The Art of Japanese Joinery. Kiyosi Seike

The Art of Japanese Joinery


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ISBN: 9780834815162 | 128 pages | 4 Mb


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The Art of Japanese Joinery Kiyosi Seike
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.



For our final post on Japanese craft, let's take a look at the beautiful art of carpentry. Kintsukuroi (金繕い) is a Japanese technique of repairing broken ceramics with metal lacquer, usually gold or silver. Japanese carpentry is known for its complex system of joinery, crafted entirely by hand. One has to have a basic understanding of Japanese carpentry to appreciate the joinery. We took a moment to speak with Ms . Handcrafted ki-oke stool by Shuji Nakagawa for Japan handmade and OeO. It is remarkable in the type of joinery used – just wooden wedges and pegs – without mechanical fasteners of any kind. It's hard to imagine an entire house built without nails or screws, but this is exactly what the art of wood joinery in Japan is able to accomplish. At present, the title began to dawn on me. Much more complex than western joinery. Ki-oke Stool highlights the important of radtioanl handicrafts for a modern audience. This lively introduction to Japanese joinery not only delves lovingly into the unique history and development of Japanese carpentry, but also reveals many secrets of Japanese joinery. But it is an inspirational art book of classic Japanese joinery. The Japanese artist knits her amazing projects by hand – her most famous project, for example, inside the “Woods of Net” Pavilion at the Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan, took her about a year to complete. Japanese joinery came about as a result of Japan's abundance of trees throughout its land (Seike, 1977). The Japanese realized this long ago when they developed their art of Japanese joinery. It said: 'The art of Japanese Joinery', made in 1977. In Kiyosi Seike's, The Art of Japanese Joinery, both history and catalog of Japanese carpentry & joinery, there is a spread of several black & white photographs, detailing a selection of different joints.





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