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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.
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).
This list of Living National Treasures of Japan (crafts) contains all the individuals and groups certified as Living National Treasures by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of the government of Japan in the category of the Japanese crafts (工芸技術, Kōgei Gijutsu).
Teijirō Muramatsu; Takenaka Daiku Dōgukan, Traditional European Woodworking Tools [Yōroppa no dentō mokkōgu], 1992, Kobe, Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum, OCLC 221488123; Toshio Odate, Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit, and Use, 1998, Linden Publishing; reprint edition, ISBN 978-0-941936-46-0
It was a family-owned woodworking business that specialized in building tansu cabinets [2] and butsudan. Shortly after the World War II (1939-1945), the Singer Corporation had established a Japanese subsidiary, Singer Sewing Machine Company Japan, and set up production facilities in Nagoya. Singer contracted Matsumoku Industrial to build its ...
Yakisugi (Japanese: 焼 杉, lit. ' burnt Japanese cedar ' [1]) is a traditional, very old Japanese method of wood preservation. [2] [3] [1] It is referred to in the West as burnt timber cladding and is also available as shou sugi ban (焼杉板), a term which uses the same kanji characters, but an alternative pronunciation. The ban character ...
Kabazaiku (樺細工) (literally "birch craftsmanship") is the traditional Japanese art of fashioning tea boxes, smoking accessories, and other woodworks out of the bark of a cherry tree. [1] The name is somewhat misleading, as 樺 (kaba, birch) bark is hardly used in practice. It is believed that the term originally came from the association ...