Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in bioarchitecture because the carbonized layer protects the wood from water, fire, insects ...

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I am baffled by the recent move to claim this technique is japanese / invented in the recent centuries. Humans charred wood for strength at least 400k years ago, and the only reason that number isn't ...