Daiku Dojo -- Interesting Web Links

• California Daiku - Jay van Arsdale's web site
• Nokogiri: Mark Grable's Japanese Handsaw Sharpening Service
• Shaku Unit Converter
• Japanese Woodworking Forums
• Japanese Hand Tools Forums (from Woodworking Australia's Woodwork Forums)
• JAANUS - Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System
• Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum - Be sure to check out the survey in 1943 which reported that a skillful carpenter had about 179 individual tools (49 chisels, 40 planes, 26 gimlets and 14 marking/ruling-related tools).
• Museum of Japanese Traditional Art Crafts
• Fuchu Museum of Furniture and Woodworks (Japanese page)
• Japan Traditional Craft Center
• Carla Edes' Home Page (check out the link The Butsudan Experience)
• Urako's Handcraft Works (Japanese page)
• monosukuri.net (Japanese page)
• Sanjo Industry: Skills of Sanjo Blacksmithing

• The Crucible - Mike Bray teaches an Introduction to Woodworking Hand Tools class at The Crucible. Check their Classes section for schedule.
• Randall Museum - Mike Bray teaches a Woodworking East & West class as well as an Earlybird Woodworking class. Check their Classes section for schedule.
• Timber Framers Guild
  • TFG Field Report: Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial
• Palomar College's Cabinet & Furniture Technology
  • Kezurou-Kai, USA (2002) - Torii gate.
  • Kezurou-Kai, USA (2004) - Photos by David Dutcher - Fence project.
• The Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding offers year-long apprenticeships, Saturday classes and also special classes celestial navigation, harvesting of local timber, bronze-casting and lofting.
• College of the Redwoods' Fine Furniture Program offers a 9 month intensive program and several summer classes for aspiring and experienced woodworkers.
  

• Wooden Heart - Mike Laine's web site
Bluefield Joiners - Jim Blauvelt's web site.
• Douglas Brooks - Boat Builder - Builder of traditional American and Japanese boats. Douglas is also the author of "The Tub Boats of Sado Island: A Japanese Craftsman's Methods".
• Ki Arts of Hiroshi Sakaguchi
• Richard Wiborg - Check out the interesting photos and articles on Chinese architecture.
• Tamotsu Edo - Be sure to watch the video of Tamotsu Edo working on a half-lap joint.
• Kintaro Yazawa, Furniture Maker - Interesting joinery works.
• Dave Burnard's Web Site
  
• Ludo's Blog
• Tools From Japan Blog - Stuart "Schtoo" Tierney's blog.
• Go's Weekend Woodworking Shop (check out Go's joinery page)
• Ryohei's Woodworking
• Craft House Mana - Check out the 88 temples of Shikoku.
• Alexander Hopkins - Luthier (check out Alexander Hopkins' cool tools photo)
• The Woodwrights Shop Online Video (be sure to check out episode #2608, Japanese Planes With John Reed Fox).
• Peter Mcaney
• mr. barry-man stone

• The Japan Blade is owned by Alex Gilmore. He has a nice inventory of NOS (New Old Stock) Japanese tools and natural waterstones. Contact Alex at Alx Gilmore on the Japanese Woodworking Forums.
• Hida Tool is a one-stop shop for all your Japanese tools needs. Because of the high quality of the tools they sell there, you should expect to pay a premium.
  
• Misugi Designs was the sole distributor of saws and tools by Yataiki, a living legendary blacksmith. Also check out the Chuttaro Imai sword-steel chisels and Yamaguchi planes. Supreme high end tools. Their hardwares and shoji papers will really add that special touch to your project. Unfortunately, Yataiki retired in early 2008 and Kayoko has moved back to Japan to take care of her mother and Yataiki.
  
• Suzuki Tool
• The Japan Woodworker was the first provider of traditional Japanese woodworking tools for western woodworkers.
• Japanese Tools (Hiraide USA) is the provider of high end Japanese woodworking tools and the sole US distributor of Shapton stones.
  
• Iida Tool
• Atsuji Omichi Web Site - Maker of the yari kanna.
• Japan Tool (Australia)

• Lee Valley & Veritas Tools
• Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Inc.

• Japanese Garden Journal - Sukiya Living Magazine (The Journal of Japanese Gardening)
• Tai Hei Shakuhachi - Monty Levenson makes sakuhachi (Japanese end-blow flutes) from his Mendocino County workshop
• Japanese Tea Room - The Reeves Center at Washington and Lee University
• The Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center
• The Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art Collection - UC Merced

Recommended Reading List For Traditional Japanese Handtools And Joinery

• Connections-Introduction To California Daiku Woodworking-Bringing Traditional Japanese Hand Tools And Joinery Techniques To Modern Hands, Jay Vanarsdale- 2 Hr DVD- Californiadaiku.com. '11.
• Japanese Hand Planes-The Workings And Wonders Of Kanna, Jay Vanarsdale, 2hr dvd, CaliforniaDaiku.com 2009
• Shoji-designing, building and installing Japanese Screens, Jay van Arsdale, Kodansha, Int., 1988
• Introduction To Japanese Woodworking, Jay Van Arsdale, Azo Publishers, 1989 (70 - Min. Video)
• Complete Japanese Joinery, Hedeo Sato, Jay Van Arsdale, Contributing Editor, Hartley And Marks Publishers, 1987
• Design And Truth,Robt Grudin, Yale Univ Press, Isbn 978-0-300-17131-0, 2010
• Japanese Homes And Their Surroundings,Edward Morse, Dover, '61
• The Japanese Way Of The Artist-H.E.Davey, Stonebridge Press,2007
• Elements Of Japanese Design-Boye Demente, Tuttle,2006
• Japan-Ness In Japanese Architecture, Arata Isozake,Mit Press,2006
• Zen Architecture-The Building Process As Practice, Paul Discoe, Gibbs-Smith Publ., 2008
• The Way Of The Carpenter, Wm. Coaldrake, Weather Hill, 1990
• Just Enough-Azby Brown, Kodansha,Int. 2009
• The Genius Of Japanese Carpentry, Azby Brown, Kodansha Int., 1989
• Edo Craftsmen, Thomas Judge, Weatherhill, 1994
• The Japanese House, Henrich Engel, Tuttle, 1964
• Encyclopedia Of Wood Joints, Wolfram Graubner, Finewoodworking, 1992
• The Craft Of The Japanese Sword,Leon Knapp, Kodansha, Int., 1987
• The Unkown Craftsman, Soetsu Yanagi, Kodansha Int., 1972
• Japanese Cabinetry-The Art And Craft Of Tansu , David Jackson And Dane Owen , Gibbs Smith Pub. ,2002
• Building The Japanese House Today,Len Brackett, Abrams,2005
• Japan”S Folk Architecture-Trad. Thatched Farmhouses, Chuji Kawashima, Kodansha, Int. 1986
• Wood,Craft,Culture, History, Harvey Green,Penguin Books,2006
• The Secrets Of The Samurai Sword- Nova/ Pbs, 2006(Video)
• Japan's Clay Walls, Emily Reynolds, isbn-9781442145368, self publ. 2011