These floors were cool - as you walked across them they would squeak like a bird.  The idea was to guard the palace interiors by making walking across the floor impossible. i want hear one sing bob Monday, July 3rd, 2006 at 19:49:18 Goto this website to hear a Nightingale Floor Sing http://www.theotori.com/BookTwo/qna.asp Andrew Thursday, July 13th, 2006 at 10:58:47 How do you make a nightingale floor? Christine Tuesday, February 6th, 2007 at 05:10:14 Isn't it normal for a wooden floor to squeak if we step on it? Rio Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 03:00:57 Wooden floors here squeak sometimes. These floors squeaked (softly) with every step you took. I think our floors squeak because of wood rubbing on nails. In Japan (at this time) much of the building was done without nails. Making a floor that would squeak (intentionally or otherwise) took some doing. John John Harvey Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 23:06:07 I've been reading this book, In Darkness, Death. And it talk about these alot I think there cool shogun Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 at 14:18:03 I just went there yesterday... one of the people working there told me they built the floors to squeak by putting "cramps" in between the boards and the wooden supports, so there is actually space under the floorboard. You bend it more when you step on it. He gave me a flyer that illustrated it and everything... I don't know what the cramps are made of though, it didn't say. Andrea Monday, March 17th, 2008 at 14:47:25

Date:	Tuesday, April 18th, 2000
Film:	Fuji Nexia APS 400 (print)
Lens:	28-70mm f/2.8 ED-IF AF-S Zoom-Nikkor
Tag:	architectural decoration, Japan, castle
Larger Image:	857 x 1500