Yosegi

Yosegi is a traditional Japanese woodworking technique of making beautiful designs on wooden objects. It's like a puzzle where different pieces of wood are arranged in a specific beautiful pattern to make something cool like boxes, frames, and puzzles.

Imagine you have different colored blocks, and you want to make a picture with them. You could just stack them on top of each other, but that's boring. Instead, you could put them in a certain order so that they make a pattern, like a checkerboard or stripes. That's what yosegi is like - but with wood!

The woodworkers use special kinds of wood with different colors and grains, and they cut the wood into thin strips. Then they arrange these strips in a specific pattern, so they fit perfectly together like a jigsaw puzzle. They glue the pieces together and cut them again to make a solid block of wood with a beautiful design on the outside.

It's like taking a bunch of puzzle pieces and putting them together to make a pretty picture that you can touch and feel. Yosegi is a traditional art form that requires a lot of patience and skill, but it's also really fun and rewarding!