Overview of the Exhibition | "Ship carpenter" is a master who uses wood like a house carpenter. However, construction methods and tools are quite different. Japan's shipbuilding industry, which once became the best in the world, is the development of ship carpenters and blacksmithing techniques cultivated since the age of wooden boats. In this exhibition, we will explain the world of ship carpenters from the perspective of tools.
Now wooden boats have finished their role, and there are almost no carpenters. However, in order to preserve that precious traditional technique, there are Americans who are actually studying and inheriting that technique. Mr. Douglas Brooks studied last year with Mr. Murakami, a ship carpenter from the Sanriku region who suffered devastating damage in Great East Japan Earthquake. This time, we will release the process of actually producing the Isofune.        | Period | March 26, 2016 (Sat)-May 22 (Sun) | | Venue | Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum 1F Hall | | Holding time | From 9:30 to 16:30 (entrance until 16:00) | | Closed days | Monday (or the next day if it is a national holiday) | | Admission fee | General 500 yen, Odaka student 300 yen, junior high school students and younger free,
200 yen for those aged 65 and over (including Permanent exhibition viewing fee) | | Sponsorship | Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum | | Demonstration | Douglas Brooks (boat carpenter, journalist) | | Exhibition Supervision | Satoru Matsuki (Professor Emeritus, Kobe Shosen University, Vice Chairman of the Japan Maritime History Society) | | Sponsorship | Hyogo Prefectural Board of Education, Kobe City, Kobe 150th Anniversary Commemorative Project Executive Committee
Himeji Clan Japanese Ship Construction Committee | | Cooperation | Ship Science Museum "Sea Learning Museum Support",
Takashi Kaneda (member of the Himeji Clan Japanese Ship Construction Committee, Rokko Gakuin), Mr.
Masaaki Kon (Specially Appointed Professor, Kanagawa University), Keiichi Takada (Takada Crafts),
Chuo Murakami (Murakami Shipyard), Ako City Board of Education, Okumura Boat Sales Co., Ltd.,
Nagatani Wood Co., Ltd., Kobe Sea Museum, Kobe University Maritime Museum, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
Seto Inland Sea museum of history and folklore, Niigata Prefectural Museum of History |
A boat | 
Japanese ship model (scale: 1/32) | 
Production tools | | 
Production process demonstration: Tanitetsuke | 
Production process demonstration: Board diagram | 
Production process demonstration: Shiki making | 
Production process demonstration: Bending |
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| Download | You can download leaflets in A4 size and PDF format.
Flyer (PDF file, 734KB) |
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| Profile |  | Douglas Brooks (Douglas Brooks)
Ship carpenter, journalist
Born in Deep River, Connecticut, USA in 1960. Completed the American Marine Science Course at William College at the Mystic Seaport Museum in 1980. From 1985 to 1990, he served as an exclusive ship carpenter at the San Francisco National Marine Museum. He came to Japan for the first time in 1990. Since mastering the skills of Tara boats in 1996, he has been working to learn Japanese boat techniques from all over Japan. |
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Commemorative event | ［1］ Special Exhibition Special Lecture "The Sea Talked by Ship Carpenters"
We will hold a course to learn about the process of shipbuilding while experiencing the process of shipbuilding while having American ship carpenters and teacher Hiroshi Murakami talk about the sea and ships.
①The shape of the ship "plate drawing and inking" 2 Woodworking technology I "baked bending" 3 Woodworking technology II "Abrazing-sawing saw and nail difference chisel" |
| Date and time | March 27, 2016 (Sun) 2 Sunday, April 3 3 Sunday, May 1 13:00 to 15:00 on each day
※②Woodworking technology I "burning bending" is a rainy day.
In case of rain, participants are requested to prepare rain gear. | | Tutor | ①・③Douglas Brooks (boat carpenter, journalist)
②Douglas Brooks (ship carpenter, journalist), Chuo Murakami (Murakami Shipyard) | | Location | the museum special venue or B2F Workshop Room | | Capacity | 40 people each time (application required)
※Since it will be a lottery, please apply for a postcard with one postcard each time. | | Application deadline | ①②Must arrive on March 18, 2016 (Fri) / April 8, 2016 (Fri) must arrive on March 18, 2016 | | Participation fee | Free (admission fee is required) | | Click here for details. |
［2］ Kobe Port 150th Anniversary Pre-event “Wafune Launch Ceremony”
The launch ceremony of the ship produced in the demonstration will be held. The priest will be responsible for shipping, and after the launch ceremony, you will actually board. |
| Date and time | Saturday, May 7, 2016 13:00 to 16:00 | | Location | Kobe Port (Meriken Park) | | Capacity | 100 people (application required and tours are also possible) | | Location | In front of the Meriken Wharf Passenger Waiting Area (2-7 Hadobacho, Chuo-ku, Kobe City)
Click here for the map | | Application deadline | Must arrive on April 15, 2016 (Friday)
※Children under the third grade of elementary school must be accompanied by a guardian.
※It may be canceled due to unseasonable weather. | | Participation fee | Free of charge | | Click here for details. |
| How to apply | Please fill in the following items on the web mail or round-trip postcard before applying. | | | Webmail
［１］ Click here for the special exhibition special lecture "Sea talked by ship carpenters" (only for applications held on May 1)
［２］ Click here for the 150th anniversary pre-event "Wafune launch ceremony" | | | Round-trip postcard (up to 1 person per postcard)
※Sorry to trouble you [1] Application for special exhibition special lecture "Sea talked by ship carpenters"
Please apply for one postcard each time.
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［3］ "A Touch of Woodworking" Special Project "Let's Make a Tree Ship!"
This is a woodworking experience in which a model devised mainly by volunteer staff of the generation who made a boat with wood and played. |
| Date of the event | March 26, 2016, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23-24, 2016
4/29 (morning only), 4/30, 5/3-5, 5/7.
5/14-15, 5/21 (in the morning only), 5/22
※According to the date and time of the A Touch of Woodworking event. |  | Holding time | ・Motorboat: 10：00～12：00/13：00～16：00
Your favorite time
・Japanese ship: ①10：30～12：00 ②13：00～14：30
③14：30～16：00 | | Location | the museum B2F Workshop Room | | Application | Not required (first come, first served) | | Participation fee | Motorboat 500 yen, Japanese boat 800 yen
(A separate admission fee is required) | | | ※Motorboats will be accepted up to 10 boats on the day.
※Japanese boats will be accepted up to 3 boats each time.
※We will also prepare a pool where you can actually float the created ship.
In addition to the ships they produced, enjoy the bamboo ship and the pom-pon ship.
You can enjoy it. | | Click here for details. |
［4］ "Technology and Mind" Seminar
“The Shape of Ships between Western Europe and Japan’s Shipbuilding Technology”
We will talk to experts about the diversity and evolution of shipbuilding technology around the world. Consider the history of Japanese ships from the viewpoint of woodworking technology, such as differences from European ships, the use of saw saws and nails, and the emergence of screws. |
| Tutor | Satoru Matsuki (Professor Emeritus, Kobe Shosen University, Vice Chairman of the Japan Maritime History Society), Mr.
Takashi Kaneda (member of the Himeji Clan Japanese Ship Construction Committee, Rokko Gakuin) | | Date and time | Sunday, May 15, 2016 13:00 to 15:00 (Open 12:30) | | Location | Kobe Sea Museum Multipurpose Hall
(Please enter from the entrance of the Southeast South Kobe Port Promotion Association Office.) | | Capacity | 300 people (application required) | | Application deadline | Must arrive on Friday, April 22, 2016 ※It will be extended until May 5 (Thursday). | | Participation fee | Free (Admission fee is required for visiting the Kobe Sea Museum.
You can enter at a group fee. | | Click here to apply. |
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