| #864818 in Books | Brooks Douglas | 2015-08-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.21 x1.18 x8.96l,.0 | File Name: 1891640631 | 320 pages | Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great achievement|By Chou Kung|This is one of the best books written about traditional Japanese craft techniques. I would give it a quarter-star less for his prejudice against scholars (I mean the ones he does mention are clearly ivory tower types, but there are those who are not). Still, it is well written, nicely illustrated, easy for non-Japanese readers to follow, and even||This is a magnificent study. Its minuteness and clarity of detail will fascinate not only wooden boat builders, but anyone interested in the craftsmanship and culture of an earlier Japan. (James F. English, Jr., Director Emeritus of Trinity College and Mystic
This is the story of the author's apprenticeships with Japanese masters to build five unique and endangered traditional boats. It is part ethnography, part instruction, and part the personal story of a wooden boatbuilder fueled by a passion to preserve a craft tradition on the brink of extinction. Over the course of 17 trips to Japan, Douglas Brooks traveled over 30,000 miles to seek out and interview Japan s elderly master boatbuilders; he built boats with ...
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