Japanese magic has always fascinated me till this day as I try to learn as many effects possible created by Japanese magicians. The objective of this post is to gather as many Japanese effects possible through different medias in the English language only (books, pamphlets, magazines, DVDs, videos).

To start off...

Books:
1.) Five Times Five Japan
2.) New Magic of Japan
3.) Sawa's Library of Magic
4.) Amazing Miracles of Shigeo Takagi
5.) New York Symposium Volume 5 (including some great effects by Japanese performers)

Magazines:
1.) Apocalypse
2.) Trapdoor Magazine
3.) Genii (most notably 1969, 2000, and 2003)
4.) The Looking Glass

DVD/Video:
1.) Magic of Japan Video
2.) Secret Sessions (Wada, Sakai, and Hirose)
3.) Greater Magic Library - Classic Coin Vol.2 (Atsukawa's coin routine + Sawa's coin sequence)

If anybody knows any additional material, please feel free to add.

Best,
msc455magic

Video: Greater Magic Library #43 - Dr. Hiroshi Sawa (with translator Max Maven)

Ummm.... Shoot in Hollywood (Shoot Ogawa)
Cultural Exchange 1 (Apollo Robbins and Shoot Ogawa)
Cultural Exchange 2 (Apollo Robbins and Shoot Ogawa)

Do they count?

Book: A Joint Collection of Works by Tenkai Prize Winners

Is this in English? I thought it was only available in Japanese.

Adding to the list...

Books:
Tokyo Trickery (Takeshi Nemoto)
Lecture Notes (Shintaro Fujiyama)
Affections (Shin-Ichi Arai)
Kato on Estimation (Hideo Kato)
Lecture Notes #1 and #2 (Shigeo Takagi)

Video/DVD:
Far East Mysteries of Shigeo Takagi: Card & Coin (Shigeo Takagi)
Far East Mysteries of Shigeo Takagi: Rope Magic (Shigeo Takagi)
Shimada (volumes 2 & 3)
Greater Magic Video Library, vol. 59 - Yasuda of Japan

Thanks everybody for your inputs. Does anybody know where I can get hold of Affections (Shin-Ichi Arai) and Lecture Notes (Shintaro Fujiyama)?

If anybody knows more material regarding Japanese magic, please feel free to post.

Best,
msc455magic

I got my copy of Affections from Ton Onosaka's Magic Land. You might try e-mailing him ( magic@magicland.jp ). I rarely see the Fujiyama notes; I think I just got lucky.

Wow! Sounds interesting. What type of magic is it about?

Best,
msc455magic

Yes. There are many in the series, but this is the only one that is in both Japanese and English and is limited to 500 copies worldwide.

Anybody else?

Coins Akira with Akira Fujii.

Tomo Yuki Wise Works (Video)

I have the first volume, and watched the second one. Good material.

I think there are 3 volumes.

Regards,

Mesquita

Shigeo Futagawa (sp?) has a book on coin magic in English.

Oriental Conjuring and Magic, by Will Ayling and SH Sharpe (Supreme, 1981; 384 pages) contains a whole load of magic that ranges from Indian/Hindu magic to Chinese and Japanese tricks and routines.

The book Scott mentioned above is Shigeo Futagawa's 'Introduction to Coin Magic' (Borden, 1978) - a great little book.

Richard

Thanks Richard for the information. By "Japanese," do you mean the theme of the effect is related to Japan or the trick itself is invented by Japanese magician.

Best,
msc455magic

Adding a new one I recently came across. This is a short set of lecture notes...

"Something From the East," by Haruhito Hirata

Have you come across an English translation of this? I can only find the Japanese language version.

Adding to the list:

- The Magic of Tenkai
- Six Tricks by Tenkai

Adding:
- "Tannen's Magic Manuscript, Nov/Dec 1989" (featuring The Tenyo Story, and containing many tricks by the Tenyo creative team, including Hideo Kato, Shigeru Sugawara, Atsushi Fukano, Hiroshi Kondo, Teruhide Sonoda & Tomoyuki Shimomura).

- "Lecture Notes: Magic For The Working Magician" by Shigeo Futagawa (does anyone want to sell, or know where I can get a copy of these notes??)

Adding:
"Unbelievable" (small booklet by Masahiro Yanagida)

My newest discovery...

The Thoughts of Tenkai - Masatoshi Furota