tea houses to furniture by wood with the use of few nails.

  3. Toshio Odate - Wikipedia

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    Toshio Odate (born 1930) is a Japanese-born American sculptor, woodworker, craftsman, author, and educator. [1] He specializes in Japanese woodworking and is a noted shoji maker. [2] [3] He is the author of, Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use (Taunton Press, 1984).

  4. Little Tokyo, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    It is bounded on the west by Los Angeles Street, on the east by Alameda Street, on the south by 3rd Street, and on the north by First Street, but also includes a substantial portion of the block north of First and west of Alameda, location of the Japanese American National Museum, the Go For Broke Monument, and a row of historic shops which ...

  5. List of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    Toshio Odate (born 1930), Japanese woodworker, sculptor, educator; born in Japan and moved to the United States in 1948. Masi Oka , actor and digital effects artist, raised in the United States Arthur Okamura (1932–2009), California painter, illustrator and screen-printer associated with the San Francisco Renaissance

  6. George Nakashima - Wikipedia

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    George Katsutoshi Nakashima (Japanese: 中島勝寿 Nakashima Katsutoshi, May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker, architect, and furniture maker who was one of the leading innovators of 20th century furniture design and a father of the American craft movement [citation needed].

  7. Mira Nakashima - Wikipedia

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    Work from the Keisho collection [19] have been exhibited at Mingei International Museum in San Diego, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Idaho, and the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. In 2003, she designed and produced chairs for the Concordia Chamber Players, which are now sold as the Concordia Chair in the Nakashima line.

  8. Yakisugi - Wikipedia

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    Traditional houses in Naoshima, Kagawa clad with yakisugi panels Close-up view of charred yakisugi board Yakisugi treated wood used in a box for sunglasses. Yakisugi (Japanese: 焼 杉, lit. ' burnt Japanese cedar ' [1]) is a traditional, very old Japanese method of wood preservation.

  9. Category:Japanese woodworkers - Wikipedia

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    Japanese woodcarvers (3 P) Pages in category "Japanese woodworkers" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.