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Book: Quilting with Japanese Fabrics by Kitty Pippen (2000, Paperback) 
Simple, educational and inspiring Japanese quilt book
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Raised in China as the child of missionaries, Kitty Pippen has a solid grasp of Asian fabric craft. Now residing on the Pacific coast of the US, she continues to find inspiration in the variety of Japanese fabr... read full review
Book: The Silk Weavers of Kyoto - Family and Work in Changing Traditional Industr... 
Insight into a weaver's life in Japan
1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
I picked this book up to learn more about the fabrics I handle every day in my business, and learned more than I had bargained for. Tamara Hareven brings the reader right into the workshops and homes of the wea... read full review
Book: The Book of Kimono : The Complete Guide to Style and Wear by Norio Yamanaka... 
Indespensible for the kimono wearing gaijin!
This is one of the first books to pick up if you want to learn how to wear a kimono yourself. The format is fairly simple, it starts with color photos of people in kimono (mostly women, but men and children als... read full review
Book: The Inner Harmony of the Japanese House by Atsushi Ueda (1998, Paperback) 
Insight into Japanese design and design concepts
On the surface this may seem like a dry, interesting-only-to-architects sort of book, but don't be fooled. Translated into English from the original Japanese text, the dry wit and wisdom of Atsushi Ueda... read full review
Book: Remembering the Kana : Hiragana and Katakana by Kazue Kurebayashe, Helmut M... 
Kana made memorable
I picked up this book to help me decipher much of the Japanese text I work with in my business, and it has really helped. With simple imagery and playful mnemonics, hiragana and katakana (the more basic forms o... read full review
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