🎬 Documentary

Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

1981 59m Dir. Richard Leacock

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Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and shipped to Boston Children's Museum. This first-hand observation of traditional tools and woodworking techniques chronicles the assembly process. In the progress of construction the contractor performed three Shinto housebuilding ceremonies.

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Year
1981
Runtime
59m
Genre
Documentary
Director
Richard Leacock
Language
EN
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