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Ep. 333: A Large Zuihitsu & A Mystery Solved

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2026/03/22

BookbindingLast episode I cased in Our Truckin’ Book but the book boards splayed out as if I had cut them perpendicular to the grain rather than with the grain. This episode, I tore off the cover and repaired it with the proper grain. But the same book cloth so it looks similar. This week I printed out two copies of Benengeli’s Zuihitsu. One is A5 and one is A6. This week, I cased in the A5 version. With one experiment that isn’t so experimental except for me. I sliced off the fore edge and I liked

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Ep 322: Our Truckin’ Book – Art for and by Us.

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2026/03/16

Bookmaking I finished Our Truckin’ Book which is an art book I’m hoping artists will finish. It is 100 pages, A5 in size (half of A4), and blank, of course, for artists to fill up as they wish. Hopefully. For Our Truckin’ Book to be completed, I need at least one artist’s physical mail address so I can send them a physical ie real book. The artist will send the book to the next artist and hopefully someday Our Truckin’ Book will be completed. Looking forward to that day. Also in bookmaking, I

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Ep. 331: A Shinkansen Vacation

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2026/03/09

BookbindingI went to Tokyo for four days. Before that, I finished a client’s hardcopy of The Briefcase Case. I presented it to the client in Tokyo. Other than making that particular book, I didn’t make any other as I was busy going to and from Tokyo by shinkansen. Fiction I’ve got three bits of fiction floating around my computer and brain. One: Zuihitsu. It has two plots that are coming to end soon and when they do finish, the book will be finished. Plot one – a revenge story. Plot two – a

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Ep. 330: The Battered Briefcase Case: A Mystery

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2026/02/27

BookbindingThis week in bookbinding I made a quick collage-covered A6, 50-page book: The Battered Briefcase Case: A Marsh Mystery. It is a murder mystery. A man is accused of murder and hires a private investigator to find the real killer. The investigator discovers someone in Spain might have information about the real killer. In Spain the investigator meets his one true love. This is a short story I wrote a few weeks back. While it has a plot: Who’s the killer? It is more character-driven than

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Ep. 329: A Bespoke Collage & Tattoo?

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2026/02/20

BookbindingThis is a120-page, A6-size blank notebook with a collage cover. The important part is the collage cover. As is most of my collage covers, this was an experiment in two ways: first, could I film the process? Second, did it look okay? Top right is the front cover. Top left is the back cover. Off by itself is the book opened up so you can see both the front and back at the same time. Fascinating, eh? To the first question: yes, I could film it. If you go to RhinoTattoo on YouTube, you

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Ep. 328: Where is Rhino River?

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2026/02/13

BookbindingYou’re going to get a quick and easy Japanese lesson unless you already speak and read Japanese in which case this might be boring? Rhinoceros in Japanese is Sai with the accompanying kanji being 犀. The English river in Japanese transforms to Kawa with its kanji being three vertical lines; one is not straight: 川. Together they form one of the two major rivers that flow through Kanazawa: the Saigawa (犀川) – the K morphs into G in dual kanji. The other river is the Asanogawa which means

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Ep. 327: Why Do I Dislike This Collage?

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2026/02/07

BookbindingI made a collage from a political pamphlet but I didn’t like it because I don't like the politician and I made the collage in anger. When I finished the collage, I didn’t like it because I made in anger; I was thinking of throwing it away. However, I did more digging into the politician. I’m not angry any more, but I do have some questions. For example, he’s against renewable energy, specifically solar and wind power. He wants Japan to have an educational system that encourages logic and

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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

Tedorigawa Bookmakers ·

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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