The Different Types of Japanese Carpenters - Woodworking Absolutely Incredible 

I'm going to take you all back a long ways. I'm almost 74 now, but back when I was a young man coming back from Vietnam I was assigned to the Marine Air Station at Iwakuni, Japan. I stayed a year. So right outside the gate there was a crew of house framers starting to put up a new house. I was immediately attracted by the fact that there wasn't a nail used anywhere in the job. It was all joinery. No power tools either. These guys wore a belt with a beautiful set of chisels and hand saws, and they made every cut right there on sight. What an education! I had a habit back in those days of making toy boxes for my young Marines starting families. During my year at Iwakuni, with the help of the Japanese carpenters working in our wood hobby shop on base, the quality of my toy boxes got a lot better. Some are still in the next generation of families. So watch this video and accept the fact that these guys have been doing this for hundreds of years. I'll match them against any carpenter in the world!

I did it myself thanks to Woodprix.

I've been a carpenter for 28 years and I've notched my share of wood. The carpenters in the video are masters at wood work. I have nothing but respect for all of them and I say to them great job and please always pass it on to keep it going for as long as possible...

I’ve always had a ton of respect for Japanese craftsmen. Not just woodworkers. Definitely true masters of their craft. Nice video.

One of the many things I like about Japanese culture, is that in a world full of cutting edge technology and progression, the artisan crafts still have a very important place and are widely revered. The Japanese have a definite appreciation for hand crafted goods which we seem to have lost in the west.

I've been working with wood for a long time, but, this level of skill is something to aspire to.

I am speechless, if i could spend the rest of my life watching a crafts man do these things i would be in my glory.

It was real pleasure to see how they work with wood. This is real state of art

My father returning from WW2. serving in Asia brought home a hand carved cigarette dispenser. He said the gentleman that made it snatched up the crating material that American forces were discarding were like gold to him. Yeah the dispenser was small and somewhat insignificant to the undiscerning eye but was a master piece of cabinet making on a tiny scale. Being somewhat of a carpenter myself, now I could watch this endlessly. Some of the joinery is mindblowing in complexity. We can all agree these people are artisans of the highest order. What I would give to actually live and work in a shop like any of these.

As a furniture maker, I've had some exchanges with woodworkers trained in sashimono. Even though it's not my area of expertise, I have found myself incorporating more and more of their no glue/no screws techniques. It makes the construction last longer, as it allows the wood to expand and contract with differences in moisture content.

I recently lost my uncle who was a carpenter for nearly 50 years. My god i wsh he had gotten the chance to visit Japan. So incredibly beautiful. Thank you so much. Domo arigato from 🇨🇦 😢😊 (edit fixed typo)

Some of the most beautiful craftsmanship I have seen. Absolutely amazing. A beautiful and highly respectable people. The Japanese are a great people no doubt.

As a Chinese, I am very appreciate this work. Japanese truly are talented students

Japanese are very smart people. God bless them. The world always needs their expertise.

I have always admired Japanese culture and noticed the structures that are built are more than just the building... They are a work of brilliance and in the art world each a masterpiece... A temple reflecting both craftsmanship and wonder using both carpentry skills and knowledge of sculpting abilities... Be blessed !

How life should be. Craftsman, craftswomen, and artists peacefully making the world a beautiful place.

@8:49 my favorite part so perfect the air pushes out the other drawers...this is supreme excellence.

Not only craftsmen but real artists !

8:50, holy shit, when its so much precision that the air behind pushes out the other boxes xO

They are the best chippies in the world....awesome. Just amazing skills and dedication, thank you for the pleasure to see these master craftsman at work.

I think the best part of woodworking is joinery making and fitting. It's very gratifying looking at your joint all set and almost perfect! Haha

"No nails were harmed in the making of this video."

Magnificent work by these Japanese "Craftsmen", they have been honing these skills for centuries, I imagine an unbelievable amount of "trail & error" went into the absolute end result of perfecting the 'carpentry techniques' and also the building/joinery techniques. I would say these guys are definitely PART OF A GUILD, where they have passed down the considerable knowledge from one generation to the next, carefully selecting trustworthy members of their guild, that will be loyal to their guild, that will keep the excruciatingly extracted knowledge within their group, those guild members FIRST LOYALTY is always to the GUILD & MEMBERS OF THE GUILD. That's how those guilds work, it's precisely the same CULTURE in the guilds of France and Spain, where they ceremoniously build their much loved buildings, Cathedrals, Museums & other "temples of culture". In the very sophisticated culture of Japan, they know very well that culture must be nurtured, culture must be invested in, invested into, it must be fed to survive & it must be protected to remain part of the culture. If for example the famed Japanese Guilds allowed a group of foreign mercenaries into their Guild, it would be only a small time frame before those mercenaries are passing all that accumulated knowledge back to the boondocks they came from, passing all those techniques back to the people they really care about, passing all the contacts that they have back to their OWN GUILD, which probably isn't called a guild, but can easily be defined as their very OWN CLIQUE, the people they have loyalty to, they also together with passing on contacts, they pass on the contracts that come with contacts, almost poetically stuck together like the nail-less Japanese carpentry. The END RESULT is the destruction of that Guild, as it has not been nurtured, it has not been protected, it has not been invested into, it was in fact leaked away into oblivion, all that knowledge, all those techniques that took forever to foster, are flung away into the abyss, thrown to the wolves, and the final result is that their hundreds of years of culture is absorbed by a systemic hex. When the people of these ancient Guilds select a person to carry on the precise and important work, they should be those people that are always dedicated to the culture of the Guild, the secrets of the Guild should be protected at all costs, and the very first loyalty of that person should always be to that Guild, and definitely not to some other source that has absolutely nothing in common with the Guild, whereas the foreign "infiltrator" ( notice the near perfection that infiltrator & traitor fit together seamlessly) these inserted and installed infiltrators are there specifically to GLEAN KNOWLEDGE from the Guild, and then pass on that knowledge their brethren back in the boondocks wherever they come from, these infiltraitor's are there to TRESPASS ALL OVER YOUR CULTURE & they're there to PASS ON THAT KNOWLEDGE BACK THEIR THEIR CLIQUE. *Noted: In fact the "End Result" is often a very sad outcome where some members of the installed/inserted infiltraitors work unceremoniously to DESTROY THE GUILD, and with the ultimately gleaned knowledge, techniques, contacts, contracts, and their own boondock goons ready to loony-tune, THEY SIMPLY REPLACE THE GUILD. SUCH IS THE PRACTICE OF FOREIGN CONQUEST, USUALLY INVOLVING THE ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR OWN ENEMIES CULTURE, AS THEY KNOW WITH INVESTED INTEREST, THAT CULTURE IS THE BACKBONE OF ANY PEOPLE, AND WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY THAT CULTURE, YOU HAVE GREATLY DIMINISHED THAT PEOPLES SPINE.

I'm a carpenter in the US I would love to spend just 6 months with these people and learn as much as I can.

Nada más bello en las maderas que las uniones sin clavos, pernos o fierros, felicitaciones, maravillosos trabajos

These people are doing masterpieces.

Patience, dedication, perfection.

Kongo Gumi(金剛組), a palace carpenter, is the oldest construction company in the world.

I think their work makes them happy and bring satisfaction. It'll surely be the case for me. Thank you

金剛組さんの仕事は見事としか言えないですね。 日本最古の企業で伝統をきちんと受け継がれている事に感服です

This is on another level, the Japanese culture always takes everything to the absolute perfection.

I'm a carpenter from France and I have absolute respect for Japenese skills and art !

Carpentry without using even a single nail. How amusing. Japanese woodworkers are awesome

when they show up wearing ninja boots, you know they mean business. That hidden dove-tail corner joint by the furniture maker (6:18) is awesome.

Not even on my best day can I even come close to what these dedicated craftsmen can do.

This guys are amazing professsional workers !

They never under estimate the smaller part of detail and quality, respect...

The first time I saw the way a well-made Japanese chest of drawers opens up from the air pressure of one drawer being closed I was in awe. Old techniques but incredible precision. Carpenters in Japan are diligent too. When I was getting my house built in Japan the framing was done incredibly quickly, and from there the carpenter did the rest by himself in a few days. I was surprised out how much he knocked out in a day.

日本の技術が海外の人の目にも届いて嬉しいです

spent several week in and around Kyoto which was wonderful.one day while walking I spied a NAIL, an iron nail used in a temporary safety railing on a construction project...it stuck out like a sore thumb.,

I like each every product made in Japan, you people are highly skilled carpenter s

Just awesome to watch!!

Podoba mi się dokładność , estetyka i precyzja ......jednym słowem , sztuka w drewnie ..

Artful craftsmanship

The fit on those draws, unbelievable!!

Amazing work! Much respect and admiration!

Very very nice. Thanks

These joints are joined by magicians. So relaxing to watch.

their woodworking is one of the finest arts

I thought I was a good carpenter , these guys are next level ! I would be like... "What do you think of the coffee table I built ? " Awkward silence as they stare at me blankly .

I am in awe of these skills.

*****ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT *****

They have some beautiful wood to work with - no particle boards in sight.

They are by far superior in carpentry then anywhere else in the world, and I don't mean superior by profession, but just take a look at how their work is still there after many years without splits or cracks and also there's no nails, it's amazing. It takes probably about 10 times longer to achieve this greatness and requires a lot more precision, but oh my god it's amazing and it comes from european guy so I'm completely non biased

Realmente un trabajo maravilloso, siempre he admirado el perfeccionismo Japonés

amazing technics !!!

Such craftsmanship and beauty.

This is amazing... A skill I hope to one day attain

you can spend a life time looking at this and it would not be a wasted life

Thank you

Very precise,will fit,practical and very neat wood craft.I like the way they he is doing it.

これぞ日本が誇る技術だな。 つい見入ってしまう

Crazy work.wood superhero!!!!

Japanesee carpenters are AMAZING !

Thank you Katsumoto, your craftsmsnship is gorgeous the best I have seen! It s great to use Bamboo as it grows so fast!

No screws? Wow that is amazing and the music 🎼 is lovely

Good old days will never come back

Impresionante da gusto ver lo que hacen !!!! espectacular no tengo palabras para describir el gusto que me da ve estos trabajos son lo más gracias por compartirlo éxitos !!!!!

Phenomenally honed craftsmanship

Hello from France, this vidéo and the channel are awesome and helps me a lot in these times! Thanks a lot

Dahshatnya skill japanese..i salute

Yesterday i've watch modern cnc machining by american and european, today when i saw this i realized that japanese are the winner of woodcraft world.

Japan is masterpiece in carpenters art...☝️

It is such a pleasure to watch real craftsmanship and you can tell that they are really serious about the quality of their works. and I believe all of this is in their blood, in their culture. It really put some of the butcher into shame.

Grabe Naman ang galing... Pasensya talaga ang puhunan dun Kasi antagal nun gawin eh.. kakabilib Naman tong mga hapon eh

Homie scribing that bamboo was so precise damn lol wanna make me a bamboo roll cage

the truth that I have no words .... what a talent my god

These carpenters are amazing!

Не всё потеряно, на земле ещё умеют работать руками!!!

Nice work

It's a master piece.

One must bow down in humility.

nice job sempai!

this is incredible woodworking, very nice, that is art!

Japanese always work with precision and perfection.

Incredible work

I few years ago I stated replacing my wood tools with Japanese ones mostly vintage, chisels and planes signed by the toolmaker famous for their technique. I make classic guitars by hand and some power tools. Although I love my Sweden tools, I can never go back to them.

Who in this world would give this a thumbs down maybe some very jealous carpenters

Super job

This is beutiful wood working ..i am also working constrution..but..this is great..so nice so delicate..much much respect from Croatia..love it..5 stars for you...

日本の建築技術の紹介ありがとうございます。

Good video 👍

We need specialist like you to rebuilt Notre Dame Cathedral roof!

Perfect, and very good.

Very good guys

Nice video!

Amazing

Big respect from Turkey

this can't be more handmade than it is

Imagine your construction teacher in GCSE's was Japanese and was pulling this madness. I'd actually want this as a jobe because it would inspire me to follow up with it and now all we do, in uk anyways, is DOVETAIL JOINT as the most advanced part of the four joint frame.