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[2] [1] 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. [3] Traditionally, the wood of choice was the hinoki ...
Kikuchi's other notable films include Norwegian Wood (2010), which screened in competition at the 67th Venice Film Festival and Guillermo del Toro's science fiction action film Pacific Rim (2013). For her role in the drama film Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014), Kikuchi received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Female Lead .
Lignum vitae is hard and durable, and is also the densest wood traded (average dried density: ~79 lb/ft 3 or ~1,260 kg/m 3); [4] it will easily sink in water. On the Janka scale of hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4,390 lbf (compared with Olneya at 3,260 lbf, [5] African blackwood at 2,940 lbf, hickory at 1,820 ...
The jigumi kumiko are generally joined with simple halved joints, [32] but where jigumi kumiko cross at a non-right-angle, or three cross at the same point (mitsu-kude [33]), the angles can become complicated, [27] [34] and specialized tools are used to cut them rapidly. [35] Small kumiko may simply be friction-fitted and glued. [32]
Kumiko Yamaguchi (久美子), the main character in the manga, anime, and television drama series Gokusen Kumiko Okada (久美子), a character in Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Kumiko Ōmae (久美子), the protagonist of the novel series Sound!
The ishigaki of Ōzu Castle. 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.
Ryobiraki tansu being carried by hired porters. Woodblock print, Utagawa Toyokuni, 1807. Tansu were rarely used as stationary furniture. Consistent with traditional Japanese interior design, which featured a number of movable partitions, allowing for the creation of larger and smaller rooms within the home, tansu would need to be easily portable, and were not visible in the home except at ...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru) is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" (), are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997.