As the Museum’s second floor galleries are being reinstalled, we’ve been acquiring resou
As the Museum’s second floor galleries are being reinstalled, we’ve been acquiring resources on the history of Japanese art. This illustration from Hokusai’s Lost Manga (left) shows the use of a Japanese woodworking tool, a Chona or Adze.This figure resembles a similar image found in Toshio Odate’s book on Japanese woodworking tools (right), although 160 years apart. Odate, who taught for 16 years at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, explains why the chona is so close to the worker’s foot, “If the shona should slip slightly, the user catches its upper surface with the sole of the foot.”Posted by Sandy Wallace -- source link
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