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How to Wrap Five More Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging

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This is one of my all time favorite books. I wish I had a copy of it. It is about a tradional Japanese form of packaging different things, mostly food. The idea behind it is that when you present someone with a cake, say, and its nicely packaged they get the idea that you hope they enjoy the cake.
The five eggs of the title are sort of stacked up and bound with straw woven in an ingenious way. The photographs are lovely and the descriptions of the various packages are informative as well as evocotive. I once had the chance to see
How To Wrap Five Eggs at the Japan Society Library. Boy I wish I had that one too.

This book is not a sequel to "How to Wrap Five Eggs"; it's a re-issue with some new material, and a few color photos at the very beginning. If you already have "How to Wrap Five Eggs", you may not want to spring for this one.

I'm just sayin'.

The book was in amazing shape and arrived wrapped liked a present. The wrapping itself made me smile, since the name of the book is called, How to Wrap Five More Eggs; Traditional Japanese Packaging.

Lisa

I got my hands on this book recently. Its a book which says most of the story through pictures. Its amazing to see how advanced Japanese ancient art is and how much we can learn about them.