"These photographs were all taken at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany in October of 2009. The majority of these teenagers depicted are participating in Cosplay (an abbreviation of costume role-play). 'Cosplayers' wear (and the hardcore often manufacture) costumes and accessories to represent a specific manga (comic book), anime (animated film), computer game or other digital youth culture character. Sources for the Cosplay shown in this book include DeathNote, Full Metal Alchemist, Hetalia, Narato, Pokemon, and Sailormoon. The Frankfurt Bookfair (the largest and oldest book fair in the world) sponsors a Cosplay Contest and anyone wearing Cosplay gets into the fair free of charge. Some of the youth depicted are dressed in the style of Emo-Goth (Emotional - Gothic) a fashion sub-culture associated with a pastiche of post-Punk/New Wave/Glam Rock and post-Heavy Metal Goth styles. It is important to understand that this is not Cosplay."--Marshall Weber.

• v. 1. Higashi Nihon hen.--
• v. 2. Nishi Nihon hen.

• The handmade papers of Japan.--The Seki collection.--The contemporary collection.--The watermark collection.

• The Silk Conditioning House, Yokohama
• Reserved reception room
• Premier reception room
• Gross weighing of raw silk before final conditioning test
• Drying raw silk samples for conditioning test showing conditioning ovens
• Winding test in testing room of the Quality Department
• Sizing test in testing room of the Quality Department
• Winding raw silk panels on inspection boards for seriplane test
• Performing "Test A" of evenness test, using hand serimeter
• Performing "Test B" of evenness test, using standard photographs
• Humidity and temperature controlling room
• Chemical laboratory

Photos of the Yokohama Silk Conditioning House mounted on black paper with typed captions.