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181 pages : 27 cm, \"This book is about kites I have seen, kite makers I have spoken with, and kite festivals I have attended.\"--Prologue, Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181), Giant kite fighting in Shirone -- The Sanjo kite maker Toranosuke Watanabe -- The last kite maker of Tokyo: Edo kite maker Teizo Hashimoto -- Along the Tokaido Road: Suruga kite maker Tatsusaburo Kato -- From Samurai to kite maker: Yokosuka kite maker Matsutaro Yanase -- The insect kites of Nagoya: Sakurai kite maker Semmatsu Iwase -- The Nagasaki fighting kite: Hata kite maker Shigeyoshi Morimoto -- Picnis at the battleground: the Hamamatsu kite festival -- The taste of kites: consummate collector Shingo Modegi -- The world's largest kite, the Hoshubana Showa O-dako -- Bamboo and paper -- Two sculptors who make kites: Tsutomu Hiroi and Tal Streeter -- Tsutomu Hiroi's kites -- Tal Streeter's flying red line -- Oriental kites: a brief history -- The kite's beginning -- Festival and celebration kites -- Fighting kites -- Giant kites -- The recent past -- Make your own kite and fly it -- Make a Japanese kite? -- General characteristics of the Japanese kite -- The bones -- The bridle and flying l

Author

Streeter, Tal

Publisher

New York : Weatherhill

Published

1974

Language

EN

ISBN

9780834800885

Subjects

Engineering, Anthropology, Crafts & Hobbies

Updated

2026-03-24