Thank you for sharing this.🙏 The process is quite fascinating! This is a great example of low-time preference behavior... 😄 Apparently it takes 20 years to produce a piece of lumber this way, but you can continue to produce a new crop every 20 years for hundreds of years.🤔🧐 I found a much more detailed description of how this works here:

Lampoon Magazine

The 600-year-old guide to Japanese sustainable forestry: Daisugi method

The ancient Japanese art of pruning and harvesting, Daisugi, translated as platform cedar – it started in the 14th century, and it has being mode...