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Japanese carpentry especially when used for buildings is amazing. It's crazy that they cut/prep all of the wood for the build, and then move it onsite and assemble the frame an a day or two using the precut/prepped wood/joints.



I think this is the same home as the one above.


My understanding is that with a lot of the old Japanese temples, because they are made with joinery that can be disassembled, that they periodically disassemble and reassemble the shrines to repair them. In at least one particular case, they rebuild a Shinto shrine every 20 years, and have been since the 7th century. But I don't believe that's the norm, it's more specific to one shrine or maybe Shinto shrines.