Best of
Woodwork
2000
The Complete Japanese Joinery
Hideo Sato - 2000
Book by Sato, Hideo, Nakahara, Yasua
Making Shoji
Toshio Odate - 2000
This guide to creating shoji brings together both traditional insight and technical mastery of the craft from the perspective of an apprenticed sliding-door maker. Step-by-step instructions, illustrated with photos of each work in progress, give detailed information on how to construct both common shoji and Japanese transom (a piece found between rooms and above sliding doors). The correct use of Japanese tools is discussed, as are techniques for marking lines, making specific joints and handles, using rice glue, and applying shoji paper.