Japanese joinery: DoubleQuoting with wooden blocks

[ by Charles Cameron — elegant simplicity & exquisite complexity together in a terrific niche blog I now follow ]

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From the elegantly simple:

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— The Joinery (@TheJoinery_jp) April 15, 2016

to the exquisitely complex:

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— The Joinery (@TheJoinery_jp) May 17, 2016

Japanese joinery has dozens of ways of associating one physical object with another, as brilliantly illustrated in dozens of tweets in The Joinery’s blog:

The complete 3D guide to joinery. The joinery design made with Fusion360.

One of my own aims has been to generate — or begin the generation of — a similar anthology of “DoubleQuotes” illustrating the methods of associative connection available in the realms of language and the aural and visual arts.