Shofuso Japanese Cultural Center

This guide to Shofuso Japanese Cultural Center in Philadelphia follows a wooden house built twice: first in a courtyard at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1954, then carried across the ocean and reassembled, joint by joint, in Fairmount Park. It traces carpenter Isao Okumura, who filmed the rebuild on an 8mm camera before the reels vanished into a family attic for decades, and the Japanese Americans, some who had lived behind barbed wire during the war, who later returned on weekends to save the house from ruin. Stand at the threshold and look up at the joints overhead, cut without a single nail.