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Ep. 328: Where is Rhino River?

Tedorigawa Bookmakers

Bookbinding First, you need to know what Rhino is in Japanese. It’s Sai with the kanji being 犀. River in Japanese is kawa with the corresponding kanji being three vertical lines: 川. Together Sai and Kawa is pronounced Saigawa. The Saigawa is one of the two major rivers running through Kanazawa (the other being the Asanogawa which means Shallow River, and it is.) That means the Saigawa can be translated as Rhino River. The Rhino River I made is an A6-size, 120-page, link stitch-bound blank notebook

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Ep. 326: Apple Kayak Summer. What?

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2026/01/31

BookbindingI made a 100-page, A6-size blank notebook that I christened Apple Kayak Summer. As in the last book I made, this one, too, uses the French link stitich. Both the front and back covers are collages. The front collage has two people. One is the mayor of Kanazawa who is running for another term. He’s dressed in a somber, politically-attractive suit and a grin. The other person is from an advertisement for a funeral home. She’s dressed in black, of course, but with a bright smile, cheerful

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Ep. 325: Is This Garbage? Or just Fantasy?

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2026/01/20

Bookbinding I have experimented with collage for a few weeks now and decided to make a collage cover. Expect to see more collage covers in the future. It was also time to practice making French link stitch binding so I combined the two in a blank, 100-page B6-sized notebook. The book boards are recycled files destined for the garbage pit. The covers are a recycle kite and left over bits from another book.The endpapers are recycle pieces that lived in my To Be Used Someday pile for the last decade

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Ep. 324: Growing Slurry: Is It Finished, Yet?

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2026/01/10

BookbindingYes, I finished Growing Slurry: A Whale of a Love Story. The title is on the spine and there’s a whale on the cover (front, spine, and back). The book is 265 A6-size pages, 17 signatures, with endbands, and a bluish book cloth for a cover. It took me a while to get the title printed on the spine and then to align the spine part of the book cover on the book boards. Properly. Fortunately, I managed. Practice, I’m told, leads to success. It takes place over the course of about 12 hours but

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Ep. 323: Is three times the charm?

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2025/12/13

BookbindingI’ve made three books in the last week or so. All the same topic. All the same size - A6 or pocketbook. All with some mistakes. All three books have the same four short stories: • Morris & Maurice is about a janitor and his Siamese cat, if you please, who witness both the development of a park and a murder. • Paul’s Paris Disneyland’s Farewell Party about three friends who get together in Paris to celebrate Paul’s retirement. They walk in the footsteps of Marcel Proust primarily

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Ep. 322: Ghosts & Mistakes

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2025/11/29

BookbindingIn the last two weeks, I made two books. The first one was a quick, blank notebook using bits and pieces. The second one was a case-bound novel with one major mistake. First, the blank notebook. The base for the cover is a file cut to size. On the cover, I pasted a variety of bookboards left over from other projects. These boards were also partly plastic & paper files or folders, and partly real bookboards. Then I added a piece of string just offset the squarish files. The whole

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Ep. 321: Ghosts, Spines, and Headbands

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2025/11/15

BookbindingContinuing with working multiple books like in my October Build month, I made, in the last two weeks, five books. The fifth book I will talk about in the Fiction section as well, but now I will talk about the first four books. The first two of the four books are called 24 for two (not 24) reasons. First, they were conceived on the 24th of October. Second, they have many facts about the number 24, not limited to math, but also the fact that in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,

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Ep. 320: Building Days

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2025/11/01

BookbindingThis was a daily building challenge where you were allowed to build anything you wanted for one month (one of the longest months: October, with 31 days). I, naturally, made mostly books. In fact, I believe I made 22 books. I first ran across Building Days watching Evan Monsma’s YouTube channel at Evan Monsma where he said that October, for him, was a challenge he gave himself to build something every day. I took up the challenge and, except for three days when I had a

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Ep. 319: Exploring Amazon & Carving out Reincarnation

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2025/10/15

BookbindingI purchased three books from Amazon. Two arrived in a timely manner: Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, which deals with memories and remembering; and Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto, which deals with both sibling rivalry, obnoxious and entitled people, and forgetting and possibly forgiveness, but I was intrigued by the envelope my Amazon horde arrived in: corrugated cardboard, which was plain on one side and festooned with a variety of QR codes on the other; probably my name, address, the

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Ep. 318: I Wove a Book and Russian Reincarnation

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2025/10/05

BookbindingYou might be happy to know that you have two books to check out this week. Two books of varying quality and ingenuity (or semi-inventiveness), but both useful (hopefully to you). First, the complete Woven Kanazawa with Useful (?) Japanese Phrases. About 100 pages with the phrases you can use throughout the Japanese-speaking world. Last week I showed you the incomplete cover. This week: The complete book! An exposed spine, link stitching, muted endpapers, but a cover made of cut-up

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Ep. 317: Weaving Molly Bright

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2025/09/17

BookbindingI created three covers for two as-yet unplanned books. All three are woven. The idea of the woven book cover came when I was cleaning out my stockpile of To Be Used in the Future material aka junk pile. About 15 years ago a friend abandoned Japan and gave me a ton of manila files. He kept teaching material in them. Everything from a very general Environment to a more specific Canadian holiday activities. I have used a few, maybe two, of these files as book boards. They are lightweight,

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Ep. 316: Casing in Kenrokuen Souvenir

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2025/08/31

BookbindingI cased in two books in the last week. One, The Kenrokuen Souvenir Notebook, is an A6 (pocketbook-size) mostly blank notebook. The recto pages (right side) contain really short Japanese lessons; translations of useful (?) words you might need while being a non-Japanese tourist in Kanazawa. The verso pages (left side) are lined for your writing pleasure. A video of the pages being printed and folded is available here. A video of Kenrokuen Souvenir Notebook being cased in will appear

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Ep. 315: Unfinished/Complete

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2025/08/15

BookbindingAbout two months ago, probably longer, I folded two sets of A5 sheets of paper in order to make two A6 notebooks (blank). Those signatures sat on my workbench for those months, unfinished. I took a short trip to another part of Japan, visited friends, recharged my passion for living, and came back to Kanazawa (in a heavy rainstorm. I actually left Kanazawa in a heavy rainstorm, too.) After a couple of days relaxing from my not-necessarily relaxing vacation, I started to work on those

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Ep. 314: The Complete Saigawa Exploration Committee...

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2025/07/18

BookbindingThis week in bookbinding, I made an A6-size blank notebook with a relatively unique cover. First, the book is six signatures with four folios each. It’s called The Complete Saigawa Exploration Committee Notebook. In both Japanese (犀川探検委員会全集) and, of course, English for you non-Japanese speakers/readers. The Saigawa is one of two big rivers that flow through Kanazawa (the other being the Asano river, meaning shallow river.) But the point of this book is the

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Ep. 313: Books, Novels, Weeding Oh My!

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2025/07/07

BookbindingThis is the first book I’ve bound in a couple of three-four months; maybe more. It’s A5, five signatures of five folios each. It is unique in that it has two endpapers on the front and back. The second endpaper is not glued to the cover but it looks nice. When I first made this book (I made it twice), the thread got caught on the cover but I didn’t notice it until I was finished. I wondered why the stitching on the cover was loose until I opened the book and found a large thread

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Ep. 312: Terminal Patient and Moving Forward

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2025/06/01

LifeI have told you in the past that I had a relative who had a terminal disease and that I was taking care of her. That relative has died. That relative was my wife. We met when she was 23, and she passed away at 63. She passed away in May of this year. We were married for 31 years, but had a lively and romantic life together for almost 40 years. Fortunately, we also had two wonderful children who took care of me for the last month. I have a lot of memories (good and bad) to work through. And a

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Ep. 311; Solaris Libri and Agnes Grout

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2025/05/01

BookbindingThis week or last, can’t remember, I made a sunny yellow book called Solaris Libri. The original name was the Sun Book, to go along with the Snowbank Book and the Earth Book, but decided to jazz I it up a little bit by throwing in Google’s Latin translation for Sun Book. The idea was I would make the book and then put it in the sun. Originally, I would just drop it in the garden and let nature take its course. But that meant it wouldn’t be the Sun book but the weather book. So I taped

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Ep 310: How Big a Hinge Gap/Spine Piece?

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2025/04/15

BookbindingI did something I should have done when I first started making books, but was too naive (dumb?) to do. I recommend new bookbinders do this activity. I made three A6-sized blank notebooks with five signatures of five folios each for a total of 100 pages. They were made with two different hinge gaps and three different spine pieces. This was a mistake. They should have been made with three different hinge gaps instead of two. Why did I make three books like this? Again, just to see how

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Ep 309: The Results of The Earth Book

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2025/03/30

BookbindingIn the last week, I have made four or five books of varying skill levels. Mostly, I made three books to test out various hinge gap spacing. Some people recommend one size, others another size. I will talk about those books in a future Tedorigawa Bookmakers podcast, so be sure to subscribe to hear that one. Also on a future podcast will be Solaris Libri (The Sun Book) that will be left out in the sun, the moon, and the stars (plus weather) for a month (30 days). I’m currently making this

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Ep 308: What Will the Earth Do?

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2025/03/15

BookbindingIn Episode 306, I showed you a French Link Stitch I made in January of this year. Well, this week I cased it in with book cloth I made last year and chiyogami Japanese endpapers. It’s still seven signatures of five folios each for about 140 pages, but now it’s enclosed in a nice cover. After casing in that book, creatively called Notebook January 2025, I made a similar book with a different name: Earth Book. I’ll talk more about Earth Book in the video section. It is five signatures of

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Ep. 307: Short. Why?

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2025/03/01

BookbindingTwo things happened last week. First, a family member fell sick. Second, I fell under the spell of norovirus, the stomach bug. Third, the family member physically fell and needed to be taken to the hospital; in the middle of the night. All of us are resting well. Needless to say, making a book was not my top priority. But, having said that, to relax, I made a small B7 not-blank notebook with five signatures of four folios each. Not-blank because the paper was leftover school handouts

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