Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
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Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
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Re: Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
#2Similar to coppicing! Or maybe a regional specialization of coppicing?
Trees are incredibly resilient organisms, and producing products like this from them is such a great lost art.
Re: Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
#3> A similar technique is also used in other parts of the world, such as the UK, but under the name Coppice and Pollarding. While the technique is similar, it's not exactly the same, as daisugi only works with seedlings from a specific mutant cedar in a specific location in Kyoto.
Dang, that's a shame.
Re: Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
#4Without cutting DOWN trees. I was trying to guess how they could grow square trees.
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#5Youtube video is bad, there's no video to see how things are really done.
Re: Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
#6> A similar technique is also used in other parts of the world, such as the UK, but under the name Coppice and Pollarding. While the technique is similar, it's not exactly the same, as daisugi only works with seedlings from a specific mutant cedar in a specific location in Kyoto. Dang, that's a shame.
It’s the champagne of pollarding
Re: Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
#7>This is an ancient method, developed in the 14th century
Isn't it interesting, how most of the history of East Asia just has label "ancient" slapped onto it in pop-culture?
Re: Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
#8>This is an ancient method, developed in the 14th century Isn't it interesting, how most of the history of East Asia just has label "ancient" slapped onto it in pop-culture?
In western pop culture you mean. I'm sure Japanese people have similar ways of referring to Western history.
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#9Does the Japanese government pay for or in some way support articles like this?
Do people in Japan get articles about how amazing coppicing is in the UK?
Articles like this about Japan make me feel a bit weird but I kind of wish we were better at fetishising our own produce and practices like we do with the Japanese.
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#10How much timber can be made this way (including similar methods like coppicing)?
Is it enough to contribute a noticeable amount to the modern timber industry? Or is it more of a "huh that's cool" conversation topic?