We recently watched a fascinating documentary about Kumamoto Castle on the Curiosity Stream channel.
This impressive Japanese dwelling for six generations of Japanese monarchy has survived battles, earthquakes . . and more earthquakes, the most recent by another Kumamoto Earthquake in 2016. The last quake unearthed unexpected damage to the building, to the point of where rescue teams feared that it may collapse again. Luckily, they have been steadily working to lessen that chance.
What came out of the work is that some building survived better than others. They narrowed down the focus to the way some of the stone walls around the building had angular cuts to the stone, rather than just horizontal cuts. They soon realised that this was not an accident, but by the clever and scientific work of the ancestors.
Read more courtesy of the Castle Kumamoto website.
