The Black Wood Between the Bricks

The Black Wood Between the Bricks

Wood blocks were used as interior finishing material to allow screws and nails to be used on a waist-high partition wall, for example. These were called “moku-renga(wooden bricks).” The reason the wooden bricks in the museum are black is that the station building was bombed during the WWII on May 25, 1945 and the heat from the resulting fire carbonized the wood.