Books and Videos

Doll wall and opening-Photo record of Myokian Shoin and Tea House Waitan preservation repair-

"Mianan" is the only existing teahouse built by Sen no Rikyu and is one of the four national treasure teahouses currently only four. Due to the cracks in some of the clay walls caused by the Northern Osaka Earthquake that occurred in June 2018, the first time in 23 years was restored. This book consists of photographs carefully taken by Naoko Tamura, a photographer living in Kyoto and active in Japan and overseas, and completed photographs by Taizo Furukawa. Includes texts and drawings written by Myoki Iosumi and experts, as well as a dialogue between Masao Nakamura and Mitsuyoshi Saito held in 2014.

Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum + Butter Park Edition
2,700 yen (excluding tax), B5 version, 60 pages, color, monochrome Japanese, English
Limited sales of 500 copies

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・Wutter Park
・Kyoto Maruzen Junkudo
・Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore
・Other bookstores specializing in architecture
・Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum Museum Shop

I understand it in the illustration! Introduction to carpentry tools - How to use it from craftsmanship

In order to provide a guide to those who want to know more about carpentry tools and want to learn more about carpentry tools, we picked up representative tools and explained the work and mechanism, how to use and care from the name of the part in an easy-to-understand manner.

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Edited and edited by Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum
2,000 yen (excluding tax), A5 version, 185P
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun (ISBN978-4-526-07827-9)

The World of Domiya Carpenters―

The story of carpenter tools spelled in watercolors: Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum Collection

We explained traditional Japanese carpentry tools, mainly from the collections of the museum, along with Yasuyuki Yasuda's watercolor paintings.

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◎Yasuyuki Yasuda Profile
Born in Osaka in 1950. Graduated from Kyoto University of Education. He started sketching activities using postcards around 1980. Presented works in solo exhibitions, PR magazine covers, newspaper illustrations, corporate calendars, etc. 1998 New Year's New Year's postcard Hyogo prefecture version, "Akashi Kaikyo Bridge" is drawn on hometown stamps. He has authored "Kobe / Town Story", "Brick / Town Story", "Hannari Kyoto Sketch Feeling".
Yasuyuki Yasuda, Painting, Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum,
1,600 yen (excluding tax), A5 version, 144 pages, 4 color printing
Asakura Shoten (ISBN978-4-254-68020-1)
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Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum's 20th Anniversary Skills and Hearts

This is a commemorative magazine produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the museum's opening.

◎ Roundtable Discussion with Rokusuke Ei = Talk with young craftsmen
"About the future of craftsmen in Heisei"
◎ Special Feature
・The skill of the soul of an ancient craftsman
"Technology of craftsmen handed over from hand to hand" Mitsuo Ogawa
・Transmission from iron engineers
The romance of a man who bet life on a "millennium nail" Yukinori Shirataka
・Wood and copper are weathered and still beautiful
Text = Terunobu Fujimori
・Traditional Japanese architecture from the perspective of Western Europe
Sentence = Christoph Henrichsen
◎ Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum 20 Years History 1984-2004

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Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum Ten Years History: 1984-1994—

◎ From the concept of establishment to opening

◎ Ayumi as a corporate museum
◎ Ayumi as a foundation
Not for sale B5 version

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Traditional European woodwork

Published on October 1, 1992
Special price: 1,000 yen A4 version 192 pages

This is a favorite version of traditional European woodwork from the museum with beautiful photographs. It also contains commentary by experts.

Supervised Teijiro Muramatsu
Commentary Teijiro Muramatsu, Kunio Ota, Akira Watanabe

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