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The Art of Japanese Joinery Kiyosi Seike
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Inc.

The Japanese artist knits her amazing projects by hand – her most famous project, for example, inside the “Woods of Net” Pavilion at the Hakone Open Air Museum in Japan, took her about a year to complete. In Art Of Japanese Joinery, Professor of Architecture Kiyosi Seike writes that everyone in Japan knows the word kodama, meaning the spirit of a tree. At present, the title began to dawn on me. €�The term “kintsugi” means 'golden joinery' in Japanese and refers to the art of fixing broken ceramics with a lacquer resin made to look like solid gold” (….and often actually using genuine gold powder in the resin). Thumbing through one of my writer's notebooks, I found a note about the ancient Japanese art of joinery called Kintsugi (kin-tsugi). It said: 'The art of Japanese Joinery', made in 1977. We took a moment to speak with Ms . 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. It is remarkable in the type of joinery used – just wooden wedges and pegs – without mechanical fasteners of any kind. Apart from other treasures, trees in Japan are among the most revered.