Izumi Kyouka’s The Saint of Mt. Kouya/Holy Man of Mt. Kouya aka the happy boss rush map. A fla
Izumi Kyouka’s The Saint of Mt. Kouya/Holy Man of Mt. Kouya aka the happy boss rush map. A flashy book for a flashy(?) story with lush descriptions about a travelling monk running into all sorts of strange things. Due to its length, regular double-sided signatures were used, and since Izumi’s said to be a very Japanese writer, I went with retchoso or tetsuyousou binding which is believed to have no Chinese counterpart. Apparently some binders use four needles at once for this method @_@. Couldn’t figure out how to get a nice tight binding, but it’s still very sturdy. Maybe the signatures need to be pressed for longer? The book lies open completely flat, so I reused the margin settings from Tokuda’s.Resources/tutorials used:http://www.intangible.org/Features/koya/koyahome.html - Full text of the storyhttp://gatzbcn.blogspot.ca/2013/03/japanese-bookbinding-tutorial-tutorial.htmlhttp://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~dawe5/bookbinding_pages/BB_sewn2.htmlhttps://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/preservation/2014/02/10/discovering-a-retchoso-sewn-book-on-my-desk-via-asian-collectionsNext up should be Miyazawa Kenji’s Night on the Galactic Railway. Sorry Kyouka, but I couldn’t find anything of Kouyou-sensei that’s suitable. -- source link
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