Nokorimono was designed as a book which investigates the remnants and leftovers of one culture and how they have been reappropriated into another.

Rashomon, a film directed by Kirosawa, was about the difficulty in obtaining truth from multiple perspectives. The design of this book started from research on ancient Samurai and Japanese culture and what of that exists in present western culture, what has been reappropiated, what once was, what isn’t anymore, and what remains.

Readers of this book can contemplate the originality, reappropiation and hybridity of cultures. Tatami mats, Samurai culture, and Japanese paper were incorprated into the design of this artifact. Nokorimono revealed what people save & how cultures evolve.

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