Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

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• Duration: 59 minutes
• Genre: Documentary
• Rating: N/A/10
• Release Date: 1981-12-01

Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and shipped to Boston Children's Museum. This first-hand observation of traditional tools and woodworking techniques chronicles the assembly process. In the progress of construction the contractor performed three Shinto housebuilding ceremonies.