japanese wooden boat building book
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 […]. Brooks, author of the comprehensive survey japanese wooden boatbuilding, joins us to share what he discovered on his journey to fishing villages around japan, where he interviewed elderly master. 124 pages. this book is out of print and is very difficult to find, even in the used book market. you can get the japanese-text edition instead - see the book titled "wood construction for connecting and splicing joints". sumiyoshi was born in 1911 and began his carpentry apprenticeship in 1924. he started his own enterprise in 1930. 
japanese wooden boat building book How-to books on boatbuilding, repair, seamanship and sailing. woodenboat books this is the book publishing part of woodenboat publications, started by jon wilson in 1974 with the publication of woodenboat magazine. we've been publishing good books since the 1980s. Douglas brooks boat building . this is the first comprehensive book in any language on traditional japanese boatbuilding. it is my fourth book on the subject, encompassing all five of my apprenticeships throughout japan. only books ordered from this site can be inscribed and all copies sold here will be signed by the author.
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