The Genius of Japanese Carpentry
Subtitle: The Secrets of a Craft
Publisher: Kodansha International
Published: July 14, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9784770019783
Subjects: Religious buildings; Woodwork - General; Carpentry; Crafts & Hobbies; Crafts / Hobbies; Hobbies/Crafts; Japan; Construction - Carpentry; Architecture / Domestic; General
First sentence: In most discussions of traditional Japanese architecture, one of the first questions to be raised is why wood has been the primary building material, contrasting so sharply with the Western tradition, whose ancient monuments were almost always of stone and brick, and even with Chinese and Korean architecture, where masonry figures almost as prominently as wood.