The word wahon refers to a variety of traditional books produced in Japan until the late nineteenth century. This history examines how they changed over the centuries as technology advanced and ...

To his publishers, at least, the book set Tasaki up as “the principal interpreter of present-day Japan to the United ... Ko-ume, the gorgeous and traditional geisha, can’t hope to land Minoru ...

A new venture is underway to reproduce these brittle and fragile books, of which no other copies exist. The history of "wahon" began close to 1,400 years ago when Japan learned papermaking and ...

The recommended books are all available in English ... Born in 1925, he fuses traditional Japanese sentiment with Western-style writing. He is most famous for The Temple of the Golden Pavilion ...