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Japan Ingenious

2013 Hardcover

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#	Title	Type
17	Case Card Masao Atsukawa	Trick
A red-backed deck of cards is removed from the card case and shuffled. A blue-backed prediction card is placed in the card box. A card is randomly selected from the shuffled deck. The prediction is removed from the card case and it matches the selected card.
19	Warp 9 Masao Atsukawa	Trick
You show a large playing card cut into six pieces. They try to assemble the face up pieces to form a complete card but one piece doesn't fit unless it is turned face down. This is repeated, now a different piece is the odd one out. A third attempt has the puzzle completed properly.
23	The Volunteer Swindler Hiroyuki Sakai	Trick
A $10 bill and a $5 bill are shown. The $10 bill is left in the wallet while the $5 bill is origami folded so it resembles two $5 bills. The "two" $5 bills transform into the $10 bill and the $5 bill is found back in the wallet.
13	Foreward	Foreword
This genesis this book is "Winners," a collection of effects from eight recipients of the Masao Atsukawa Prize, published by Magic Land in Japan.
28	Hairband Mystery Hiroyuki Sakai	Trick
A hairband is wrapped twice around the magician's thumb and then penetrates through the thumb.
30	A Transient Love Story Hiroyuki Sakai	Trick
Romantic magic tricks. #1 The center tear to get a phone number. #2 Produce a bouquet of flowers while on a date. #3 Your date guesses the number of the hotel room you've booked. #4 A quick dinner recipe. #5 Make an engagement ring appear on the finger of your beloved. And a bonus card trick.
40	Inception Hiroyuki Sakai	Trick
A paper sleeve is wrapped around a $100 bill. A small flap in the sleeve is opened and the spectators clearly see Independence Hall on the back of the bill. The flap is closed, then opened again, and the building has disappeared. The flap is closed, and reopened, and the building has returned.
43	The Right-Angle Mystery Hiroyuki Sakai	Trick
The magician displays a $1, $5, and $10 bill. The spectator selects one. The three bills are stacked one atop the other. The spectator takes hold of all three bills, closes their eyes for a moment, and opens them to discover that the selected bill is now at right angles to the others.
46	The Vanish Which Elevates Tenkai Hiroyuki Sakai	Technique
A coin vanish in which the coin is neither falsely "put" or "taken," but is genuinely put into the hand and then secretly stolen back. A coin is displayed on their left hand. The left hand closes around the coin. The right hand is waved over the left fist. The left hand is opened, the coin is gone.
48	Inner Inertia Hiroyuki Sakai	Trick
A small wallet is said to contain a prediction. The spectator shuffles a deck of cards. They cut the deck and insert the wallet to mark the cut. The cards above the wallet are removed. The wallet is opened to reveal the prediction matches the card the spectator cut to.
50	Celebrity Torn and Restored Card Hiroyuki Sakai	Trick
A card is selected and signed by both the magician and the spectator. The card is cleanly torn into halves -- the halves are displayed separately, one in each hand. The card is restored (though it cannot be given the the spectator).
55	One Man Self-Levitation Hiroyuki Sakai	Trick
An illusion suited for television or parlor where the seating area is not too wide. The magician steps into a small box. The sides are lowered. The magician floats straight up in the air about a foot, then slowly descends. The sides of the box are raised and the magician steps out of the box.
15	Introduction It All Started with Magic Land	Introduction
60	Zodea Tomohiro Maeda	Trick
The magician displays 12 cards printed with the signs of the zodiac and a prediction. A zodiac card is selected. The prediction is shown to be a series of undecipherable astrological glyphs. When the prediction is folded the symbols turn into letters spelling the name of the selected zodiac sign.
64	Re-Psychle Tomohiro Maeda	Trick
A card is selected. The card box is shown to be empty and an old fountain pen is uncapped and placed inside the box. The fountain pen begins to move on its own – writing something on the inside of the box. The card box is torn open and a message is found inside the box revealing the selected card.
67	The Angle of the Hypotheses Tomohiro Maeda	Trick
Two business cards are shown, one with the picture of a fork, the other with a picture of a spoon. The magician flexes the fork card back and forth and when they stop the drawing of the fork is now bent. The spectator flexes the spoon card and when the card is turned over, the spoon has now bent.
70	Out to Cut Tomohiro Maeda	Trick
The magician draws a pair of scissors on the back of a business card along with the spectator’s initials. The business card is placed in the card box. A card is selected. The sound of scissors is heard from the card box. When it is opened the business card has been cut to reveal the selected card.
74	Elevator Illusion Hideki Tani	Trick
Two blank cards with 4 thin slits are shown. The cards are placed together on the top of the card box. The back of a playing card is seen through the slits rising up between the cards. The cards are reversed and the card is seen descending back into the deck. The card is found reversed in the deck.
78	Vanishing Wedding Band Hideki Tani	Trick
A wedding band is removed and displayed clearly on the hand. The hand is slowly closed and when opened the wedding band has disappeared. The hand is shown empty front and back. Then the wedding band is reproduced.
82	Card Tapestry Takanobu Ishida	Trick
A fan of four aces are shown. The spectator names one of the ace suits. The fan is closed and when the cards are dropped they adhere to each other forming a long chain, with the named card being the one card reversed in the chain.

[From the Forward, by Richard Kaufman] The genesis of this book is Winners, a collection of effects from eight recipients of the Masao Atsukawa Prize, published by Magic Land in Land in Japan. After the initial book was published, small booklets were later released containing the material of subsequent Atsukawa Prize winners. The awards were decided by a committee, and presented during an annual December party organized by Magic Land, run by Ton, Satoshi, and Mama Onosaka.

The best tricks from those publications were translated into English and rewritten by my friend, Steve Cohen. As a professional magician, his studies of Japanese and time spent in that country have given him a very special set of skills when it comes to rendering the text of Japanese magic tricks into English.

Rather than bringing just those items to you, it seemed a good idea to "rescue" quite a few other remarkable Japanese close-up effects that myself and Max Maven have described in print and are -- as are most tricks in magazines -- generally overlooked or forgotten. Having written and published many fine effects from Japanese magicians over the past 25 years has made reviewing all of them, and adding just the very best to this collection, a pleasant task.

Many people have asked me, what is the difference between the magic created by Japanese and Western magicians, or if indeed there is any difference at all. The answer to this question might seem complex, bit it is not.

The answer is Ton Onosaka...