The Building Blocks of Edo
Show: Ukiyoe EDO-LIFE --> Season: 2 - Season 2
AirDate: 3/22/2020
Runtime: 5
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Overview: 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