This is a used book. Please check the condition in the photos. The inside is clean. Small paper wrappers, bamboo baskets, and egg cartons seemed to speak to us about something extremely important that we must consider in this era, something that transcends mere beauty. This is a collection of works by Hideyuki Oka (1905-), a designer who continued to collect and research traditional packaging during the dawn of Japanese design. It introduces over 295 examples of package designs for food, sweets, and other items that used simple, sophisticated natural materials before the era of mass production and mass consumption. It includes abundant black-and-white and color photographs of traditional Japanese packaging made from ancient Japanese materials such as bamboo, rice straw, hemp string, paper, and leaves. At the end of the book, there is a photographic index with descriptions of the uses of each item, as well as essays by Hideyuki Oka ("The Origin of Packaging"), Shinpei Kusano ("Wrapping"), Yumie Hiraiwa ("The Heart of Wrapping"), and Kentaro Miyamoto ("The Folklore of Packaging").