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  2. Kumiko (woodworking) - Wikipedia

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    Kumiko panels slot together and remain in place through pressure alone, and that pressure is achieved through meticulously calculating, cutting, and arranging interweaving joints. The end result is a complex pattern that is used primarily in the creation of shoji doors and screens. Traditionally, the wood of choice was the hinoki cypress.

  3. Shoji - Wikipedia

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    A tatami room surrounded by paper shoji (paper outside, lattice inside). The shoji are surrounded by an engawa (porch/corridor); the engawa is surrounded by garasu-do, all-glass sliding panels. A shoji ( 障 しょう 子 じ, Japanese pronunciation: [ɕo: (d)ʑi]) is a door, window or room divider used in traditional Japanese architecture ...

  4. Disordered piling - Wikipedia

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    Disordered piling. Disordered piling (乱石積, ransekizumi) is a Japanese wall -building technique consisting of large number of small stones packed tightly together. [1] It was used in some Japanese castle walls to create a wall that was difficult to climb. As it became more sophisticated it evolved into a technique known as burdock piling. [2]

  5. 50 Printable Pumpkin Carving Stencils To Use as Templates - AOL

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    47. Boogeyman. 48. Dog Bones. 49. Brontosaurus. 50. Ghost Template. These free printable pumpkin templates will give you plenty of fun ideas.

  6. Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter - Wikipedia

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    English. Japanese. Box office. $543,894 [2] Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is a 2014 American drama film co-written and directed by David Zellner. [3] [4] The film stars Rinko Kikuchi, Nobuyuki Katsube, Shirley Venard, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner, and Kanako Higashi. Alexander Payne and Kikuchi serve as executive producers.

  7. Burdock piling - Wikipedia

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    Burdock piling (牛蒡積み, gobouzumi) is an advanced Japanese technique for building stone walls, named after the resemblance of the rough stones used to the ovate shapes of the blossoms of Japanese burdock plants. [1] [2] It was used to build ishi gaki (石垣), sloped stone walls which make up the foundations of many Japanese castles, such ...

  8. Kumiko Takahashi (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Kumiko Takahashi (高橋 久美子, Takahashi Kumiko, born 1982) is a Japanese writer and former rock band drummer with the band Chatmonchy. Books. The Sun Jumped Out Of The Universe (2010, poem) The House and the Desert (2012, poetry, short stories) Kumiko Takahashi go 1st small Edo Kawagoe history poetry of the journey (2013, statement, poetry)

  9. Nakazonae - Wikipedia

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    A variant of the hijiki (肘木) or timu (替木) is the hana-hijiki (花肘木), composed by either one or two horizontal series bearing blocks standing over an elaborately carved floral pattern. Renzigong or Warizuka. The 人-shaped dougong (Chinese: 人字栱) warizuka (割束) strut consists of a wooden inverted V topped by a bearing block.