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ii) Jotoshiki: The ceremony of jotoshiki, widely known as tatamae, is performed for every building project. It is done where construction has reached the point when the ridge beam is about to be installed. With steel frame construction, it is performed when the last beam is about to be installed. Jotoshiki is intended to thank the gods for their protection, for the ar¬ chitectural construction, and for ensuring that the construction has progressed smoothly to the present stage, as well as to ask them for continuing favor until the completion of the work. The ceremonial procedures are similar to those of jichin

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Softwood is easier to plane with harder steel. The planing quality is also affected by the angle at which the blade is set in the plane body. To plane hardwoods or extremely highly figured woods, 45-55° is the most efficient angle, and for softwoods, 30-35° is ideal. Very soft woods, such as kiri (paulownia) or balsa, may require 22°-30°. Most North American woods work well at an angle of 32°-35°. Generally, the harder the wood, the steeper the angle required to plane it. Some denser woods, such as maple or exotic hardwoods, may require a blade angle as steep as 55-60°. Through experience, a craftsman will learn the proper angle for use with each type of wood. BLADE Used to shave the sides of a groove to widen it, or for finish This plane has a built-in guide and is used to cut a groove into a Characteristics off Wood Wood finishes In most traditional Japanese structures, paints, varnishes, or other finishes are seldom used, except for some decorative purposes in temples, or occasionally to prevent moisture penetration on, for example, beam ends. Coal tar or creosote may be applied to the base of posts or other footings to resist water damage. One method of finishing sometimes used is scorching with a torch of logs or posts. This seals off the cells of a porous grain and also darkens and highlights the grain pattern.

North American equivalents: Port Orford cedar (sim. hinoki), Alaskan yellow cedar (sim. sugi), redwood, pressure-treated fir

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rect the conditioning of the body of a plane. Its blade is set perpendicular to its body, and it scrapes across the grain. It is used to correct any slight warp or twist.Open Culture scours the web for the best educational media. We find the free courses and audio books you need, the language lessons & educational videos you want, and plenty of enlightenment in between. Measure & Construction of the Japanese House: Contains 250 plans and sketches plus illustrations of joinery Chisel out the diagonally marked "section on both sides between lines A and F until the haunch is squared. Hafu facia. A decorative panel which accentuates the shape of the gable roof, and which has a depth similar to that of the

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maintenance, or the set of the teeth not being even, right and left. If the sets on both sides are not evenly aligned, the cut will be crooked, favoring the side with the greater set (see Figure 2.24). This may be determined by sighting along the length of the tooth edge or sight¬ ing along the length of the blade. Tools and Their Care The types of saws Unlike Western saws, which are rated by the number of teeth per inch, Japanese saws are graded according to length, with the number of teeth, especially in crosscut saws, being roughly constant. Thus, a smaller, shorter saw has finer teeth than a longer saw. The following are the different types of saws and their functions: Since joinery doesn’t cause holes in the material, and it is relatively easy to disassemble. In the spirit of mottainai, pieces of furniture that are no longer useful to their owners can be taken apart and rebuilt into something that is more suitable. Taking apart a chest of drawers to make several small boxes, or a more modern item like a TV stand is entirely possible without destroying the well-aged materials. Place a level at each end of the piece, as shown in Figure 5.30, then look at the tops of the levels to see if they align. If they do not align, the wood is warped. In this case, plane it, removing the warp difference gradually, until the piece is flat. Next, using the sumitsubo, mark a length of 4 inches from each end of the piece.

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If you dissect Japanese joinery techniques, you can see how they use techniques similar to dovetail joints and tenon mortise joints. Though it is on a much-advanced scale where the wood just seems to slide into slots and combine like it is one piece. At times it becomes difficult to differentiate two pieces of wood that are joined with Japanese joinery. That is how snug the wood sits together with another.