(07-16) 18:24 PDT OAKLAND-- Nine varieties of bamboo surround Jay van Arsdale's home in Oakland. Pass through a hand-carved gate, enter the large, airy workshop where he plays a CD of shakuhachi - ...
Dozuki. Ryoba. Roku-dai. Hira-kanna. Mori-nomi. Wonderfully exotic names for exotic, beautiful tools, the instruments of the Japanese woodworker. As he worked and talked during the course of a recent ...
Do you recognize this tool? This Japanese tool is part of the East Asian collection at the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures at the University of Illinois (www.spurlock.illinois.edu). The 30.7 cm long ...
"A Fine woodworking book"--T.p. verso. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!197038~!0#focus ...
The Carpenters' Line uncovers the art of master woodworking from the densely forested Hida region of Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. The title refers to both the lineage of woodworking in Hida and a ...
LOS ANGELES — Japan House Los Angeles has announced the opening of “Masters of Carpentry: Melding Forest, Skill and Spirit” honoring Japanese daiku, or master carpenters. The exhibition will be on ...
Originally published: Woburn, Mass. : Woodcraft Supply Corp., 1975. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full ...