Kanawa Pencase - KOITOYA Woodworking Class 2027

Kanawa Pencase

This is a 2 day course, 

$595

15-16 May Sat - Sun

Our new workshop program with award winning design item by Masashi Kutsuwa.

Beginners welcome. 

Rich in special skill experience and cultural knowledge for intermediate woodworkers.

Based on traditional "Kanawa Tsugi", Japanese saw, chisel, plane works. 

Content

Making Pencil / pen case, with inspiration from "Kanawa-Tsugi" joints.

Well suited for beginners.

Well suited for people who loves Japanese carpentry joinery. 

Well suited for people who love beautiful craft.

Kanawa-Tsugi

Kanawa Tsugi was developed as carpenters sought mechanically locked scarfs Joints for temple and shrine work. Carpenters rely on it for lengthening roof beams and repairing rotted posts where a simple scarf would fail under bending. The joint appears in major restoration projects across Japan, where identical geometry on both halves allows a splice to slide together in confined spaces beneath the structure.
   

Designed by Masashi Kutsuwa in 2007, award winning design

This pen case is award winning piece by Masashi Kutsuwa in Takaoka craft Competition in 2008.

One of 3 different deisgns all inspired from Japanese traditional joinery.

About Masashi Kutsuwa

 Designer of "Kanawa" Pen Case

Professor of woodwork at Gifu Academy of Forest Science and Culture 

Representative Director of Ginowa (General incorporated association)

Masashi is not just a very good designer & maker in Japan, he is also actively working for social purposes.
After working as a director in the NHK news department (8 years), training in woodworking in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture (2 years), and working as a furniture craftsman in the UK (5 years), he has been a teaching woodwork at  Gifu Academy of Forest Science and Culture since 2006. His unique approach towards education led to introducing and blossoming successful Green Woodworking activities in Japan.  He is involved in international exchange in the field of woodworking, including inviting overseas woodworkers to Japan for lectures and planning, managing, and interpreting for lectures overseas by Japanese woodworkers. He is involved in the preservation and transmission of traditional crafts and cultural assets in Gifu Prefecture, such as training successors to make cormorant baskets for the Nagara River cormorant fishing, securing materials for Gifu Japanese umbrellas (Egonoki Project), recording the manufacturing techniques for cormorant fishing boats, and securing boat carpentry tools. He founded Ginowa after visiting and interviewing blacksmiths who make tools all over Japan as a researcher for the Gifu Prefecture Cultural Heritage Division's "Project to Preserve and Pass on Tools that Support Craftsmanship" for five years starting in 2019.

Books: "Van Gogh's Chair," "Green Woodwork," "Green Woodwork Revised and Expanded Edition," and "Making Chairs with Green Woodwork."
Link

https://www.forest.ac.jp/english/https://www.instagram.com/ginowa_/

We will be donating 5% of the sales to Ginowa Organization, Masashi's traditional craft conservation activities.

You will gain the following from signing up

1. "Kanawa" Pencase, all made by yourself by hand.

2. Hands-on Japanese saw, Japanese plane experience. 

3. Hands-on Japanese chisel experience with fine cutting and fitting.

Dates (1 occasion)

15-16 May (Sat~Sun)

Time

9:00-12:00 + 13:00-16:00, 6 hours

* Please be flexible for your schedule after the class. Sometimes your project requires extra time to finish.

Proposed schedule

Day 1 

AM: Lecture. Prepare the timber to glue up.

PM: Shaping and roughing out with router

Day 2

AM: Hand shaping with planes and chisels

PM: Hand shaping. Butterfly joint.

Lecturer

Hiroshi Yamaguchi (KOITOYA Design/Make/Teach)

More than 30 years of experience. Learned in Takayama, Japan.

About Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Fee

$595

Class size

Maximum 10

Location

Koitoya Design/Make/Teach (Fyshwick, ACT)

Address

4/18 Maryborough Street, Fyshwick ACT 2609

Parking

Please park your car in the public parking area along Maryborough Street (Free), opposite from MW Toolbox and J Racing

We have two parking spots officially. Please contact me for the spot if you need to walk less for a health condition.

Way to the workshop

18 Maryborough Street is a battle axe block, behind some other businesses, so you will be walking through the driveway that leads to the block from Maryborough Street.

There are two access driveways, one next to Aqua Safe Water Filters, and one next to J Racing.

Unit 4 is the blue building on the right-hand end of the block (SE end).

Things to bring

Please wear working shoes.

Bring your own water bottle and lunch.

Things to be supplied

Tea and coffee, snacks, filtered water

Refund Policy

Personal cancelation

Refunds up to 14 days before event

Humanitix fee is nonrefundable.

for more information, please contact Hiroshi

koitoya@gmail.com / 0412340619