Should you’re aware of the Japanese artwork of wood joinery, you’ll possible discover kumiko equally intriguing. The normal craft emerged within the Asuka period between about 600 and 700 C.E. and equally eschews nails in favor of completely reduce items that notch into place. Intricate fields of florals and geometric shapes emerge, creating an ornamental panel that usually covers home windows or divides a room.
A video from The Process, a YouTube channel exploring numerous manufacturing sectors and hand-crafted methods, visits the workshop of Kinoshita Mokuge. Viewers are welcomed into the meticulous, labor-intensive course of of manufacturing elaborate, interlocked motifs. Japanese Arts additionally supplied a glimpse into this artwork kind a couple of years again throughout an equally calming go to to Kurozu Tetsuo’s studio.