somakosha
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An Apprenticeship at Somakosha
For reasons I cannot fully understand, I was invited to work at Somakosha as a carpentry apprentice earlier this year. Accepting the job wasn't straightforward.
Somakosha in July
Returning to Okayama two weeks later, and high off my last visit’s success, I tried to fit the door making workshop’s 12 day curriculum in 4 days.
Exploring angles at Somakosha
Most people do not need know how to build a roof hip. But the ability to design and layout joinery with complex angularity—in anything—is what we walked away with.