Talk:Japanese carpentry

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[edit] Do Japanese houses tend to be made from wood?

I removed a sentence:

Because there are many earthquakes in Japan, Japanese houses still tend to be made from wood, a flexible material, rather than brick or stone.

Maybe I was in a different Japan, but I didn't see many newly built wood houses there. I'd say Japan is rather suffering from a "love affair with concrete", as somebody said on his webpage. Maybe this will change in the future, but there is not much to be seen of a return to wooden houses as of 2005. --Mkill 15:34, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

The Japan is not different most buildings are made with concrete but all the buildings started with wood.I worked for a Japanese construction company and concrete is the last step in making a building. So if you were to walk around Japan and see people making a building you will see wood. Japanese houses are indeed made with wood but not from wood--Hitmanhitz (talk) 12:54, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

What nonsense. I live in a juutakugai where there are new houses being put up all the time, and most of them are wood framed. One of my friends in the construction industry (she's a kenchikushi 2-kyu, if you know what that means) says she has never built anything but a wooden house. --DannyWilde 00:36, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

I added a reference, actually the first hit on Google with the words "wooden construction Japan". It wasn't exactly hard to verify this fact, so I wonder why we even needed to have this discussion. --DannyWilde 03:04, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

1. Well, you added the link of a wood construction company. Of course they claim it is the method that is used most often.
2. But there is a difference between a "wooden post and beam construction system", and a "house made from wood". The difference is in what the walls are made of.
3. In fact I know what a 建築士二級 is. Yes I know people who work in the Japanese construction industry. Yes it completely doesn't matter here.
4. Check the third hit in Google [1], quote: "nonwood homes which comprised about 60 percent of all 1988 housing starts". So wooden homes have a larger share than I though, but looks like they are not the majority. -- Mkill 00:19, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Opening Paragraph/Article Layout Revision?

One subsection of the article is wholly devoted to Japanese tools, but one of the best tool references (the japanese saw that cuts on the pull) is given in the opening paragraph. Perhaps some more general statements about Japan's carpentry and its history (maybe some references to how it's being kept alive today, the two-temple construction at Ise, etc) would fill out of opening better, followed by tools (saw moved to that section) and unique Japanese techniques.

The vise currently listed in the tools section might be considered a technique, if no special tools or objects being used in it are made specifically for the purpose of being a vise. I'm not certain.

I'm an armchair expert, and I don't have any friends in the Japanese building industry, so I won't make these edits unless there's a good reason -not- to, and if noone more knowledgeable steps in to handle it. I like Wikipedia, I don't want to be the one who breaks it.