| Description |
1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; The Genius of Japanese Carpentry; Introduction to the First Edition; Chapter 1 Woodworking in Japan; Chapter 2 The Master Carpenter; Chapter 3 The Yakushiji Project; Chapter 4 Temple Design: The Sanzo -- in; Chapter 5 Selecting the Wood: Rules of Thumb; Chapter 6 Fabricating the Parts; Chapter 7 Secrets of Enduring Carpentry; Chapter 8 Tools; Chapter 9 Making a Joint; Chapter 10 Erection of the Picture Hall; Chapter 11 The Ridge Beam Ceremony; Further Reading; Index-Glossary; Back Cover |
| Summary |
This new edition of this Azby Brown architecural classic contains a new preface by Brown, fully revised chapters, along 25% new photography and in color for the first time. An extraordinary and ambitious work of architectural reconstruction is underway in twenty-first century Nara. The Genius of Japanese Carpentry is the story of the twelve-hundred-year-old Yakushiji monastery and the dedicated modern-day craftsmen who are working to restore what has been lost to the depredations of time, fire, and warfare. In the eighth century, anonymous carpenters first erected the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 6, 2014) |
| Subject |
Carpentry -- Japan
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Buddhist temples -- Design and construction
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Buddhist temples -- Japan -- History
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Buddhist temples
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Buddhist temples -- Design and construction
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Carpentry
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Japan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781462913787 |
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1462913784 |
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