East Wind (Higashi Kaze), Inc.
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Traditional Japanese architecture, adapted to meet western architectural expectations.
East Wind is led by Len Brackett, who trained as a temple carpenter in Kyoto. While traveling through Japan in the 1970s, Brackett serendipitously met an abbot at a temple in Kyoto. After uncovering Brackett’s interest in carpentry, the abbot connected him with a group of very skilled and gentle local craftsmen. Brackett spent the next 5 years apprenticing alongside them. Len Brackett on his property in Nevada City, California. The Japanese hand plane produces a very thin shaving which leaves an impossibly smooth finish. Temple carpentry, along with tea house carpentry, is considered the…
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