12/11/2006

Door sculptures

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From the doors of a sake storehouse in Katsuyama

They were made of stucco by the local wall plasterers (shakan, sakan 左官) with very simple tools. The plasterers used to make the earth walls (tsuchikabe 土壁) of traditional Japanese houses.







On the lower doors, there are two lions:








Read my article about the town of Katsuyama .



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to see more artworks of these Japanese wall plasterers !


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Daruma Museum, Japan

The World Kigo Database

1 comment:

Gabi Greve - Darumapedia said...

shakan, sakan 左官 plasterer, stucco master


kote-e 鏝絵 "painting with plaster", relief picture often as decorations on the storehouse of rich merchants.

The main work of the shakan san during the construction of a traditional home is the making of the wall

tsuchikabe 土壁 "earth wall", mud wall

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