Okonomiyaki – the name of this popular Japanese dish could be translated as »fried to order.« However, the text is not a cooking recipe, but an accumulation of text fragments that can be mixed freely like the ingredients of an okonomiyaki, put into new order or even omitted – just as you like.
Letterpress print using polymer plates in German and Japanese on bicchu-ganpi paper.
Accordion fold.
Illustrated with sauce-patterns printed by letterpress (German edition), as well as original drawings painted with a mixture of glue and ink (Japanese edition).
Two sheets of Korean oiled paper printed with calligraphy by the Oshimaya-Onda lantern workshop in Tokyo.
Transparent acrylic box with silkscreened title.
First edition of the German and Japanese text.
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32 pages (G) or 6 pages (J). 21 x 20 cm (G) or 20 x 20 cm (J)
Edition of 32 copies using Arabic numerals and 6 copies using Roman numerals
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Tokyo, 2010