Newer Japanese books in English?

gailprentice · Post by **gailprentice** » August 9th, 2010, 7:08 pm

I am about to place an order with Amazon.jp for a bunch of books. Some of the newer ones are Kawasaki's The Greatest Dream and Tomoko Fuse's newer ones: Unit Origami Essence, Unit Origami/Kusudama Fantasy, Stars/Snowflakes, and Floral Patterns.

Is there any way to know if any of these are slated to be published in English? I have some older books in my cart that I can be pretty sure will not be translated. If I can eventually buy an English version of books, I will wait. But I will only ever place one order with Amazon Japan because the shipping is so highto the U.S. so don't want to leave anything out when I have the chance.

Thanks!

bethnor · Post by **bethnor** » August 9th, 2010, 8:36 pm

as far as i know, there is sadly no way of knowing in advance if there will be a translation. between here and passionorigami's twitter, that is probably the closest to a "scoop" that you can get on any of those products. and there's basically been almost no discussion.

the most advisable course of action would be patience. it was probably 1-2 years before a translation of genuine origami occurred, and i don't think anyone predicted that. if a translation doesn't show up at that time, i would say it's safe to assume there won't be one.

all that said, as far as i know, none of kawasaki's "dream" series has been translated, so i doubt this one will be (this book would be the third). i would counterbalance this with knowing that it is unlikely that a different iteration of his rose is published here.

also, many of fuse's books end up being released in korean translations, which, for whatever reason, are usually cheaper than the japanese equivalents.

gailprentice · Post by **gailprentice** » August 9th, 2010, 10:12 pm

Thanks, Bethnor! I will order and will just try to figure out the diagrams. I have some Yoshizawa books in Japanese and Korean that I can figure out well enough so hopefully I can figure out Fuse, as well! I can't convince myself to be patient, I guess

andssl · Post by **andssl** » August 10th, 2010, 1:16 am

See here:

http://www.viereck-verlag.de/index.php? ... 5e0ec0086f

andssl · Post by **andssl** » August 10th, 2010, 1:21 am

Or here:

http://www.origami-usa.org/thesource/agora.cgi

Digit kawasaki in search button

gailprentice · Post by **gailprentice** » August 10th, 2010, 7:25 pm

Thanks, andssl! I ordered all my wish-list books yesterday - I am in the U.S. so my best bet was Amazon.jp. My average price per book was less than $25 so I did okay. I haven't don't origami in about six years so am making up for not buying any origami books in all that time