The Family Who Has Created Traditional Japanese Carpentry For Over 70 Years

0:03 [Music] when you are smart you wanna business you want to make money you have to use a screw rule not however works short time you get another job if you join you do use the nails and screws and actual joint away about okay good for customers but thank you for carpenter he makes it really started 1947 all Japanese physicists started after war originally

0:34 we started as a flower shop it was me accompany the wood shop again 1951 1955 created the double-sided Shoji and until this day we create like a slab tables benches at times two cabinets museu but we mainly stick with the traditional Japanese carpentry networks [Music]

1:07 so we could actually paste this here and I think maybe we need one more in just in case we can overlap started woodworking I guess when I was a child but you're saying I started when one suitable finger on my finger said these are my first tools everybody not officially I got into the business at around 27 being in the corporate world

1:38 for nine years I was like you know what 27 ones I applied for a job give a resume to my father and see you you know anything I'm worthy to be in here he laughs I asked him kill your boss my father kidnapped me they both said to him well if your father did not be nothing I can do he gave to me I put pressure on myself doing things right my father I think he's not trying to teach you how

2:05 to do something it's more like I'm doing it I've done it I'm the role model versus someone wanting to learn how to do something step by step my textbook or something these days by video what that's why I asked eight years I hung it up that over there it was open and the breeze was coming in and now with the buildings there's no wind

2:37 coming in then what is that given then we took it out my father and I are you know we work together and our role is pretty much at the showroom talking to the architects or clients but then when you're gonna give for the Grand Street then he has one straight most people think it's just on one person you know does everything like a ninja I want to be a

3:07 ninja and ninja does everything but no actually it's a large operation where you have to start like wood or knowing which would you have and then carpenters and in each role is really important did you make this when you were a kid yeah yeah at the Japan you can see every house how about Shoji keep the job to put the paper repair thousand years ago

3:38 everybody would working forever last long time you can see still castles they are still houses there but they had a new idea Industrial Revolution craftsmen don't need a cooperation can do machine can do society changing some tactics some customer some people still hold style that's what we get it's such a specific way of making things that if you're looking at a carpentry house that you could you know make something very

4:08 quick that might be more appealing to something that takes a little bit you know more like might cost double but it actually lasts double the lifetime as well so you could pass it on [Music] most important not something important or not something not important no never Honda they will think that way you know in the audience we had to watch for this

4:39 phrase you can't ask for the praise that's why I think things change because I could say it to Heather if Heather wants to do woodworking is gonna be great but society is changing and if she wants to do something different it's good to but at least she has the knowledge and the philosophies of how we actually had this business and maybe it could be applied in different ways how are you do you think this is something that we

5:03 try to do like here in mutuality or is it different different then more fine yeah you think this is something that you'd like to do in the future yeah and I think so too