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Taking Apart a 100+ Year Old Japanese House Constructed Without Any Nails

submitted by deleted to Mildlyinteresting 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 12:35:13 ago (+58/-0)     (Mildlyinteresting)

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[ - ] SocksOnCats 11 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 14:53:40 ago (+11/-0)

Why in fuck are they taking it apart? That shit will last forever.

[ - ] deleted 5 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 15:26:54 ago (+5/-0)

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[ - ] ruck_feddit 3 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 16:40:02 ago (+3/-0)

What are you supposed to do when a nigger moves in next door but you love your house?

[ - ] Boardallday3 3 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 17:15:54 ago (+3/-0)

Well, as you can see here, they can take it apart and rejoin them later. With screws and nails that isn't even really an option.

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 21:20:13 ago (+1/-0)

BLM the house

[ - ] charliebrown_au 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 18:34:03 ago (+2/-0)

That is WHY they are removing old world buildings
and stuff made to last

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 21:19:48 ago (+1/-0)

The enriched refugees need a place to live

[ - ] PostWallHelena 8 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 14:52:22 ago (+8/-0)

Fucking cool. Japs and koreans have such different building traditions from us. I really think alot can be picked up from those guys in terms of house architecture and creating ergonomic efficient homes

[ - ] Boardallday3 6 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 17:25:08 ago (+6/-0)

Well Europeans have used similar wood joining techniques since the middle ages and even earlier. Asians make great stuff too. When high I.Q. humans make steel tools they make things like this. The right way. The reason we use screws and nails now is because they are faster and cheaper, and unskilled cheap laborers can put them together faster than homes like this can be built. . . People will buy a McMansion in the suburbs for the same price it would cost to build a beautiful home like this that will last 300+ years. That's just how it is now. It's sad. If we had national socialism our people would appreciate the skilled labor required to build homes like this.

[ - ] Her0n 4 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 19:31:11 ago (+4/-0)

I admire the skill involved with this type of building.

I'm going to practice the joints when I build the next dog house. I have books on how to utilize these joints.

[ - ] bonghits4jeebus 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 6, 2022 00:28:00 ago (+1/-0)

People have been using nails for a long, long time. It's not like people got lazy recently.

[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 6, 2022 06:48:47 ago (+1/-0)

Well Europeans have used similar wood joining techniques since the middle ages and even earlier.

Exactly, asians didn't invent dowels or half of the commonplace carpentry joinery techniques.

[ - ] AugustineOfHippo2 5 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 15:42:33 ago (+5/-0)

Here is a really great book on Japanese Joinery:

https://smile.amazon.com/Art-Japanese-Joinery-Kiyosi-Seike/dp/0834815168/ref=sr_1_1?crid=37XG13JEKIAIO&keywords=japanese+joinery&qid=1662406717&sprefix=japanese+joinery%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-1

i have been to Japan and seen some of that first hand. truly amazing. although they use some nails/screws now, there still is quite a bit of each new timber-frame house build with these types of joins. a lot of the lumber you can buy comes pre-cut with mortise and tenons.

[ - ] Boardallday3 5 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 17:11:27 ago (+5/-0)

Japanese woodworking is awesome. Their wood planes go the other way.

https://youtu.be/kFLt0duNrgc

[ - ] GoldenAgeWhen 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 21:50:47 ago (+1/-0)

Well... i guess i have to step up my sharpening game

[ - ] PearofAnguishJuniorManager 4 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 18:11:16 ago (+4/-0)

Making all those cuts with a hand tool sounds like a hell of a job. I knew a guy that bought a 400 year old house in Bavaria, he had it taken apart and rebuilt at another location. There were no nails in that one either. When they took the place apart they found a tunnel that connected to an old structure about 100 yards away that was now a tavern. He went down the tunnel and heard people and music he started banging on the ceiling, which was their floor. He went over there and asked if they heard him beating on the floor. They had. The tavern owner didn’t know there was a tunnel. Some waitress quit on the spot, she thought it was a ghost.

[ - ] The4thReich 3 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 14:49:17 ago (+3/-0)

Is there advantage to not using nails?

[ - ] PostWallHelena 10 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 14:55:14 ago (+10/-0)

These skills might be useful for when jews ban nails and screws.

[ - ] diggernicks 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 18:52:38 ago (+2/-0)

You've never put anything together in your life have you

[ - ] Her0n 3 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 19:31:30 ago (+3/-0)

I'm sure she's made a meal or two.

[ - ] UncleDoug 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 6, 2022 06:49:18 ago (+1/-0)

Doubt

[ - ] Boardallday3 3 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 17:13:07 ago (+3/-0)

Nails rust. The joints aren't nearly as solid and precise. It's also beautiful and something to be proud of. All good and expensive furniture uses joints instead of nails. Nails are for shingles and temporary structures. Use joints and pegs to make things that last.

[ - ] Sunman_Omega 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 16:58:30 ago (+1/-0)

I wonderer the same. It seems needlessly complicated to build when some nails would accomplish the same job more quickly and with less effort.

[ - ] CPU 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 23:15:29 ago (+1/-0)

The wood all expands at the same rate, over time nails will loosen.

[ - ] TheYiddler 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 6, 2022 07:22:28 ago (+1/-0)

Japan was very metal poor. Their culture with katanas was because the metal made them so expensive.

[ - ] Jiggggg 3 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 15:17:47 ago (+3/-0)

That's incredible. How?? How did they do this?

I really hope they are carefully taking it apart to maybe move it somewhere else

[ - ] CHIRO 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 16:00:21 ago (+2/-0)

With lots of tenons and 'biscuits'.

[ - ] Boardallday3 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 17:29:02 ago (+2/-0)

With very sharp steel chisels and tools. You sharpen them every time you use them

https://youtu.be/2ZYMh62sMgs

[ - ] Deathstalker 3 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 21:28:55 ago (+3/-0)

Westerners could make this but we couldn't afford to selling to ourselves while paying like 80% overall taxes to parasites.

[ - ] lord_nougat 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 12:36:39 ago (+3/-1)

No nails?

Do those japs have any duck food?

[ - ] StealthNinjaTaliban 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 15:33:58 ago (+2/-0)

They are earthquake proof

[ - ] PostWallHelena 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 22:50:16 ago (+1/-0)

I was wondering if there might be more flex in the building.

[ - ] Doglegwarrior 2 points 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 19:13:05 ago (+2/-0)

Every one is equal diversity is our strength

Tokyo as big as new york and London almost zero murder no crime

In 1000 years no one in Africa will ever make one house that beutiful and perfectly engineered

[ - ] CPU 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 5, 2022 23:15:52 ago (+1/-0)

Entire earthquake resistant castles are made like this.

[ - ] goatfugee12 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 6, 2022 09:47:35 ago (+1/-0)

Now show me them taking apart a 100 year old African house.

[ - ] SilentByAssociation 1 point 2.7 yearsSep 6, 2022 10:12:27 ago (+1/-0)

Reminds me of certain Amish-built homes.

https://youtu.be/92xEjO4YcLo

https://yewtu.be/92xEjO4YcLo

[ - ] average_ant 0 points 2.7 yearsSep 7, 2022 11:07:22 ago (+0/-0)

Would have been better without the faggy music.