Title: Kites - Hiroi Chikara (Large Color Illustrated Catalog) Publisher: Mainichi Newspapers Published: January 1, 1973 Contents: 182 pages Photographs: Akihisa Masuda, Chikara Hiroi Cover Design & Layout: Kaoru Tanaka Outer Box: The book is very clean. *The outer box has many cracks and tears. *Contents* Introduction - 3 History Timeline of Kites - 5 History of Kites - 9 Origin of Kites - 10 Kites of Japan - 17 Discussion of Japanese Kites - 18 Contemporary Japanese Kites - 23 Edo Nishiki-e Edition / Haburi Fūdan - 78 Large Kites and Kite Battles - 83 Flying Large Kites in Japan - 84 Yokaichi / Hojuge / Sagamihara / Zama / Hamamatsu / Shirone / Naruto / Nagasaki - 85 Winds of the World - 107 World Wind Map - 108 12 Basic Kite Shapes of the World - 112 Contemporary Creative Kites - 131 Discussion of Three-Dimensional Kites - 132 Principles of Kite Flight - 134 5 Basic Creative Shapes - 136 Kites - Drawings - 153 Flexible / Parafoil, etc. - 154 Kites - Materials - 169 Illustration Index - 176 English Explanation - 178 Afterword - 181 ◎↓Search Terms #Chikara Hiroi Complete Collection of Japanese Kites Artistic Kites Paintings Dancing in the Sky Tadao Saito Color Books 340) Kite Making Kites of the World Beauty of Old Kites: Forty Selected Pictures of Old Japanese Kites How to Make and Fly Kites Kites of My Hometown Taimeiken Kite Museum Kite Association of Japan Shingo Modegi Kite Making: All About Japanese Kites Making Kites Japanese Kites Western Kites Folk Art Folk Craft Old Tools Lifestyle Careful Living Antique Market Old Tools Old Folk Tools Bernard Leach Sōetsu Yanagi Sori Yanagi Beauty of Use Yanagi Muneyoshi Japan Folk Crafts Museum Peasant Art #Local Toys Bingo-ya Local Toys Hiroshi Aramata Kunio Yanagita Shinobu Machida Beauty of the Vessel Anonymous Design Folk Art folkart folktoy Folk Toy Peasant Art casabrutus BRUTUS Ginka Philippe Weisbecker