Asian Cultural Center of VT presents Douglas Brooks on Japanese Boat Building Traditions

Asian Cultural Center of Vermont presents JAPANESE BOAT BUILDING TRADITIONS, Friday evening, January 25, at 7 pm. A slide talk and demonstration, with scale models, and building materials to examine. Douglas Brooks, boat builder, writer and researcher, builds a variety of traditional wooden boats and has apprenticed under four master builders in Japan in a traditional Japanese craft that apparently is dying out for lack of apprentices to continue the tradition. Brooks, who is fluent in Japanese, has been to Japan 12 times. The boats and their uses offer a view of traditional Japanese seafaring life on a remote and romantic island off the coast of Honshu. His book, The Tub Boats of Sado Island: A Japanese Craftsman’s Methods will be available for sale. A review of this book is an Acrobat PDF file at www.jpf.go.jp/e/publish/jfn/pdf/jfn30_4.pdf. This event (1/25/08) is free and open to the public with donations welcome to provide an honorarium to the presenter and towards event expenses of the Cultural Center. For further information, visit www.douglasbrooksboatbuilding.com.