Craftsmanship in Wood

I was studying an article on the Japanese layout method called sumitsuke which seems to mean "ink placing" or simply " inking". Furthermore, this method was also called "centerline and square rule". I wasn't aware that the Japanese had a square rule method, yet i suppose it is implied due to the snapping of vertical and horizontal lines. I am wondering how this method deals with that slightly out of square piece in the layout method. Do the daikusan square the member at the notch and perform a system of mapping timbers?

Before I answer, might you say which article you have been reading, and who wrote it? is it out of an old TF Journal?

The journal is entitled: Timber Frame Joinery and Design. Vol. 2 Its a TFG publication and the author is Micheal D. Anderson.

Yes, that article came out in an early TF Journal, in three parts. They simply re-published it in a later book.

I'll re-read it and get back to you.

Thanks.