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Last updated 10/9/2025

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Note that some of the dates of the books listed below are after 1751. I do not know if these were books published posthumously or were reprints of books issued during Sukenobu's lifetime.

The paperfolding material found in these books can be divided into 9 categories: Garments featuring paperfolding designs / Recreational paperfolding designs / Sake Bottle Decorations / Ocho and Mecho Butterflies / Tsutsumi / Pentagonal Knots / Basic Document Folds / Packages / Pleated Folding Fans. I have not usually recorded prints which only show paper fans.

The works I have checked for paperfolding related material are:

(Where Source Pages have been made the paperfolds in the work are listed in brackets and italicised and the title links to the Source Page. Where paperfong material was found but no Source Page has yet been made the material is shown below.)

Undated:

'Genroku jinbutsu' undated but allocated to 1751 (paper crane / basic packet)

Dated:

1706 'Yakusha tomo ginmi'

1713 'Shotoku hinagata (aka Shotoku 3)' (sake bottle decorations / circular fan / paper boat with three sails)

1716 'Hinagata miyako fuzoku' (paper crane / paper boat with three sails)

1716 to 1735 - 'Yaro fuzoku' - Kimono Pattern Book. (no paperfolding material found)

1717 'Sanju'nyo sugata kurabe' (no paperfolding material found)

1717 'Kokusen'ya mincho taiheiki' in 6 Volumes of which only 2 to 5 are in the British Museum. Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4 and Volume 5 (no paperfolding material found)

1717 'Jûni bijin zu' (no paperfolding material found)

1720 Shunga print (paper crane)

1722 'Akindo kashoku kin' (no paperfolding material found)

1723 'Hyakunin joro shinasadame' (folded packets / tsutsumi / gohei / sake container decorations / collapsible fans / the pentagonal knot)

1729 'Ehon towa kagami' in 3 volumes

1731 'Ehon Tokiwagusa' (paper crane / basic packet / tsutsumi / sake bottle decorations / the pentagonal knot)

1732 'Onna fuhzoku tama kagami' (komoso / paper boat / paper crane / sake bottle decorations / ocho and mecho / noshi)

1733 'Ehon minanogawa' (no paperfolding material found)

1735 'Nishikawa fudenoumi' (basic packet / paper boat / sanbo)

1736 'Ehon Ariso-umi' 3 Volumes - Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 (no paperfolding material found)

1736 'Ehon tamakazura'

1739 'Ehon Asakayama' (no paperfolding material found)

1739 'Ehon ike no kokoro' in 3 Volumes - Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3

1740 'Ehon Chitoseyama' (Thousand-Year Mountain) in 3 Volumes - Volume 1, Volume 2 and. Volume 3

1740 'Ehon Tzurezuregusa' (Essays in Idleness) in 3 Volumes - Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 (no paperfolding material found)

1741 'Ehon chiyomigusa'

1741 (Illustrated Proverbs)

1741 'Ehon Makuzugahara' in 3 Volumes - Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3 (no paperfolding material found)

1742 'Jokyo bunsho kagami' in 3 volumes - Volume 1 Volume 2 and Volume 3

1744 'Ehon nezame gusa' in 3 volumes.

1745 'Ehon Himetsubaki' (Camellia) in 3 Volumes - Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3

1746 'Ehon Miyako Zoshi' (Picture Book of Life in the Capital) in 3 Volumes - Volume 1, Volume 2 and Volume 3

1747 (Illustrated Poems)

1747 'Ehon kame no oyama' in 3 volumes

1747 'Ehon fude tsubana' in 1 volume

1748 'Ehon masukagami' (paper crane / komoso / paper boat / ocho and mecho / noshi)

1748 'Ehon kai gasen'

1749 'Ehon Ogurayama' (Ogura Hill )

1749 'Ehon yubu kagami'

1751 'Nyohitsu shinan shu' (Calligraphy handbook)

1754 'Ehon hibiki no taki'

1756 'Ehon Matsutetsikwa' (Flowers Yet to be Picked)

1758 'Ehon mitsuwagusa' (The Illustrated Lives of Women) in 3 Volumes

1761 'Ehon komatsubara' in 2 Volumes

1768 'Ehon Setsugekka'

1768 'Ehon ike no kawazu' -

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Material from works for which source pages have not yet been made:

1706

From 'Yakusha tomo ginmi'

This print shows two men carrying staffs with gohei.

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1736

From 'Ehon Ariso-umi'

From Volume 3

In this print the woman on the left is handing a document folded into a pentagonal knot to the man kneeling on the floor.

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This print shows flowers in a formal folded wrapper (tsutsumi)

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From 'Ehon tamakazura'

The woman on the left is holding a letter closed with a single fold.

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In the right hand panel there is a Basic Packet lying on the floor.

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1739

From 'Ehon ike no kokoro'

From Volume 2.

In this print the man in the left hand panel is holding what appears to be a noshi (dried abalone wrapped in folded paper). Behind him are two sake containers decorated with what may be folded paper decorations.

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1740

From 'Ehon Chitoseyama' (Thousand-Year Mountain)

From Volume 3

This print shows two sake containers decorated with what may be folded paper decorations.

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1741

From 'Ehon chiyomigusa'

This print includes two sake containers decorated with paper butterflies.

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This print shows a simple form of shide hanging from a shimenawa attached to a torii.

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The woman in this print is holding flowers wrapped in a tsutsumi.

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1742

From 'Jokyo bunsho kagami'

From Volume 1

There is an Incense Packet on the floor in front of the woman on the left.

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An Incense Packet is shown in this print as well.

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This print shows two sake bottles decorated with folded paper butterflies.

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1744

From 'Ehon nezame gusa'

From Volume 1

This print shows simple shide attached to a shimenawa and two sake bottles decorated with folded paper butterflies.

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1746

From 'Ehon Miyako Zoshi' (Picturebook of Life in the Capital)

Volume 1

In this print, in the left panel, there are flowers in a formal wrapper on a small table, and two sake bottles decorated with folded paper butterflies and a letter closed using two folds lies on the shelf to the left.

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Volume 2

This print shows what seems to be a simple form of shide hanging from the tree and folded paper butterflies standing in the tray of the stall to the left, which may possibly be the tops of sake bottles.

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Volume 3

This print also shows folded paper butterflies standing in the tray of the stall to the left. These may possibly be the tops of sake bottles.

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1747

From 'Ehon kame no oyama'

Volume 1

The left hand panel of this print shows a gohei and two sake bottles decorated with folded paper butterflies.

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Volume 2

The lower right hand panel includes a sake kettle decorated with a folded paper butterfly.

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Volume 3

In this print the woman on the left has just thrown a document folded into a pentagonal knot at the man outside.

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This print shows a document closed using two backward folds.

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From 'Ehon fude tsubana'

In this print there is a gohei stuck in the ground by the river.

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This print shows documents shows documents which have been closed with a single backwards fold..

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1758

'Ehon mitsuwa gusa' (The Illustrated Lives of Women)

Volume 1

This print shows a symmetrical pentagonal knot laid in a box, possibly serving as a wrapper for some dried abalone.

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'Ehon mitsuwagusa' (The Illustrated Lives of Women)

Volume 1

There are two sheets of paper on the floor, one crumpled, and the right hand woman seems to be holding something, perhaps a doll, made from another sheet. Is this paperfolding?

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The woman in this print is holding a gohei.

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1768

From 'Ehon Setsugekka'

In the right hand lower corner of this print a man is carrying a table on a pole. On the table are two sake bottles decorated with folded paper butterflies.

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This print shows two gohei stuck in the ground. Between them is a shimenawa from which small shide are hung.

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From 'Ehon ike no kawazu'

In this print the lady on the right is offering the man in front of her a stick to which a document is tied using a symmetrical pentagonal knot.

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There are two sake bottles decorated with folded paper butterflies in the top right corner of this print.

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