Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Where is the Dojo?

Ok here are the latest updates.

We finished working last night at 19:30 PM. The work done last week went like this.

Monday: Apply the grout on the floor and patch the holes and imperfections in the wall. Then we went to go get the wood,  this was also time consuming since we had to hand select each pieces and calculate a lot so that we could save some money without compromising the ned product. What was also a bugger is that we had to select types of lumber that would need as less modifications as possible to be within Japanese standards lumbers shape size etc.

Tuesday: Final calculation and planning then we attacked the main tokonoma which is goint to be used as the main altar.

Wednesday: More shopping for wood and work on the structure of the main altar.

Thursday: We finished the structure of the main altar. Now all the is needed is apply the wood covering stain adn varnish to it. Here is a picture of the finished structure. The central panel is a hidden door that leads to a storage space.

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/338077

So basically next week what needs to be done is the wood ceiling, side walls beams and jointery and thesmaller tokonoma in the back. From the input of denis all should be finished including applying stain and varnish by Friday. All the will be left at that time will be small details.

Ok it's now 23:38 here in Montreal and we finished our work day on the Dojo.

The beams are now all in place and  the next step will be to apply the stain.

Here are the latest pics.


http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/340161

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/340158

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/340157

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/340156

So here we are. All the beams on the wall have been done and the frame of the ceiling has also been applied. We had also some time to put 3 coats of luster free varnish on all that wood. Now what need to be done os cover the chip boards with real wood, apply the square maple boards on the ceiling to cover it then all that would be left is the painting job. so we are pretty optimistic that all will be done by the end of next week.

Here are the latest pics of the job.

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/341236

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/341237

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/341238

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/341240

Ok here we are with a finished Dojo. All that is left is to put the small doors at the bottom of the main altar (Still waitng for the door handles to come from Japan so this is why they are not put in yet) and install the hanging lamp instead to the standard light bulb. But all in all I am glad to say that it is finished all the furniture has been put in and little by little I will populate the top of the walls with framse etc that I have.

So here are the final pictures of the whole thing.

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/354577

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/354575

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/354580

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/354574

http://shunpukandojo.gaia.com/photos/view/354579

Last edited by Gishin (2008-04-02 09:14:48)

Thank you for the kind words Kiku!

It is a small basement dojo but it does fill a void in the region since there was no Suizen dojo previous to this one. I hope that this will motivate others in the region to create something bigger than mine so that more people can be introduced to Shakuhachi and Japanese culture.

Job well done Gishin.

There are many "shakuhachi dojos" around but this one really LOOKS like a shakuhachi dojo!