A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

ah! Datang! Four directions, the Tang Dynasty where the King of Nine Lands came!

Xiaopingtai’s sigh today is over!

Uncle Tsunaliang's big house, supported by rolling logs, rolled dozens of meters from the compacted flat ground, attracting people from the inner city of the mountain to come and watch.

After all, you don’t see this kind of “diorama” every day, and you may not be able to see a Hikiya with your own eyes even once every few decades.

After a lot of pulling and pulling, the house was finally placed on the new foundation and it was ready to be settled again.

At this time, an ancient technique brought back by envoys from the Tang Dynasty was used. Later, this technique was also used when repairing famous buildings such as Sensoji Temple and Ise Jingu Shrine.

Pier connection!

I don’t know if anyone knows about the drainage problem of ancient houses. If the house is not built on high ground or drainage pipes are established, the house will be easily flooded.

Therefore, the Hemudu Culture, Majiabang Culture and Liangzhu Culture in southern my country have that kind of gantry-style architecture. Folk architecture similar to stilted buildings, bamboo buildings, and stilted buildings still exist today in many scenic spots in the south.

Eastern Japan, which is actually the northern region, has very heavy snow in winter and frequent typhoons and rains in summer. Japanese rivers have short runoff, and the water flow rises and falls sharply.

One word is - water!

What to do if there is too much water? Of course, build it higher!

Therefore, most of the houses in Dongguo are elevated, with wooden frames and floors usually built at a height of forty or fifty centimeters from the ground. The main reason is to waterproof and prevent the house from being soaked.

In this way, the house is protected from water damage, but what about the wooden pillars under the house?

The ground is originally dark and damp, and it is often soaked by heavy rain and snow. In ten or eight years, no matter how good the wood is, the bottom will be soaked to pieces, and the final result will be that the house collapses.

But the Japanese, among other things, have strong learning abilities. Their envoys to the Tang Dynasty discovered a method of architectural repair in China in the Tang Dynasty - Jin Lunji. 【Note 1】

According to the description, Kinrintsugi is an extremely complex mortise and tenon splicing structure. Through the combination of old and new wooden pillars, the two are integrated into one, no different from a complete wooden pillar.

Just saw off the corroded and decayed parts of the bottom wooden pillars, replace them with new ones of the same thickness and thickness, and use the joining method to integrate the two, perfectly solving the problem of the lower wooden pillars being damaged. The problem of sawing off also actually extends the life of the house.

Of course, the pier connection method is very rough. It is to use a chisel to carve out a complex concave and convex surface on the old and new wooden columns. The two concave and convex surfaces are cut together by gravity to ensure the integrity and firmness of the wooden columns.

Nowadays, the level of carpentry in Japan is even worse. Today's carpenters just cut a step-shaped opening. If the two wooden posts can be brought together, they will fall down. At worst, they will have to come back and replace them next year if they become unstable.

Whoever talks about "craftsmanship" should ask them to learn from their predecessors five hundred years ago or a thousand years ago. Those skills were really inferior to those of apprentices in ancient times.

In just ten days, Uncle Tsunaliang's house was perfectly relocated. Xiaopingtai continued to contribute money to help Uncle Tsunaliang build stables, rice warehouses and warehouses. The last step is to dig a pond and transplant the seedlings there. This is all laborious work. It is not a big problem and can be completed in three or two days. In less than half a month, a huge open space of nearly 2,000 square meters was opened for Xiaoping Space.

Everyone in Hikiya gratefully returned home with thirty taels of gold, and Kiso and Hida's carpenters were "invited" by Koheita again.

What came from Hida was a bald middle-aged man, probably middle-aged, but he just worked hard and looked old.

The great engineer's name was Denemon, and he didn't have the Miao character. It was obvious that his many years of carpentry career had not brought him any wealth. It gave him no chance to arm himself as a dutiful person, thus giving him the so-called Miao character.

"How big should Master Tanzheng's mansion be?" The old carpenter got straight to the point. He has skills and can survive anywhere, so there is no need to flatter others.

Koheita also heard people say that this old carpenter's skills were excellent, so he sent someone to bring him from Hida. It was normal for him not to look humble.

After all, it was "invited"!

"At least 150 tatami mats, and more than eight Japanese-style rooms. Each Japanese-style room should be eight tatami-sized. There should be a verandah, an earthen room, and preferably a small teahouse, a Buddhist hall and a small storage room.”

Xiao Pingtai wants a large flat floor of 300 square meters. This area is not large and will be enough.

"One hundred and fifty tatami mats? This is not cheap." Denemon began to think about it.

He quickly took out a piece of wood and drew a simple graphic design on it with a brush. 【Note 2】

Xiaopingtai doesn't understand graphic design at all. He believes in the level of craftsmen in this era. After all, those who are not skilled will starve to death. So it was up to Denemon to plan.

"Sir, I have something to say up front. You cannot point fingers or interfere with the construction during the construction, otherwise this little guy will not be able to take over." Denemon's face curled up.

"Okay." Xiao Pingtai agreed on his face, but he disagreed in his heart.

"I wonder what you should do with the wood? From a humble perspective, Kiso's is the best material at a close distance."

If you don’t have good wood for co-authoring, why don’t you do it? Mrs. Xiaoping thought the old man was very stubborn.

"Wood? Chen San, come here and make a list."

"There are some Noto cypresses, some Ou beech trees, some Hiroshima Daioh pine trees, some Tosa Shimanto River cypress trees, some Ene Tenryu cedar trees, some Sado Akao pine trees..." [Note 3]

"What else is missing? Denemon." Koheita reported a string of top-notch wood.

"This...sir! I must go all out for you!" Den'emon, who was stimulated by Heita's wealth, bowed his head.

This is probably the only time in his life that he can gather the best wood from all over Japan to build a house, so why not go all out?

[Note 1]: As far as the author knows, Jin Lun Ji has been completely lost in China, and the specific method is completely unknown. Over a thousand years, this technique was completely annihilated, and even the name was recorded by the Japanese.

However, the Japanese learned only the most superficial part of the pier connection in the past. I don’t know if the essence part was not learned or the learned part was not preserved. How should I put it, it makes me sigh with sadness and a little bit happy at the same time, the emotions are very complicated.

[Note 2]: The floor plan is normal, nothing surprising. The Nagano Prefectural Government’s Local Cultural Center has a collection of a house design in Kiso Fukushima Town nearly three hundred years ago.

However, due to the long time, it was covered with dust, and the design drawing below could only be seen clearly with special instruments. But I was afraid that the dust would wipe off the ink stains, so even if I saw the original thing, it would still be a dark and rotten wooden board.

[Note 3]: I didn’t want to pay attention to it at first, but I was afraid that someone would ask what the different levels of wood are and how they are built.

Beech is suitable for main columns, cypress is suitable for frames, pine is suitable for rafter beams, cypress is suitable for placement in humid bathrooms or saunas, fir is suitable for floors, and chestnut is suitable for eaves.

The specific reasons are all determined by the characteristics of the wood itself. It would take tens of thousands of words to list them one by one. Those who are interested can search it on their own without going into details.