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The patterns are designed to look good, but also to distribute light and wind in a calming and beautiful way. [ 5 ] Traditionally it is made with hand-tools only, but in the western society they have made new techniques to make these kinds of patterns, it involves a table saw, a sharp chisel, and some guides made by yourself, some can be made ...
A number of different types of wood are used in the creation of yosegi.Both the spindle tree (Euonymus spp.) and Ilex macropoda are used for the colour white; aged wood from the Katsura tree (Cercidiphyllum japonicum) is used for black; Picrasma quassioides, mulberry and the Chinese lacquer tree (Toxicodendron vernicifluum) are used for yellow; the camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora) and ...
Wagoya type traditional roof framing, a post-and-lintel type of framing. Yogoya type traditional roof framing, called western style. Japanese carpentry was developed more than a millennium ago that is known for its ability to create everything from temples to houses to tea houses to furniture by wood with the use of few nails.
The shoji frame is a panel called a kōshi (格 （ こう ） 子 （ し ）, literally "lattice"). [15] It is assembled from interlocking laths of wood or bamboo called kumiko. [16] " Kumiko" literally means "woven"; the halved joints alternate in direction so that the laths are interwoven.
In 894 during the Heian period (794–1185), Japan abolished kentōshi (Japanese missions to Tang China) and began to distance itself from Chinese culture, and a culture called Kokufu bunka (lit., Japanese culture) which was suited to the Japanese climate and aesthetic sense flourished.
The art that is worked on the takadai is a braid, not a weave. Although many of the patterns used on this braiding stand resemble the up and down motion of a weave, since each thread takes a turn at being both the weft and the warp, it is a braid. On the takadai it is possible to make intricate patterns using a technique called "pick-up braids ...
The marudai is generally made of a close-grained wood and consists of a round disk (kagami or "mirror") [1] with a hole in the center, supported by four legs set in a base. The Japanese style marudai is often about 16 in (41 cm) high and is used while kneeling or when placed on a table.
Wood, or wood frame covered with cloth or paper, often painted. Feet may be integral, or a separate stand into which a fusuma-like panel can be slotted. [13] Shown is a konmeichi (昆明池) panel, 6 shaku (181.8 cm (71.6 in)) tall; most are shorter seated-height panels. [14] Dates from the 600s or earlier. One of the oldest types of screen ...