Abstract
SHistorically in Japan, carpentry had been recognized as a mystical profession. In a book entitled Hidasho-monogatari), the master carpenter was so skilled that he could make his house float in the air (Masamochi and Hokusai 2002) (Fig. 23.1).
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Kuroishi, I. (2015). Mathematics of carpentry in historic japanese architecture. In Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future: Volume I: Antiquity to the 1500s (pp. 333–347). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00137-1_23
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