Heinouchi Yoshimasa (平内吉政) was a famous master

carpenter Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed is the cutting, shaping and installation of building materials during the construction of buildings, ships, timber bridges, concrete formwork, etc. Carpenter ...

Edo-period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

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, and was the progenitor of a long line of master carpenters. In 1608 he wrote the Shoumei (匠明) manual of construction and building design, with the help of his son Masanobu. This book is the most famous of early works on Japanese building construction.

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