Let's enjoy Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum at home!
In addition to video images of Permanent exhibition by curators, video works that can be viewed at the video library on the 2nd floor of the Tool Hall basement, videos related to special exhibitions such as the Kigumi exhibition that has ended, and videos such as the video "Carpenter is amazing!"
There are four types of coloring pages at the bottom of this page.
Permanent exhibition's commentary by curator
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■A Journey through History (about 12 minutes)
Commentary: Curator Uemura
Japanese carpenter tools that have been walking along with the development of forging wooden architecture. History of Tools, from prehistoric times to modern times, is an interesting and easy-to-understand corner with real and restored materials, powerful large models, emakimono, and abundant video materials.
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■Learning from a Master Carpenter (about 6 minutes)
Commentary: Chief Curator Sakamoto
A carpenter ridge that combines various craftsmen with a well-trained leadership to create architecture. There are many things to learn about the skills and mind for modern manufacturing and organization building. It is a corner that introduces the charm through powerful models and drawings that explain the actual work.
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■Tools and Handwork (about 22 minutes)
Commentary: Curator Choi (Che)
There are various sizes and shapes, even if you say a chisel or plane in a bite. The carpenters used them skillfully according to their work. This section introduces the types, mechanisms, and usage of Japanese carpentry tools that boast diversity and uniqueness that are rarely seen in the world.
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■Tools Around the World (about 10 minutes)
Commentary: Chief Curator Nishiyama
The shape and usage of carpentry tools differs between Japan, which uses soft wood, and overseas, where hard wood is used. Here, carpenter tools from China and Europe will be exhibited. This section explains the difference between carpentry tools in Japan and overseas in an easy-to-understand manner, along with images and architectural models that show how tools are used.
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■The Traditional Beauty of Japanese Wa (about 9.5 minutes)
Commentary: Chief Curator Sakamoto
In Japan, there are still craftsmen who have the skills and sensibility to create the ultimate beauty by handwork. This is a corner where you can enjoy the world of beautiful traditional beauty through the full-scale model of the tea room, elaborate kumiko work, mica sliding paper sliding doors, clay walls made of natural materials, etc.
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■Exquisite Works of Master Craftsmen (about 25 minutes)
Commentary: Former curator Yasuda
The glow of "beauty for use" emitted by excellent carpentry tools. The blacksmiths, who have a name in history, cut off poetic inscriptions on tools and elaborated artistic designs with solid techniques that inherit the tradition and refined sensitivity. It is a corner that invites you to a deep world of tool culture that has become extremely beautiful.
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■Making the Most of Wood (about 8.5 minutes)
Commentary: Former curator Yasuda
Trees have a personality like a person. In order to maximize its nature, the craftsmen read the habit of wood and use it in the right place. A number of wisdom that makes full use of the precious blessings of forests contained in hand tools. This is a corner where you can explore the skills of a craftsman who reads a tree while enjoying the beautiful expression of a tree.
Video library
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Use tools | Ruler
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The Use of Tools Sumitsubo and Sumisashi
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Use tools
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The Use of Tools Drawing Board
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The Use of Tools Japanese Stereotomy - How to Use Sashigane
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It's just like The Use of Tools
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The Use of Tools saw - the basic one
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The Use of Tools saw - by application
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Only The Use of Tools - only tapping and oat
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The Use of Tools only - finish only and special only
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The Use of Tools Sculpture Only and Sculpture Sculpture
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The Use of Tools Kiri
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The Use of Tools - flattened
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The Use of Tools - Special Cancer One
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The Use of Tools - Special Cancer 2
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Assembling Woods's waistline large ant
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Koshikake Kamatsugu, Assembling Woods
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Assembling Woods Kanawatsugu
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Assembling Woods Daimochitsugi
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Assembling Woods Kyoro Framing Sytem
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Skills of Craftsmen Growing Kitayama cedar trees in Kyoto
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Skills of Craftsmen Kima - Transport of Wood in the Mountain -
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Maintaining Tools Natural Sharpening Stone - Nihonshozan, Kyoto
Let's enjoy the Kigumi exhibition at home
The 35th Anniversary Tour Exhibition "I tried to break the wood group"
Everyone who was interested in the Kigumi exhibition but could not come to the venue for various reasons, those who visited but wanted to watch it again, please enjoy the Kigumi exhibition video.
Kumiko work corner How to make three Kumite
Kumimono Corner Enkaku-ji Temple Shariden Gumimono Full-scale Model CG
Kigumi's technique four-way difference woodwork that the creator talks about
Kigumi's technique four-way difference tools talked by the creator
The craftsman talks about the technical finger of the wooden set, "The wooden set-up length box."
Kigumi's technical team talked about by the producer
Kigumi's technique of Kintai Bridge part model wooden structure talked about by the producer
Kigumi's Gikintai Bridge Part Model 5 Series Comprehensive Edition talked by the producer
Thin-cutting that approaches the craftsmanship
Mortised Rabbeted Oblique Splice Edition Approaching Takumi's Sugo Skills
Feature film Heritage of Kumiko Crafts
Feature film Kigumi House
Making workshop Kumiko coaster at home
Music video "home" Shakuhachi and piano "Kigumi House" original play music. (From Kentaroh Ueda Video Works Channel)
Music video "home" piano, flute, and music accompanied by original play of flat mandolin "Kigumi House". (From Kentaroh Ueda Video Works Channel)
Let's enjoy the Inami Sculpture Exhibition at home
Date: 2023/9/30～12/3
Let's enjoy the Isamu Noguchi TOOLS exhibition at home
Date: 2023/3/4～5/7
Let's enjoy the spring Ishii exhibition at home
Date: 2022/10/1～12/4
Let's enjoy the cut-out sword exhibition at home
Date: 2022/3/5～5/8
Let's enjoy an exhibition that challenges Tenpyo's artisan at home
Kobe Venue: 2021/10/16 to December 12, Tokyo Venue: 2021/8/17～10/8
Let's enjoy the CLT exhibition at home
Date: 2021/7/24～9/20
Let's enjoy the Wise Becker exhibition at home
Kobe Venue: 2021/2/13-5/9, Tokyo Venue: 2020/10/2～11/20
Let's enjoy the Miyano Tetsunosuke Exhibition at home
Date: 2020/10/10～12/13
Let's enjoy the Aalto exhibition at home
Date: 2020/3/28～8/30
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Venue video The Master Sawsmith, Tetsunosuke Miyano Approx. 7 minutes
This exhibition is a pre-planned exhibition of "Aino and Aruba Two Aalto" scheduled to be held in 2021 at the Setagaya Art Museum and the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
Feature film The Master Sawsmith, Tetsunosuke Miyano Approx. 26 minutes
Virtual museum
Introduction of carpentry tools
We will take up representative carpentry tools and explain how to use them with photos and diagrams.
To the Parents
The "House Museum" is a project invented by the Hokkaido Museum with the intent of "let's enjoy the museum at home until the school starts." the museum also supports and implements this project. I hope you can enjoy it with your child. When the museum opens, please come to Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum with your family.
Special Exhibition
Permanent exhibition