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Refuse the reproduction of the photograph. |
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Peel the outside of the paulownia log, and see the place where lumber does a Japanese harp(KOTO). Fukushima Prefecture Yanaizu-machi |
Give the mark to do lumber on the both sides of the log if you decide the place to take a Japanese harp(KOTO). Fukushima Prefecture Yanaizu-machi |
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Cut a log in accordance with the line.Any more, it can't turn back. Fukushima Prefecture Yanaizu-machi |
A pattern is put with the lumber machine only for the Japanese harp(KOTO), and lumber does a cut log in the form of the Japanese harp(KOTO).It is at the time of the pleasure if the grain which is good for the surface of the Japanese harp(KOTO) how appears!! Fukushima Prefecture Yanaizu-machi |
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This period which dries it naturally for 3-5 years cracks, and the thing which doesn't become a Japanese harp(KOTO) comes out, too. Fukushima Prefecture Yanaizu-machi |
Shave the outside of the material which dried, an inside. Sound depends on this grade. Fukushima Prefecture Yanaizu-machi |
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A reverse side board is glued. Make a Japanese harp flat. Fukushima Prefecture Yanaizu-machi |
Burn a completed armor with the trowel Fukushima Prefecture Yanaizu-machi (Photographer Kazuto Nakazato ) |
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Polish a burned armor with UDUKURI. Fukushima Prefecture Yanaizu-machi (Photographer Kazuto Nakazato ) |
By the package board (RED thunder), a part for the decoration, in such cases as ENOME which does preparation for the making decoration, SIBUROKU, KASIWABA. |
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Difference characteristics appear in the form of this which ENOME is put in by the craftsman.Long ago, a craftsman's name was understood in this shape. |
Cut down the space of ENOME's of the both sides, the part which SIBUROKU goes through. |
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Put KASHIWABA while you glue emome and dries. |
TAMABUCHI (It grows besides semicylindrical.) was about to be put. |
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Put SHIBUROKU.It is seeming to be a Japanese harp(KOTO). |
It is NEKOASI of RED. Take one set in the up-down diagonal. |
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A part installs it. (Put it so that there may not be a gap.) |
A part installs it. |
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A part installs it. |
Make KUCHIMAE. (After this, put ZESTU.).Next, put NEKOASI, KAMIASI. |
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Even the completion of putting a base seat in the bottom (the right) of KASHIWABA is a little more. |
Install the tongue which a lacquer picture went into. |
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Put the metal fittings which let through a strings of KOTO. |
Tighten a strings of KOTO. |
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Play the completed Japanese harp(KOTO), and it is an end in this that it has a tone ascertained. |
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