Ebook: The Genius of Japanese Carpentry: Secrets of an Ancient Craft
Author: Azby Brown
- Tags: Carpentry -- Japan. Buddhist temples -- Design and construction. Buddhist temples -- Japan -- History. Temples Buddhist -- Design and construction. Temples Buddhist -- Japan -- Nara-shi -- Design and construction. Yakushiji (Nara-shi Japan)
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
- Edition: Revised edition
- Language: English
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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 Read more...
Abstract: 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