{"title":"Books on Boat Building","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooks by Douglas Brooks on traditional Japanese wooden boatbuilding, including cormorant fishing boats — documenting techniques and craftsmanship passed down through generations of Japanese boatbuilders.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"japanese-wooden-boatbuilding","title":"Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of the author's apprenticeships with Japanese masters to build five unique and endangered traditional boats. It is part ethnography, part instruction, and part the personal story of a wooden boatbuilder fueled by a passion to preserve a craft tradition on the brink of extinction. Over the course of 17 trips to Japan, Douglas Brooks traveled over 30,000 miles to seek out and interview Japan s elderly master boatbuilders; he built boats with five of them, all in their seventies and eighties, between 1996 and 2010. For most of them, Brooks was their sole and last apprentice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I introduces significant aspects of traditional Japanese boatbuilding: design, workshop and tools, wood and materials, joinery and fastenings, propulsion, ceremonies, and the apprenticeship system. Part II details each of his five apprenticeships, concluding with a poignant chapter on Japan s sole remaining traditional shipwright. This fascinating book fills a large and long-standing gap in the literature on Japanese crafts, and will be of interest to boatbuilders, woodworkers, and all those impressed with the marvels of Japanese design and workmanship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSoft cover | 296 pages \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFloating World Editions | Published 2021 \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSize: 22.5 x 3 x 28.5mm\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Douglas Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43950702788831,"sku":"DB-9781953225009","price":98.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0122\/9422\/products\/japanese-wooden-boatbuilding-db-9781953225009-japanese-tools-australia-969532.png?v=1701233348"},{"product_id":"the-cormorant-fishing-boat","title":"The Cormorant Fishing Boat","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo document and preserve an ancient craft tradition in danger of disappearing, Douglas Brooks apprenticed with five master boatbuilders in Japan between 1996 and 2010, building a different traditional wooden boat with each. His research and experiences were presented in his landmark 2015 publication, Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book documents his most recent apprenticeship, building a cormorant fishing boat with 85-year-old master craftsman Seichi Nasu, in Gifu, Japan. Using trained cormorants to fish has a 1,300 year history in Gifu, and is done at night from special river craft called ubune, literally \"cormorant boat.\" The boat features an extended bow with pivoting boom from which is hung an iron fire basket to light up the water and attract fish, which are then retrieved by the enthusiastic birds. Together with Mr. Nasu, then 85, Brooks worked with several volunteers over a two-month period to build the 42 foot craft, a design largely unchanged for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs in his previous publications, readers are introduced to important aspects of traditional Japanese boatbuilding, including design and measurements, workshop and tools, wood and materials, joinery and fastenings, and above all, secrets of the craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSoft Cover | 96 pages | Floating World Editions | Edition: 2022 | 21.7 x 27.2 cm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Douglas Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43950704034015,"sku":"DB-9781953225016","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0122\/9422\/products\/the-cormorant-fishing-boat-db-9781953225016-japanese-tools-australia-176207.png?v=1701233894"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0122\/9422\/collections\/boat1_1200x_e728e96e-70d1-4b2a-829a-87fa18c4b467.webp?v=1789699402","url":"https:\/\/www.japanesetools.com.au\/collections\/books-on-boat-building.oembed","provider":"Japanese Tools Australia ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}