1000-year-old Japanese joinery techniques that does not require nails or glue
1000-year-old Japanese joinery techniques that does not require nails or glue pic.twitter.com/CfTiAlIYlt
— Farbod Saraf (@farbodsaraf) September 30, 2018
To be fair, friction fit wooden dowels or inserts are just nails when you don't have access to iron. Amazing craftsmanship, but out of necessity.
— Kory Nunn (@KoryNunn) September 30, 2018
Yeah but, the integrity of an all-wood join is superior to nails because the wood components all have the same stress tolerance under load. The nail is stronger than the wood and rips it under load
— sholto maud (@shizzmd) September 30, 2018
nailed it
— Ainsley🎃ICHABOD🎃Sutherland (@AAAinsley) September 30, 2018
Seems like all of these were taken from @TheJoinery_jp and someone just added a watermark and some music
— purkkaviritys (@purkkaviritys) September 30, 2018
Shameless really
— guachingman (@guachingman) September 30, 2018
You're right - I wrote about this way back in 2016, with full credit to @TheJoinery_jp https://t.co/d1iSOzA6kB …
— Oona McGee 🇯🇵🇮🇪🇦🇺 (@OonaMcGee) October 1, 2018
Terrible how people think it's okay to steal work that's taken time and effort to create and then get the glory for it.
China invented this before Japan
— likeSimpler (@LikeSimpler) September 30, 2018
Of course! China invented everything before anyone else
— Andrea (@AndreusCoder) September 30, 2018
Japanese are so cool to manufacture things like art. but the truth is a chinese guy named luban (鲁班）invented this tech about 2500 years ago. and this called "luban lock (鲁班锁)" .
— deeeeeeeeep (@desperado0809) September 30, 2018
The luban lock was never used in functional joinery until the 16th century though, only to make small objects. Japan developed Sashimono largely independently. Dougong on the other hand, Chinese wood bracketing, is an effective and ancient technique of woodworking.
— March of the Skeletons (@marchofthenorth) October 1, 2018
The truth (invented by human nature) is that ancient Japanese (also Korean, Vietnamese) building styles, principles and methods were also largely from ancient Chinese (not from modern Chinese). If you ask a Japanese expert, he will also honestly tell you this truth.
— ION蓝阳 前中国大陆律师，家庭教会传道 (@IONLAN2018) October 2, 2018
Except that's not how innovations and discoveries work. China certainly influenced Japanese building methods, but they didn't invent these jointing techniques. The Chinese Luban joints were primarily used in toys and small devices, not architecture.
— March of the Skeletons (@marchofthenorth) October 2, 2018
The methods and cuts used here emerged out of the Japanese fascination with wood and its natural properties, the same way ball jointing and ironcraft emerged in Korea. China doesn't get credit for their cultural discoveries, only for influence.
— March of the Skeletons (@marchofthenorth) October 2, 2018
One does not give credit to China for the first novel (the Tale of Genji), but would say Chinese themes definitely influenced the novel and culture of the time. Influence and invention should not be conflated.
— March of the Skeletons (@marchofthenorth) October 2, 2018
Chinese ancient buildings are mostly of wood but very few preserved to today. I believe Japanese preserved the oldest wood buildings.
— ION蓝阳 前中国大陆律师，家庭教会传道 (@IONLAN2018) October 2, 2018
Sure, but they still used nails and seated joins, not interlocking joins like these. These joins are a Japanese invention, not a Chinese one.
— March of the Skeletons (@marchofthenorth) October 2, 2018
ikea is probably losing it rn
— LuxLuxray (@luxray_lux) September 30, 2018
They actually use some of those techniques :) https://t.co/b9809Evt4T
— Cyril Biselx (@cyrilbiselx) September 30, 2018
