Yamato binding - Yamato binding

A binding method. Several or several dozen sheets are stacked and stapled together with paper twine. Covers are then added to the front and back, two holes are punched at the top and bottom of the right edge, and the book is bound with decorative braided or flat string, or several thick silk threads. The paper can be folded and stacked in any of the following ways: tetchousou (retsujo binding), kochoso (deccho binding), or fukuro-tsuji. This binding method was already in use at the end of the Heian period, and the original binding is known as Uchigikishu (formerly owned by Yamaguchi Koen), but it has been renovated into a different type of binding in recent years. This binding method is still commonly seen today in photo albums of shrines, temples, and famous places. There is also a theory that tsujiyoso and kochoso are Yamato binding.

[Kazumasa Kaneko]

“Sixty Years of Restoration of Ancient Documents” by Tainosuke Endo (1987, Kumko Shoin)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

装丁法の一つ。用紙を数枚ないし数十枚重ね、紙縒(こより)で中綴じをして留める。ついで前後に表紙を添え、右端の上と下二か所に二つずつ綴じ穴をあけて、装飾的な組紐(くみひも)または平紐、あるいは数本の太白(たいはく)（太い絹糸）で結び綴じしたものである。用紙の折り方、重ね方は綴葉装(てっちょうそう)（列帖(れつじょう)装）、胡蝶(こちょう)装（粘葉(でっちょう)装）、袋綴いずれの方法でもよい。この装丁法はすでに平安末期から行われ、原装を伝えるものに『打聞(うちぎき)集』（山口光円旧蔵）が知られていたが、近年別種の装丁に改装されてしまったという。この綴じ方は今日でも神社仏閣や名所旧跡の写真帳などに多くみられる。綴葉装や胡蝶装を大和綴とする説もある。

［金子和正］

『遠藤諦之輔著『古文書修補六十年』（1987・汲古書院）』

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