If you ask people of most ages and societies how they get their wood, there will only be one answer. That is to cut down trees. Therefore, it is natural that attention is paid to the lumbering method used to make trees stand. Something like this happened Too biga 600-year-old Japanese technology, was previously introduced on Open Culture. Leaf of Life video above “The specially planted cedar trees are severely pruned. Think of them as giant bonsai,” he explains. Although these operations are carried out every other year, “harvesting takes 20 years, and older trees grow up to 100 new shoots at a time,” producing stronger and more flexible wood.
One might imagine that such an unusual cultivation method must have arisen under unusual circumstances. As explained in the video, Daisugi was originally invented in the western Japan region of Kitayama, well south of the Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara metropolitan areas.
Kitayama’s arborists developed this planting method, which allows them to “reduce the number of plantations, speed up the harvest cycle, and produce denser wood” in the face of a lack of seedlings and flat terrain. Demand for it was due in no small part to the fashion of the 14th century elite. Sukiya stylean elegant form of residential architecture that is a significant extension of the traditional Japanese tea room.
For a more detailed, or rather trunk and branch, explanation of how Taisugi is done, see below. Video above from Roji Gardening. The first thing you need is Cedar also known as a tree Cedar Or the sequoia grows quickly and everything is fine. Once the trees reach 6 to 7 meters (6 to 7 meters), which takes many years, “they will do things that Western gardeners never dreamed of.” The trunk is cut to a height of 0.5 meters, the remaining branches are pruned, and the remaining “platform seeder” is used to grow buds. Continue to regularly prune the series of “perfectly vertical” new trunks they grow, eventually removing all but the top 30 centimeters of each. In 10 years, we’ll not only have good quality wood for our needs, but we’ll also have “an ever-changing and interesting statement tree.” What’s more, it looks like something out of a Ghibli movie.
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