>The Japanese believe that what's important to keep is the knowledge and the craft - how to build the things. The actual buildings aren't important - the histor

>The Japanese believe that what's important to keep is the knowledge and the craft - how to build the things. The actual buildings aren't important - the history is in the craft, not in the buildings themselves. There was an NHK program I saw recently that interviewed a carpenter who specialized in temple construction (I think he built a store front for a restaurant shown on the program, but I can't find it). I was wondering how that could ever be enough work to live off of. But now it makes sense.