If you have
ever bemoaned that a treasured a book was falling apart, then you will relish
seeing how this Japanese craftsman masterfully restored a tattered 1,000-page
dictionary near perfect condition. Well, this is an episode of the Japanese
show called Shuri, “Bakaseru” means “The Fascinating Craftsman” featured Nobuo
Okano, an artisan who specializes in old books. Thus during the ten minutes
long segment, the craftsman demonstrates how the well-loved English-Japanese
dictionary was brought back to new life. It has had fairly a history and served
the owner from his junior high years through his adult life. Now that his
daughter is entering college, he wants to pass the book along to her.
Okano
starts the restoration by cleaning all of the old glue from the book’s spine and
repairing pages of maps included in it. Though they cannot be returned to a
untouched condition, they are glued to paper and now have a solid base. Then,
he comes the most tedious part of the whole process. Okano unfolds hundreds of
bent page corners with a tweezers, separately ironing each of them flat shape.
Once that’s he done this part, the book is looking much in a better shape, but
there’s still much work to do. The tips of the pages are stained with purple
ink, and so he uses a guillotine book cutter to trim those unsightly edges.
Moreover constructing a fresh cover is the last step, and he embellished it
with the salvaged title piece of the original book. The process ends of episode
expressions the happy and thankful customer giving the dictionary to his
daughter. If you want see the video below to see just how Okano completed this
incredible restore, please click on the below link.
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