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Five Times Five

Japan

1992 Hardcover

Richard Kaufman

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- Ton Onosaka

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#	Title	Type
9	Four by Four Masao Atsukawa	Trick
Four coins are shown. Two coins are place in each hand. Suddenly, all four coins are found in the left hand. Four coins are then taken in the right hand and travel one at a time to the left hand. Uses The Bullet or the M.A. Coin Propulsion move.
15	Four From Nowhere Masao Atsukawa	Trick
While attempting to make a coin travel from one hand to the other the magician finds that the coin vanishes from their hand and reappears on the table. This happens twice. Then a second coin mysteriously appears on the table, followed by a third coin and a fourth.
19	Propelled Chinese/Silver Masao Atsukawa	Trick
A Chinese coin and a half dollar change places three times. Uses The Bullet (aka M.A. Coin Propulsion). In the final phase The Bullet is performed simultaneously with the left and right hands.
22	Fabric Through Pasteboard Masao Atsukawa	Trick
The magician holds a large black silk and a jumbo playing card. They hold the silk in front of the card, then reaching behind the card, pull the silk back and forth through the center of the card. The silk is pulled through and the card handed out for examination.
25	The Knotted Letter Masao Atsukawa	Trick
A long thin strip of paper is tied into a knot in traditional Japanese fashion creating a pentagon shape. The knot magically disappears.
31	Ambitious Clip Tomohiro Maeda	Trick
An ending for the Ambitious Card, or perhaps a stand-alone effect. The selected card is paper clipped and the card buried in the deck, only to return to the top with the clip still in place. Finally, the card is buried, the is clip removed and place on the top card, which proves to be the selection.
34	New Era Moving Pips Tomohiro Maeda	Trick
A card is selected (say the Eight of Diamonds). The magician reveals their prediction, the Six of Diamonds is seen beneath the cellophane of the card box. The spectator objects that the prediction is incorrect, but the pips visibly move to transform into the Eight of Diamonds.
37	Match Transposition Tomohiro Maeda	Trick
The magician opens a full matchbook and rips out a single match. They strike the match, lighting it. They blow it out and it suddenly changes into a row of unlit matches. When the matchbook is opened, only a single burnt match is discovered inside.
39	BoxBack Tomohiro Maeda	Trick
Magician removes the deck from its case and pockets the case. The deck is spread and the four Aces removed. A quick color change is performed with the deck, and then with a wave of the hand the card case is found to enclose the deck. The case is opened, removed, and pocketed a second time.
43	Pieces of the Future Tomohiro Maeda	Trick
Magician offers to do a card trick, but only has a red balloon. When inflated and popped a deck of cards appears. A card is selected. The magician needs a balloon. The scraps of the popped balloon are gathered. One scrap is heart-shaped, another looks like the number eight, matching the chosen card.
46	Stanley Collins Meets Corinda Kenichi Kuroki	Trick
A series of four rubber band tricks. Twice, the bands jump from around one pair of fingers to another pair. Then a band is wrapped around two fingers, but frees itself while the tip of the finger is being held. Finally, a band links onto the magician's finger while the spectator holds the finger.
49	The Mystery of Width Kenichi Kuroki	Trick
A bill is folded into a long thin strip. Another bill is wrapped around it. When the strip emerges from the other side it has doubled in width. The bill is pushed through again and again emerges wider. No gimmicks, an origami fold makes this possible.
53	Cocktail Bill Penetration Kenichi Kuroki	Trick
A cocktail napkin is wrapped around the center of a bill, and the bill is folded in half. A pen is driven through the center of the bill and the cocktail napkin. When the pen is removed and the bill unfolded, there is no hole in the bill, only in the napkin.
56	The Talisman Kenichi Kuroki	Trick
A red backed card has been folded in half and stapled to the outside of the blue card box. The corner of the stapled card is lifted showing a Joker. A card is freely selected. The magician attempts to find the card, but finds a Joker instead. The stapled card is checked and it is the chosen card.
60	Illusion Box Kenichi Kuroki	Trick
A matchbook has only two matches, centrally located. The matches are covered with a piece of paper and the matchbook is closed. A pen is shoved through the center of the matchbook. When the matchbook is opened, the two matches have moved to the outermost positions.
63	Appearing Deck Kuniyasu Fujiwara	Trick
From inside their wallet, the magician removes a flat piece of cardboard. One side is printed like a card box, the other side is blank white. The wallet is set aside. The flat piece of cardboard suddenly becomes a 3-dimensional card box containing a full deck of cards.
67	The Card Machine Kuniyasu Fujiwara	Trick
The top and bottom ends of a Joker have been folded so that the ends of the Joker can wrap around a card. A card is placed perpendicularly to the Joker and the card is stretched to twice its normal length. It is restored to its normal size and then the back of the card changes from blue to red.
72	The Joker Takes a Ride Kuniyasu Fujiwara	Trick
A card is selected and lost in the deck. The magician takes out a Joker placing it on top of the deck. The cards are riffled and the cartoon joker disappears leaving a hole in the card. After a second riffle the joker's bicycle disappears. The cut out joker is found on top of the selected card.
75	Soft Spots Kuniyasu Fujiwara	Trick
A card is selected and lost. A sheet of plastic with a hole the diameter of a pencil about one inch from one end is placed atop the deck. The spectator pushes a pencil through the hole. Surprisingly, it passes through the deck. The magician pulls the deck away leaving only the selected card impaled.
79	Lie Detector Kuniyasu Fujiwara	Trick
A card is selected (6H). A piece of clear plastic with random lines and shapes is shown. The magician asks Was the card a Heart? The plastic is folded, the word TRUE appears. Was it the Four of Hearts? The image morphs into the number 6. What was the card? An image of the Six of Hearts appears.

What is Five Times Five? This volume, the first in a projected series, is an attempt to bring to the world of magic a sense of the changes in the world at large--the notion of a "global village." Ideally, in such a situation, a worldwide cross-cultural intimacy of thought and technique in our art would be available with ease to anyone who wished to study it. In the United States, we have had minimal exposure to the great close-up magicians who have such an impact and achieve such renown in their own countries. Our tendency is to dismiss a magician with a foreign name we don't recognize, and this unfortunate habit is proven over and over out by the sales of books and video tapes which feature their magic. They always sell in fewer numbers, which thereafter discourage most publishers from undertaking such ventures in the future.

I have been routinely astounded by the close-up magic from other countries, and hope to bring some of that sense, and some of those wonderful routines, to you in this series. The country I have chosen to initiate the project is one whose magic is widely appreciated around the world: Japan. The five men in this volume offered me a choice selection of their best material, and it was not an easy task to narrow it down to the twenty-five items which fill these pages. They reflect Japan's sense of "preciousness" about close-up magic, and the desire to build effects and routines around short and unusual plots. I have tried to balance this with some Western-style card and coin routines, at whose construction the Japanese excel. There is to all of them, however, a unique flavor that makes each seem fresh and different from our perspective.

I must thank Hiro Sakai for his invaluable help in the preparation of this book. He was extremely helpful in suggesting to the other four contributors which material might be apropos, and was also a wonderful host for several days on one of my visits to Tokyo. I am very fortunate in having Ton Onosaka as the illustrator in this first volume. Not only is he one of the finest artists working in the field of magic today, he is also almost single-handedly responsible for the great cross-culturalization in magic between America and Japan that is just now beginning and will continue to bloom into the next century. He is a unique individual whose gracious generosity has meant the world to many magicians, and to him we bow in gratitude.

Richard Kaufman Washington, DC