Almost every culture around the world has used wood as a building material at some point, you just chop down a tree and voila! But the Japanese culture has its roots in harmony and balance, so rather than just kill a tree, they farm it and harvest it! This technique is called Daisugi.

The technique was developed back in the 14th century in the region of Kitayama.
Wood was in high demand but there wasn't enough flat land to grow it on so tree farmers or Niwashi came up with a technique similar to the bonsai technique.

By pruning the mother cedar tree heavily, they encouraged tall thin saplings to shoot upward, these saplings were either planted elsewhere or cultivated on the mother tree.

Old mother trees can be hundreds of years old and are capable of growing a hundred shoots at one time, these shoots are pruned every 3 to 4 years to keep the timber straight and knot-less and after 20 years the timber can be harvested.

Thanks to Daisugi, the timber harvested is not only long and straight, which is ideal for building with, but it's twice as strong and 140% more flexible than standard cedarwood.

Although nowadays, thanks to architectural advancements this wood isn't in such high demand, it is still used for posts, furniture, and even chopsticks, not to mention its alien-like beauty is highly coveted for ornamental gardens.

Whether you like this timber or not, or whether you appreciate this technique or not, you have to admit, that something magical happens when mankind "guides" nature instead of trying to "control" it!

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