The Art of a Bamboo Craftsman
Saturday, April 29, 2017
A worker uses his chisel to cut in one of a pair of thick bamboos in a lumber yard in Tokyo. The bamboos are used as part of the stage settings in Kabuki plays, said Takashi Hoshino, a skilled worker for a lumber/bamboo company in the capital’s eastern city of Koto. In the world’s great city of Tokyo, it is a very rare scene that you can observe a craftsman in the works in the open air.

The bamboo yard in the photo is located near the Basho Memorial Museum in Koto City.
(by Kozo)
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