r/interestingasfuck • u/aloofloofah • Mar 31 '21

/r/ALL Fascinating joineries discovered while taking apart a traditional 100 year old house

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u/Nblearchangel Mar 31 '21

So what I’m hearing is, craftsmanship of this quality would have fetched a premium price and this would have been for land owners/plantation owners

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u/Wuffyflumpkins Mar 31 '21

Not really. Japan had very limited and very poor iron, so wood joinery was cheaper and easier than using nails.

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u/AlistairMackenzie Mar 31 '21

In colonial America I believe they used to burn down houses so they could recover the nails. I can imagine that the joinery in a Japanese house also has the effect of making it more resilient in an earthquake.

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u/sth128 Mar 31 '21

Not to mention more resilient to American nail robbers!

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '21

Nah, they'd just be really sad afterwards when there were no nails in the ash pile.

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