Yama san spent last week finishing an extremely large furo destined for a Vermont ryokan project.

Today was my first day at Somakosha.

For reasons I cannot fully understand, I was invited to work at Somakosha as a carpentry apprentice earlier this year.  Accepting the job wasn't straightforward.

How do more expensive planes compare?

Most people do not need know how to build a roof hip. But the ability to design and layout joinery with complex angularity—in anything—is what we walked away with.

This essay is by Noboru Tsuchida, a legendary tool dealer in Tokyo who works only with Japanese professionals.