2019 Volume 84 Issue 763 Pages 1979-1986
This paper treats how carpentry techniques were diffused and accumulated in the history of architectural production. The author argued in his previous paper that full use of a regional network of people, goods, and information enabled a Toryo master carpenter to organize and manage a construction project. He also proposed that the transition of Toryo master carpenters could be organized into three periods of establishment, growth, and expansion. This paper thus aimed to reinforce such way of understanding Toryo master carpenters and to pursue historical factors of the transition of the Toryo master carpenters.
Specifically, Washimiya village and Koga-jokamachi castle town were focused on to investigate the carpenters in each area. Consequently, it was understood that the transition of carpentering happened as a process of equalization of architectural production in the village and the town. In other words, such change in situation allowed more carpenters to work on an equal basis. This change also forced the carpenters to get necessary elements by themselves to gain and achieve a project. It was conceivable that such a situation made carpentry techniques to be diffused and accumulated in specific areas and families.
