Antiques - Art - Ceramics - Murals - Paint
Feb. 26 Palace Built with 85, 000 matchsticks. Kiyoshi Yamamoto age 65, a retired Tokyo businessman has infinate patience and a steady hand. He has just put the finishing touches to a model of the Katsura Rikyu Palace of Kyoto, Japan's most historic building and national treasure, which he built with 85, 000 matchsticks during 4 years, working several hours daily. To obtain every possible details of the old palace, Yamamoto took scores of photographs, measurements, and eve hired a plane to obtain birds eye view photographs before starting on the model. He admits that he cut his fingers a few times paring down matchsticks to 0.1 mms. Five years ago he completed a model of the House of Parliament in London with 50, 000 matchsticks, exact in every detail, and scale. Photo: Kiyoshi Yamamoto puts the finishing touches to the model of the Katsura Rikyu Palace of Kyoto, Japan at his home in Setagaya, Tokyo
