If you own Nankin Tamasudare you might consider this wonderful book from magician / author Richard Hatch.

This is a bilingual (English and Japanese) story about the struggles and triumph of a young fisherman in old Japan. Inspired by the ancient Japanese feat of “Nankin Tamasudare” in which bamboo sticks are manipulated into figures, and the art of the great Japanese master Hokusai, the story was written in America, translated in Japan and illustrated in Hungary!

Richard Hatch, the author, is a professional magician and co-founder of the Hatch Academy of Magic and Music. He includes his telling of this tale, illustrated with the mysterious tamasudare mat.

András Balogh, the illustrator, is a children’s book designer and digital painter living in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. He studied at the Free School of Fine Arts in Kecskemét where he received a strong foundation in the arts, visual creativity and traditional painting.

Yukishige Kadoya, the translator from English into Japanese, is a freelance translator and writer based in Nagoya, Japan. He is also a performing magician and a scholar of magic. He often serves as the interpreter for the many major foreign magicians who lecture and perform in Japan.

CHAPTER ONE: Miracles with a Straight Deck
Point of Arrival - For Faster Service, Please Take a Number - Amazing Mind Control - The Information Cards - Any Number Can Play - The Double-Cross Illusion - After Tenkai - A Falsified Spread Shuffle - The Spelling Collins' Aces.

CHAPTER TWO: Prepared Cards
The Stampede Second - Snowbird - My Great-Great Grandfather's Card Trick - Bill in Card - Almost a Color Change - The King Cuts Out - The Big Switch - The Impossible Miniature Card Rise - Cardiographic - Specdeck.

CHAPTER THREE: Packet Magic
Queenie, The Amazing Dancing Girl - The Card Player's Nightmare - Wrong Again, Watson! - Rabbit Test - Sidewalk Shuffle - The Very Odd Card - Martin's Computer Cards.

CHAPTER FOUR: Numismagic
James'First - Flying Eagles, A Variation - Coin Assembly - Going Home - There and Back - Texas Money.

CHAPTER FIVE: Medley
Dice Propagation - Martin's Morton's Miracle - The Inscrutable Sticks - Technicolor Prediction - Magigami - Fired! - Martin's Improved Lie Detector.

These notes contain a total 25 effects for stage, close up, and parlor, and includes my european notes in French, Italian, and German. Three sets of notes for the price of two.

Contents include:

Undivided - Technicolor Prediction - Crystal Gazing - Cardiographic - Whispering Joker - Point of Arrival - Sidewalk Shuffle - Magicians Poker - Prismatic Pencil - Spelling Collins Aces - Queenie - The Cheap Cup - The Come Back Card - Lucifers Card - Maskelynes 24 Rules - Two Color Torn Paper - Halve-It - Sharper Sharped - The Natural Count - Harbins Card in Bottle - Dice Finale - Ghostwriter - Re-Covered - Impossible Minature Card Rise - Improved "Zens" Envelope Switch.

The magic of Eric Lewis by Martin Lewis

This is the lecture I gave at the A1 MagicalMedia Convention last year.

Contents:
Who Done it ? - Jumbo Halve-It ‚ Crystal Ring ‚ The Natural Count ‚ Sharper Sharped - The Strange Letter - The Odd Card ‚ Signed Card In Insurance Policy ‚ Ghost Deal ‚ The RipStix.