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Issue No: 306, January 2015

Kenji’s Woodwork

The undisputed master of Auroville woodworking is Japanese Aurovilian Kenji Matsumoto. But it was by chance, he says, that woodworking became his profession. For his first love was the sea and his wooden yacht, and for many years he sailed around the world. Then a hurricane struck and wrecked his boat. “I had no money to pay a professional shipbuilder, and so I was forced to do all repairs myself,” he says. It took him a year. But the job not only taught him the love of wood but also showed him his path: to become a professional woodworker. Back in Japan Kenji took up a carpentry apprenticeship. Japan has a rich tradition of woodworking, stemming from a deep love of and respect for wood as a living organism. Several master craftsmen taught him how to choose and read the wood; how to measure, plan, sketch and execute designs; how to do precision work within an 1/1000th error margin; and, most importantly, how to reveal the hidden beauty of wood and ...
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Issue No. 306, January 2015

  • Growing timber and firewood for Auroville
  • Kenji’s Woodwork
  • Aurorachana
  • Prakrit
  • Woodscapes
  • Reflections on a feedback process
  • The Auroville Statistics Initiative
  • Villages clean-up
  • Kindling the Viewless Fire
  • Combatting alcoholism
  • The Odd Couple
  • Prema (Passing)
  • We have a Working Committee
  • Population statistics 2014
  • Veenapani Chawla (Passing)
  • New Dawn Carpentry

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