Traditional Boats - East and West - at Douglas Brooks Boatbuilding

Douglas Brooks is a boatbuilder, writer and researcher, specializing in wooden boats built to traditional Western and Japanese designs. My research work involves documenting the design secrets and techniques of traditional Japanese boatbuilding, working directly with Japan's last wooden boatbuilders. I also research the boatbuilding traditions of the Lake Champlain Basin where I live. http://www.douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com COPYRIGHT © Douglas Brooks and douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com 2016.

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Sawara City, Chiba Prefecture, river boats

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I spent part of yesterday in Sawara City on the way to Lake Kasumigaura.  This city is known for its amazing collection of buildings along e...

Shinano River Boat at the Tokamachi Museum

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A few days ago I took the bullet train into the mountains to Echigo Yuzawa, then a local two-car train to the Shinano River Valley to Tokama...
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Friday, June 5, 2015

Tool Store

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Today I visited Inoue Hamono, a tool store not far from where I am staying.  "Hamono" means "bladed things" (more or les...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Meiji Jingu Shrine and Osamu Shoji

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Yesterday I met for the first time Osamu Shoji, a noted Japanese woodworker who has taught workshops in the West and led woodworking tours o...
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I am a boatbuilder, writer and researcher with a special interest in traditional Japanese boatbuilding. Since 1996 I have apprenticed with nine boatbuilders throughout Japan, building and documenting the designs and construction of over a dozen distinct types of Japanese boats. My research involves working directly with craftsmen in order to document their secrets and techniques. In my view this work is crucial, as Japan's last traditional boatbuilders leave little or no written record of their work and most have no apprentices. This work is chronicled in my latest book, Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding, published in 2015 by Floating World Editions. Signed and inscribed copies are available from my website. Here in the US I build wooden boats for private clients and as education projects for museums and municipalities. I also teach boatbuilding and I am researching the boats and boatbuilding traditions of the Lake Champlain Basin where I live. I write for WoodenBoat magazine, among other publications. Please visit my website: www.douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com COPYRIGHT NOTICE © Douglas Brooks and douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com 2020.
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