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The Art of Japanese Joinery by Kiyosi Seike

The Art of Japanese Joinery Kiyosi Seike ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
ISBN: 9780834815162
Page: 128

This lively introduction to Japanese joinery not only delves lovingly into the unique history and development of Japanese carpentry, but also reveals many secrets of Japanese joinery. Kintsugi, which means golden joinery in Japanese, is the art of fixing broken pottery. Reading a short book on historic Japanese joinery I came across a description of kiwari jutsu. Posted by hoola whoop at 4:44 PM · Newer Post Older Post Home. From the book 'The Art of Japanese Joinery' (found here). Kintsugi (金継ぎ) (Japanese: golden joinery) is the art of fixing Japanese broken pottery with a laquered resin sprinkled with powdered gold or silver. The Japanese realized this long ago when they developed their art of Japanese joinery. 'The Art of Japanese Joinery' by Kiyosi Seike is the best introductory book into Nippon wood joinery as an artistic craft. The images, truly spectacular, and the careful design of the application Memories of Japan makes a perfect way to start Art Of Japanese Joinery. This application is published a few weeks after the terrible earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan, so the authors have decided to donate all the money collected to discharges to the japanese photography books Red Cross to help victims of this disaster. A good cause makes this initiative even more attractive. The impulse is seemingly in all of us despite our culture, location or time. Japanese joinery came about as a result of Japan's abundance of trees throughout its land (Seike, 1977). Typeface header: OTIK by Karl Nawrot. The cracks are healed with a lacquer resin that is spinkled with powdered gold before drying.