Karatoji - Karatoji

Japanese: 唐とじ - からとじ
Karatoji - Karatoji

…Enclosed binding is said to have begun in the early 14th century during the Yuan Dynasty in China, but after the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1573-1619), a similar binding method using thread became popular. It is also called line binding in China and Kara toji in Japan, and became the mainstream binding method for Japanese books from the late Muromachi period to the Edo period. Since the Eastern printing method involved placing paper on a woodblock and rubbing the back side to print, only one-sided printing was possible, so line binding was a revolutionary binding method that filled the gaps of sticky leaf binding. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Kara Toji" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…袋とじは中国元代の14世紀初めころからはじまったといわれるが,明代の万暦期(1573‐1619)以後に,同様のものを糸とじする装丁法が流行した。中国では線装,日本では唐(から)とじとも呼び,室町時代後期から江戸時代にわたって和装本装丁の主流となった。東洋の印刷方式は,版木に用紙をのせてその裏面をこすって印刷するため片面刷りしかできなかったので,線装は粘葉装の欠を補う画期的な装丁法であった。…

※「唐とじ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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