Met History wrote:

> ...in the original Clark apartment of the Dakota (the Clarks built the
> Dakota in 1884).
>
> I can't transcribe Mr. Assistant's unpronounceable name, but he told
> me that in Japan they traditionally char the outside of their
> wood-sided houses to reduce rot and waterproof the wood.  I couldn't
> quite get why it works, since my Japanese is as rusty as a beached LST
> on Iwo Jima.
>
> I wondered it was chemical, physical, metaphysical or inscrutable.
>
> Christopher

This we can look into.

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