The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum is a museum of

carpentry Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenters t ...

tools in

Kobe Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, whi ...

, Japan. The museum was opened in 1984 with the objective of collecting and conserving ancient tools as an example of Japanese cultural heritage, in order to pass them on to the next generation through research and exhibitions. More than 30,500 pieces of materials have been collected so far, and the museum has held exhibitions, lectures, seminars, classes outside of the museum, and workshops on the people who make use of the tools, as well as the resulting architecture and the culture of wood that surrounds it. The project was designed and constructed by the

Takenaka Corporation is one of five major general contractors in Japan. Takenaka provides architectural, engineering, and construction services and has its headquarters located in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Osaka Prefecture. Takenaka has eight domestic offices in Japan with ...

in collaboration with skilled woodworkers.

References

* John Adamson,
Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum - Japan
, ''Furniture & Cabinetmaking'', issue 234, August 2015
ISSN 1365-4292
pp. 16–20 *Azby Brown, ''The Genius of Japanese Carpentry : An Account of a Temple's Construction'', 1989, Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, *William Howard Coaldrake,
The Way of the Carpenter: Tools and Japanese Architecture
', 1990, Weatherhill, *Jens H. Jensen, "Holy Tools: A shrine to the craft and kit of Japanese carpentry rises in Kobe", ''Wallpaper'', January 2015, pp. 66–70 *Teijirō Muramatsu; Takenaka Daiku Dōgukan, ''Traditional European Woodworking Tools'' ōroppa no dentō mokkōgu 1992, Kobe, Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum, *

Toshio Odate Toshio Odate (born 1930) is a Japanese-born American sculptor, woodworker, craftsmen, author, and educator. He specializes in Japanese woodworking and is a noted shoji maker. He is the author of, ''Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spi ...

, ''Japanese Woodworking Tools: Their Tradition, Spirit, and Use'', 1998, Linden Publishing; reprint edition, {{Authority control Museums in Kobe Woodworking tools Carpentry tools

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