| Blog series by Jojo | updated 628 days ago | 3 parts | 1068 reads | 54 comments total |
Part 1: Exterior trimming
Tonight I’m tired and I don’t feel like making a long post but this is no reason for not inflicting you some of my awful prose and photos. Just a little picture to show you how, even more than a hundred years ago, the daiku-san (traditional japanese house builders) were very careful when scribing the wood around the baseboards of even the most humble homes. .. The gap looks bigger due to the enhanced contrast created by the flash but is pretty much between 1/32 and 1/8 al...
Part 2: Want timber?
One of the things I will miss once I’d quit Japan it will be the safety. It’s definitely the safest country I ever lived in. I regularly park my bike downtown leaving it for hours in a row fully loaded with a backpack or unattached goods I bought, and don’t even think that anything could be missing at my return. This possibility simply doesn’t cross our minds. Guaranteed, Kyoto with 1,5 million inhabitants is far from the crazyness of Tokyo Metropolitan Area and ...
Part 3: The mother of all burl slabs
A couple of weeks ago I was wandering through the city in my bike looking for a calm place to study when I stumbled upon a huge ensemble of temples that I didn’t know beforehand. It doesn’t matter that it is about 60 acres in surface, there are so many temples and shrines here that you just dont pay attention to them anymore. From the street you barely see a small gate and once inside it gets slowly revealed to you. I only got to explore a few of the buildings but this is what ...
Due to my present status of "shopless" woodworker you are not likely to see many -if any- projects here for the time being but, at least, I'll try to contribute giving you my views of the japanese side of woodworking through the old works you can find here all over the place.
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