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A central idea in the excerpt is that the Japanese art of boat building may be lost to future generations. The underlined
detall shapes this idea by showing that the system for learning Japanese boat building is too
for modern
students, which means that future generations
excerpt from School of Hard Knots
by Alex Hanson
The typical apprenticeship with a Japanese traditional
boatbuilder lasts six years, during which an apprentice can
expect to spend a lot of time sweeping the shop floor and
sharpening tools while watching the master ply his trade. Work
Is conducted in silence, questions are answered elliptically, if at
all, and, by the end, the master will have withheld key pieces of
knowledge that the apprentice is expected to acquire through
guile or outright theft.
Even in Japan, where traditional crafts are revered this system
is too grueling too much at odds with modern life, to survive. It
Is no wonder, then, that as a generation of Japanese
boatwrights has retired, their knowledge has retired with them
Vermont boatbuilder Douglas Brooks is trying to ensure that
the centuries-old designs for fishing boats and water taxis don't
follow these craftsmen to the grave.
For more than two decades, Brooks has researched traditional
boatmaking in Japan, and has done short, nontraditional
apprenticeships to record boat designs. Ordinarily, no
Westerner would have a hope of learning in a few weeks what
usually takes years of patient observation to acquire.
This article was first published in May June 2013 issue of
Humanities, which is published by the National Endowment for
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