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Monday Feb 14, 2011
Episode 62: Setsubun Book
Monday Feb 14, 2011
Monday Feb 14, 2011
With ten signatures of four sheets (folios?) each, the Setsubun Book comes in at a handy 160 pages. It's A5 in size. The first folio of each signature is green, which sort of accents the cover's green. The thread is black, which accents the cover, too, I believe. The cover is a very tactile - a bit rough - paper I found in a local shop. The book has red endpapers that accent nothing but definitely give a sense of adventure when you open the book for the first time.
This is the first coptic binding I have sewn in five months and I think I did a fairly good job of it. So good, in fact, that I'm putting it up for sale. For $12.34 US. It comes with a string attached, however. You have to tell me how it holds up over the time you have it.
But what is Setsubun and why is this book named as such? Setsubun is a part of the spring festival in Japan. It's traditionally considered the beginning of Spring and is February 3rd. On Setsubun people throw roasted soybeans (福豆 - fuku mame = luck beans) in two directions: out of their house and into their house. While throwing the beans out of their house, people yell "Oni ha soto!" (Devil - or demons - out!) and while throwing beans into their house, people yell "Fuku wa uchi!" (Fortune in! 福 - fuku = fortune).
This book was completed on February 3rd, therefore it was saddled with the name Setsubun Book. A wonderful addition to anyone who wants a blank notebook for drawing, notes, doodling, or having around the house.
Don't forget to look at our other books for sale on the For Sale page: A B6-sized blank notebook (moleskine-esque) for $12.34 and two Original Novels in one convenient book.
Tedorigawa Bookmakers gives 20% of sales to Kiva, a micro-finance group that loans money to impoverished entrepreneurs in developing economies.
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