Japanese Handsaws: The Maebiki Ooga 前挽大鋸
A famous blockprint by Hokusai titled "Mount Fuji Seen from the Mountains of Totomi," showing a crew of sawyers rip-sawing a timber into boards using maebiki ooga saws, one man on top and one underneath. Notice a third man to the left sitting under the timber sharpening another saw, perhaps his own or that of…
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