Japan Ingenious

A Compendium

This book is a much expanded version of the Japanese book Winners.
Book
2013
Written by Steve Cohen, Richard Kaufman
Work of Various
252 pages (Hardcover), published by Kaufman and Company
Illustrated with drawings by Earle Oakes*, Ton Onosaka
Language: English
81 entries
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Richard Kaufman Foreword on Ton Onosaka
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Masao Atsukawa It All Started with Magic Land on the Masao Atsukawa Prize
 		15
Masao Atsukawa Case Card card with different back in card case is predicted
 		17
Masao Atsukawa Warp 9 geometrical puzzle with a playing card that makes a full card face-down, but a piece is left over when assembled face-up
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Related to
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Hiroyuki Sakai The Volunteer Swindler five Dollar bill with slit is folded so it looks like two bills, when opened up bill has transformed to ten Dollar bill and other bills is back in wallet
 		23
Hiroyuki Sakai Hairband Mystery hairband penetrates thumb, more or less classic method with hairband instead of rubber band
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Hiroyuki Sakai A Transient Love Story magic tricks to seduce a person, see following items/steps
 		30
Hiroyuki Sakai Step 1: Approach divination of phone number, center tear
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Hiroyuki Sakai Step 2: A Present coin changes into flowers, with assistant
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Hiroyuki Sakai Step 3: Reach handling of Don Wayne's Room Service with room numbers on ten business cards
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Hiroyuki Sakai Step 4: JAB recipe for rice with sardines and ginger
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Hiroyuki Sakai Step 5: Propose ring vanishes and appears on person's finger, to propose
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Hiroyuki Sakai Extra Step: Strange Relationship two decks, on backs of chosen card are names of performer and spectator
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Impression Card Case
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Hiroyuki Sakai Inception bill placed inside paper sleeve with little flap, building on bill seen through hole vanishes and appears again
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Hiroyuki Sakai The Right-Angle Bill Mystery spectator holds on to three stacked bills and closes eyes, when eyes are opened again chosen bill is found at right angles to the other two in perpendicular position, Power of Darkness type
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Hiroyuki Sakai The Vanish Which Elevates Tenkai showing both hands empty while transferring one coin from hand to hand, pinky transfer to classic palm
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Hiroyuki Sakai Inner Inertia cards loaded on deck from inside of a wallet, in application a prediction card is added to top of a pile
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Hiroyuki Sakai Celebrity Torn and Restored Card one end of card signed by spectator and one by performer, torn in half and restored
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Inspired by
  • "Hoodwink" (Kenton Knepper, Ben Harris)
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Hiroyuki Sakai One Man Self-Levitation standing in a box, mirror
 		55
Tomohiro Maeda Zodea zodiac symbols on paper are folded and turn into letters, spelling a word, off-beat prediction
Related to
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Tomohiro Maeda Re-Psychle pen placed inside empty card case starts to move and writes name of selection
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Tomohiro Maeda The Angle of the Hypothesis picture of spoon and fork, images bend
Related to
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Tomohiro Maeda Out To Cut paper with illustration of pair of scissors is signed and placed inside a card case, when removed name of selection is cut into paper
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Hideki Tani Elevator Illusion two blank cards with four windows cut are held above deck, selection can be seen rising up through the windows, then card goes down again and is found reversed in the deck
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Hideki Tani Vanishing Wedding Band clean finger ring vanish
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Takanobu Ishida Card Tapestry Aces are fanned, one is named and Aces are found glued together in a row with chosen Ace reversed
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Takanobu Ishida E.T. Rope rope is wrapped around spectator's finger and is pulled free
  • Bonus Effect: Static Electricity Rope
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Takanobu Ishida Date/Time Cards clock formed and pen and cap used as handles, cards match value and suit and actual time
Inspired by
  • Mitsunobu Matsuyama's "What Time Is It Now?" 1974.
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Takanobu Ishida Magic Square Card Mystery packet cut off, magic square with some cards with the number of cut-off cards
Inspired by
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Kuniyasu Fujiwara Automatic Ace Triumph hands-off, dealing procedure, sixteen cards, parity
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Variations
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Kuniyasu Fujiwara Mr. Green's Prediction any last name named by spectator, eventually it is shown to be the only odd-backed card in a deck of blank cards with names on them
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Kuniyasu Fujiwara Slice! playing card with torn out hole in the center, ribbon placed on top, both cut with a knife, ribbon is restored
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Kuniyasu Fujiwara Bill Tear Illusion bill is torn using chopstick and restored
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Kuniyasu Fujiwara, Yoshiyuki Kimura The Flying Chopstick piano trick using chopsticks
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Kuniyasu Fujiwara Swizzle Stick Vanish swizzle stick vanishes while tapping it on receipt and reappears behind ear
 		114
Kuniyasu Fujiwara Original Card Quake card rise using a card perpendicular in the deck and moving it back and forth
Related to
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Michiaki Kishimoto Mind Sketchbook mental epic using large sketchpad, moving part
 		120
Michiaki Kishimoto Rubber Band Penetration different handling for Crazy Man's Handcuffs
 		125
Michiaki Kishimoto Blood Type Divination cards with letters of different blood types used, four-card brainwave, reversed and different back
 		126
Michiaki Kishimoto Four Card Surprise packet is cut and spectator and performer deal cards at the same time, card on top is selection and mates are found as kicker
 		128
Kazu Katayama Silk Card Lasso card rope using a handkerchief and a paperclip
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Kazu Katayama Aluminium Coin aluminium foil wrapper from chewing gum turns into coin
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Kazu Katayama Red/Blue Oil and Water 2x2
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Kazu Katayama The Silken Finger cut and restored handkerchief, with missing corner proof, sixth finger handling
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Ichiro Moriya Autumn Mystery leaf on bookmark penetrates sheet of glass, with variations
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Ichiro Moriya Money In Circulation bill balanced on rolled up paper starts to move
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Ichiro Moriya God of Romance four numbers are dealt, packets assembled and dealt again into four piles, four-of-a-kind on top which matches month of birth of spectator
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Ichiro Moriya One-Armed Tibetan Gambler performer tries to cut to four Aces, four cards are not Aces but form a Royal Flush when card previously selected by spectator is added
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Akira Fujii Fujii Reverse Assembly four cards and four coins
Inspired by
  • Joachim Solberg's "Reverse Matrix"
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Ross Bertram Slide Move with backs of fingers
 		169
Akira Fujii Jet Coins three coins across
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Variations
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Akira Fujii Muscle Pass Transfer
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Akira Fujii Muscled Click Pass
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Yuji Wada Three Different Coins
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Yuji Wada Flip Match matches visibly appear inside empty matchbook
 		179
Bona Ueki Phantom Drink Penetration Bona "Yasayuki" Ueki, plastic cup filled with tea is stacked with other cup and penetrates it
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Tomoyuki Takahashi One Hand Challenge Reverse card outjogged in packet is reversed behind back, reversed with two cards and squared with the packet
 		186
Tomoyuki Takahashi Fading Coin three imaginary coins, one is chosen and it becomes visible
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Variations
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Katsuya Masuda Double X Card Ace through Seven of Spades, two X on chosen card
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Shigeo Takagi Subtle Slop Shuffle Aces four Aces are reversed at the end
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Tenkai Matsuura Perfect Order Unshuffled without faro shuffles
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Inspired by
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Hideo Kato Piano Sans Keyboard no-touch version of piano trick
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Kennichi Kuroki Torn and Restored 2000 bill folded in tube, center covered with gum wrapper is torn and restored
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Kennichi Kuroki Sneaky Sneaker opening of shoe laces moved to outer end of shoes
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  • Genii, Feb. 1989
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Ryu Susato The Tokyo Penetration two bills are folded lengthwise and penetrate in clean manner
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Ryu Susato Ryu Susasto's Business Card Q-force incorporated in business card design with letters and symbols, credit information
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Kazuyuki Hase Two Pens With But a Single Thought spectator duplicates one of two two-colored drawings, performer divines which one
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Kazuyuki Hase The Color Out of Space four envelopes with symbols, chosen one divined
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Inspired by
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Hiroshi Sawa Submarine Coins three coins on table, travel from under the left hand to under the right hand one by one, presentation is that the coins are submarines that sink into the table and resurface under the other hand
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Ross Bertram Rubdown coin rubbed on table, vanishes
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Tony Slydini Imp Pass
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Hiroshi Sawa Ping Pong Pocus ping pong ball changes color twice, then paddle shrinks
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Hiroshi Sawa Marvelous Coin to Ring coin changes to finger ring
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Hiroshi Sawa The Copper Queen and Silver President both coins initialed, no extra coin, one coin in pocket and one balanced on first finger
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Hiroshi Sawa Balancing Finger Transformation coin balanced on finger, other hand goes over it and it changes, lapping
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Hiroshi Sawa The Sleeve Shootout one-handed production of handful of coins on the table, or growing coins (normal coins change into jumbo coins instantly)
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Variations
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Hiroshi Sawa Remote Control Coins Through Table into glass that is in lap, mat with table-edge hold-out possibilities
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Hiroshi Sawa Why a Big Purse? routine with silver and copper coins, purse, jumbo coin
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Click Pass Harvey Rosenthal?
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Richard Kaufman, Steve Cohen Origins
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Data entered by Lorenz Schär, February 2024.