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Japanese Woodworking Tools Special Edition - Odate
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Japanese Woodworking Tools Special Edition - Odate
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Detailed Description
Japanese Woodworking Tools Special Edition. Author, Toshio Odate
To celebrate Toshio Odate turning the young age of 90, Linden Publishing has produced a limited, special edition of his book
Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use. This edition is the original 9" x 12" size, but
with a hard cover, dust jacket and slip case. Each book is numbered, signed, and stamped with the Odate family crest. There
is a new preface by Toshio.
Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit and Use is a fascinating look at a unique woodworking culture
and philosophy. Odate's apprenticeship as a tategushi, or sliding door maker, during his boyhoood in Japan is the basis for
a personal and insightful look at each traditional hand tool in the Japanese woodworker's tool box; reflecting on their
origin, manufacture, and details on their care, use and maintenance.
Traditional woodworkers can learn much from Japanese Woodworking Tools with its comprehensive study of the history,
development and use of Japanese tools. It provides detailed, first-hand information on how each tool is finished, tuned,
sharpened, maintained and repaired by the craftsman who owns it. An all-time favorite.
At age 90, I started to think one more time about the role of the shokunin and
his life with his tools. Scholars, scientists, and historians can catalog, document,
and analyze traditional Japanese tools, but who will preserve the elements the
tools played in protecting and supporting the craftsman’s life? Only the craftsman
who uses the tools knows that. That experiential knowledge, which I knew
intimately and intuitively, I preserved in this book. Today, nobody makes a living
with hand tools alone, and therefore nobody can write a book like this ever again.
—Toshio Odate
ISBN
200 pages. Hardcover.
Additional Information
Review: Japanese Woodworking Tools Their Tradition, Spirit and Use by J. Norman Reid
Author Toshio Odate: Making Shoji by Toshio Odate
Product Warnings
 WARNING FOR RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA!
This product may expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
Please read our Proposition 65 warning.
For more information, see www.P65Warnings.ca.gov.
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