Ben Meader produced to following video of the Honryousen project we recently completed with Nakagawa san.

People often ask me what Japanese boatbuilders use as bedding or seam compound. Traditionally, many boatbuilders used raw lacquer, urushi…

He kneels in the shadow cast by the planking of the boat, bent over the fine, ink-soaked thread. The light is almost palpable in the dust-soaked atmosphere…