Amazaki Fisherman's Cottage Update #002 !
On 23 April 2025, the building team at Yasaki Kogyo removed the 100-year-old roof tiles from our Amazaki cottage. It was an amazing and surreal experience to see how kominaka tiles used to be laid - with literal dirt and clay plastered between the tiles and underlying Sugi planks, to provide thermal insulation.
We will reuse these heirloom tiles after repairing the roof and waterproofing and sealing it with waterproof sheeting and fresh insulation boards. Many thanks to the Yasaki team for being careful and scrubbing each tile clean, piece by piece - there must have been a thousand tiles!
This is the second video that we have done on this particular project on Omishima, Ehime on the Shimanami Kaido islands. We are proceeding along smoothly with other projects as well, but this one will serve as baseline for our financial forecasts and timelines.
Right now, we're just every excited to be going down once every month or so to follow the progress, talk to contractor team (and spend some time at the beautiful beaches of Omishima while we're at it.) Come along on our journey of giving new life to Amazaki Cottage and other projects around Japan.