Friday, September 20, 2024

(3227) With a touch of tradition

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Across the street from Kabuki theater in Ginza, a building with a façade in the woodwork style called kumiko saiku (組子細工) that is used in shoji (障子) doors and windows -the ones with the paper- and screens. Real kumiko saiku are assembled without nails and remain in place just by the pressure the pieces exert on each other. 

(For a bigger version of these pictures both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).

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