Japanese wood joinery house framing

Hi everyone! Considering the wood species available in Europe, which ones would be suitable for Japanese wood joinery house framing 🙄



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Sorry your question isn't getting any responses.  I saw the original post but had nothing to offer.  I think this topic requires two pretty specific sets of knowledge, and although I think there are folks here who know a fair bit about European tree species, but I think relative to most of the building techniques considered here Japanese woodworking is a "high art" - revered but not practiced.

I hope you can find a community or other source of appropriate knowledge.  And please, share back!  You never know what might happen to the seed you plant!

Same here, i saw it, thought hope someone will know...
Happens sometimes.
People are very busy.
What is the wood Japanes use? And what kind of properties does that have?
That's where i would start personally.

When i did some reading up on beam and pole building for my own project , some of it was about the japanese methods and timber used ---but way beyond my skill --so i used rough sawn timbers and logs for framework but the tree species for timber is very restricted around my part of the world--and quality stuff is very expensive--so most of what i used was sitka spruce --very coarse and with the odd red pine and larch log---all rough and ready stuff . The japanese sites mentioned working with their local types of red pine ,black pine ,cedar and cypress ---all fine grained and high quality.

I wouldn't know myself but I know where you could find out. There is a Facebook group called "Building and Renovating houses in Japan" or something like that. I guarantee someone there will know. I do know that a lot of the quality wood that used to be used a long time ago isn't available anymore so.

Of course that is if you are on facebook. Its very useful for learning things but of course there is the ethical dilemma of it being Facebook.

Most wood houses in Japan are made with Sugi, which is the local variety of cedar, and sometimes Hinoki, which is the local variety of cypress. Both are softwoods that don't experience a lot of seasonal movement. They're lightweight and relatively fast growing thus very economical for building.

Following up on my answer, since I started wondering when Hinoki is used over Sugi. Seems like Hinoki is actually slow-growing and probably a bit heavier. The wikipedia article says it's been used for temples and such, which makes sense in retrospect. A bit less economical but more durable.

At any rate, it seems like both cedar and cypress are available throughout parts of Europe, so maybe go with whichever is more available and economical.