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Extraordinary exhibition celebrates millennia of master woodworking in Japan

A new exhibition at Japan House London traces the development of an astonishing craft tradition, originating in Japan's Hida region and dating back over 1,300 years. 

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Japan is a country with a strong sense of its own traditions and which makes an active effort to maintain them on a practical level. And so, if you're interested in exploring the art of master woodworking, you'll love Japan House London's upcoming exhibition, titled The Carpenters' Line: Woodworking Heritage in Hida Takayama.

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Opening on 29 September, the free exhibition highlights how the Japanese city of Takayama, in the densely forested Hida region of Honshu's Gifu Prefecture, has an international reputation for its highly skilled carpenters over an astonishing 1,300 years.

The title is a play on words, referring to the lineage of woodworking in Hiba and a Sumi-tsubo, aka carpenters' line: a tool used to mark straight lines on wood... more info click https://www.creativeboom.com/news/the-carpenters-line/



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