This past week I had done some of my own research on the 4 hole Japanese bookbinding style. I found out that the 4 hole Japanese bookbinding is actually a subtype of fukuro-toji or in other words "pouch binding", this is where the books sheets are folded along the fore-edge and sewn along the open holes near the spine.  The 4 hole bookbinding was particularly popular and important in the east Asia culture, working best with their style of paper, and was ideal for the single sheets used at that time. Though we are using a very basic style of bookbinding I found more examples that the binding in itself can be an artwork. 



We can see that we can get many interesting shapes and styles built within the bindings and will function the same way as a standard binding would. 

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