Damian’s notes

Forestry without cutting dow the trees, but instead training branches in to individual timbers.

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  Wrath Of Gnon on Twitter “Sustainable forestry: lumber without cutting down trees. Daisugi is a Japanese forestry technique where specially planted cedar trees are pruned heavily (think of it as giant bonsai) to produce "shoots" that become perfectly uniform, straight and completely knot free lumber.”

Digitized versions of 650 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese illustrated books including famous artists like Utamaro, Hokusai, and Hiroshige.

(Via Roy Kenagy on Twitter)

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  OpenCulture The Met Puts 650+ Japanese Illustrated Books Online: Marvel at Hokusai’s One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji and More

“Tartan # Through Hole” is a 60% keyboard made by through hole components only, designed by hsgw, the designer of the Plaid.

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  Tartan # Through Hole - 5z6p Instruments "Plaid // Through Hole" is a 12x4 ortholinear keyboard made by through hole components only.

Tampopo (1985) is a Japanese film about a ramen shop that was something of a cult movie amongst my friends in our student days. Here‘s an early scene were a young Ken Watanabe gets taught the correct way to eat ramen.

(Via Roy Kenagy on Twitter)

• http://www.openculture.com/2019/09/the-proper-way-to-eat-ramen-tampopo.html

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  Japan Aesthetics on Twitter “Art museum in Tokyo 🇯🇵”

New EC President / Predicting the weather gets better by a day per decade / More bears in Japan now more people love in cities

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  In like a Leyen: the European Commission’s new president — The Intelligence — Overcast Ursula von der Leyen has a tough task ahead, pressing a broad agenda in a fragmented European Parliament. We take a look at the vast international collaboration that is weather prediction, where it’s heading and how climate change could make it harder. And, why the villages of Japan are where to head if you love getting close to bears.

Hiroyoshi Chinzei, a fourth-generation traditional paper maker, creates washi with a unique purpose that may help revive interest — both at home and abroad.

(Via Eugen (@Gargron@mastodon.social))

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  Skin deep: Japan's washi paper torn by modern life | The Japan Times Once an indispensable part of daily life in Japan, washi paper was used for everything from writing and painting to lampshades, umbrellas and sliding doors

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  Japan Aesthetics on Twitter “Totoro”

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  Japan Aesthetics on Twitter “Japan 🇯🇵”