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The Genius of Japanese Carpentry: Secrets of an Ancient Craft

By Azby Brown

Book information

Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
978-1-4629-1378-7, 1462913784
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
11 MB (11279940 bytes)
Edition
Revised edition
Pages
170\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Buddhist -- Design and construction. TemplesBuddhist -- Japan -- Nara-shi -- Design and constrCarpentry -- Japan. Buddhist temples -- Design andJapan)

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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 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. 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

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