[Griff]

I read a great book on Japanese carpentry a few years back. The writer was an American who studied carpentry under a master, while he was engaged in building a temple. The intensity with which they approached their craft was amazing, years devoted to menial labor as they work their way up to actually sawing wood. Of course its a dying art in modern go go Japan. Their view of life and work was most sanish, most sanish indeed.