Japanese Joinery. It is the work of tightly slotting together pieces of timber or lumber to hold together and produce more complicated items. Today, just by typing "Japanese woodworking" or "Japanese carpentry" in YouTube, we can find a lot of videos that introduce complex joints and work pieces built with Japanese woodworking techniques.
See more ideas about japanese joinery, joinery, japanese architecture. The key to this joint is accurate layout, and the key to accurate layout is a story stick that. We've assembled a free PDF of Japanese joinery techniques and Japanese woodworking tools for Western woodworkers.
Rigid joints like western style dovetail and mortise-and-tenon will fail in dynamic loading conditions experience during earthquakes.
The project is ongoing, as the creator continues to seek new information about this fascinating tradition.
Japanese joinery is designed to allow some give under dynamic loading. This elaborate wooden craftmanship became popular in Japan in the sixth century with the introduction of Buddhism. In contrast, Emi and her aunt got more hands-on, from joinery to finish planing.