The Building Blocks of Edo
Ukiyoe EDO-LIFE - Season 2

The Building Blocks of Edo ()

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Workers at a sawmill use the latest tools and their honed skills to prepare the building blocks of Edo life: long, narrow beams, bamboo stems and leftover wood stacked as high as buildings. "Tatekawa in Honjo" from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" (c.1830) by Katsushika Hokusai