Hoshoji Temple

kumiko from Aizu region of Fukushima prefecture.

The traditional Japanese house symbolizing a long culture of wood, is epitomized by refined fitting such as FUSUMA (Japanese slinding doors), SHOJI(Japanese lattice screens) and RANMA(decorative transoms).
KUMIKO is the defined lattice-work derived from making such fittings.
It was born of finely planed wood, inter-locked in intricate patterns.This is high degree of intricacy is unique to Japanese construction.
The making of KUMIKO is very precise work and requires great preseverance.
The beauty of KUMIKO is portrayed through a great variety of patterns, patterns repeated and combination of different patterns.
Natural color in wood is also carefully arranged. The art of KUMIKO is desprayed through these appications.

Hypnotic gifs animate traditional Japanese joinery techniques

Timber joints slot together in these Tetris-like gifs – the work of a young Japanese man so obsessed by joinery techniques he set up a Twitter account dedicated to the cause.

Its creator has a day job in the car industry but is an avid collector of woodwork books.

Finding the complex instructions hard to visualise, he set about creating a set of gifs that illustrate the different ways that pieces of wood can be bonded together – without the use of glue, nails or screws.

He has now posted 80 such gifs to The Joinery, which has attracted over 20,000 followers since it was set up in February 2016.

I was fascinated by the traditional techniques of creating strong bonds without the use of nails or adhesive, he told Japanese design blog Spoon & Tamago. I want to organise all the joinery techniques and create a catalogue of them all.

The gifs are created using Autodesk's Fusion 360 software, which can be used for modelling, animation and simulation.

Find out more on dezeen.com/2016/10/12/hypnotic-japanese-joinery-gifs-twitter-the-joinery

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