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Tenkai Ishida Palming One Card. Tankai's Method "Tenkai" misspelled in title
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1938 202
Tenkai Ishida The Tenkai Color Change
1938 212
Tenkai Ishida The Tenkai Knots three knots vanish
1938 613
Cliff Green, Tenkai Ishida Interlocked Production here credited to Green but it's not his actual method but presumably Tenkai's which was worked out after seeing Green perform, for credit information see Cliff Green's 1961 write-up
Related toVariations 1940 159
Tenkai Ishida Palming One Card: Tenkai's Method (too) brief
1940
The Jinx (Issue 110)
654
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve credit in "Cut the Cards", p. 24
Variations 1940 9
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Rope Through Neck loop formed behind neck
Variations 1941 ca. 58
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai's Reverse Cards Mystery
Also published here 1941/27 215
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
Related toVariations 1941/27 216
Tenkai Ishida Optical Reverse
1945 22
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve crude handling
1948 14
Milton Kort The Drop Vanish coin is dropped from the right hand into the left hand, also as a switch and as a pass
Related toVariationsAlso published here 1952 25
Tenkai Ishida Devaluation half dollar to quarter
Variations 1952 117
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Dye Tube Technique several silks change color when pushed through paper tube
1953 2
Tenkai Ishida Knots Supreme - Tenkai Silk and Tapes grandmother's necklace
1953 4
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Three Dice Trick three dice picked up and number arrangement on them changes, paddle move with three dice in pyramid configuration
Variations 1953 8
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Two Penny Trick
Variations 1953 10
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Pennies Point Transfer
Variations 1953 10
Tenkai Ishida Back Clip fourth finger pinch
1953 10
Tenkai Ishida Two Coin Moves - Number 1 coin apparently pushed into left fist, sponge ball type
1953 12
Tenkai Ishida Two Coin Moves - Number 2 coin apparently dropped into left hand
Variations 1953 12
Tenkai Ishida A Follow-Up coin vanishes from silk, with ditch in breast pocket
1953 12
Tenkai Ishida False Transfer a bit like a retention vanish perhaps, unclear
1953 12
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Card Flight
VariationsAlso published here 1953 14
Tenkai Ishida Book Break in context of a one-hand turnover
1953 16
Tenkai Ishida One-Hand Turnover and Fan small packet, with one double
1953 16
Tenkai Ishida Small-Packet Bottom Palm palming bottom two cards during display sequence
1953 17
Edward Marlo, Tenkai Ishida Left Hand Side Steal see Note 4 on p.58
Related toVariations 1957 16
Tenkai Ishida The Tenkai Palm position and some applications in the next pages
Variations 1957 73
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai's Colour Change
1959 43
Cliff Green The Interlocked Card Production credit information
  • The Original Version
  • The Push-Up Method
Related toVariations 1961 122
Tenkai Ishida Lighted Cigarette fake lighted cigarette
1961 80
Tenkai Ishida The Tenkai Pennies
Related toVariations 1966 363
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Pennies Point Transfer
1966 363
Herb Zarrow Penny and Nickel Transposition
Inspired by 1966 373
Aldini, Tenkai Ishida, Harry Bernard Fooled Monte Two card monte routine
1969 34
Aldini, Tenkai Ishida Remote Control Randomly placed card placed face up into deck, found next to previously selected card
1969 36
Juan Tamariz Inflación Monetaria coin grows by rubbing, hands otherwise empty
Inspired by 1969 23
Dr. Jacob Daley Daley's Left Hand Steal From Center Of Deck No. 335, seems similar to Tenkai's method
Related to 1972 93
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai's Four Ace Extra Card Steal No. 416, addition of top card with thumb as out-jogged cards are stripped out
1972 113
Hank and Coin Horizontal Click Pass No. 477, coin audibly travels to coin in handkerchief
Also published here 1972 133
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1973 134
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai's Copper-Silver
Also published here June 1973 627
Tom Sullivan Coin Vanish coin dropped in other hand
Inspired by Aug. 1973 645
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Pennies Transfer pointing
Sep. 1974 793
Rick Johnsson Kamikazee Koins one of two coins (copper and silver) penetrates table, see p. 786 for credit information
Inspired byRelated to Sep. 1974 794
Tenkai Ishida Book Break
1975 172
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Turnover Palm
1975 72
Tenkai Ishida, Martin Gardner Twistover Optical Revolve
1976 42
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1976 12
Tenkai Ishida The Tenkai Palm
1976 78
Tenkai Ishida Coin And Playing Card how to hide a coin behind a playing card
1978 171
Tenkai Ishida Überraschende Tuch- und Billardball Produktion silk production after showing both hands empty (bundle on thread behind hand), then ball appears
Also published here
  • Genii, Dec. 1959
Mar. 1978
Intermagic (Vol. 5 No. 1)
26
David Stahl BirdCage Vanish free-handed card vanish, to Tenkai and then lapped
Inspired byRelated to 1978 10
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1980 8
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1980 47
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1982 69
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1982 523
Curtis Kam Tenkai Tossover coins shown in both hands, they are secretly switched, one a copper/silver
Inspired byAlso published here 1982 4
Mike Bornstein M.B. Card Production from top of the hand, variation to Cliff Green /Tenkai's method
Inspired by 1982 44
Ross Bertram Tenkai Ishida
1983 141
Tenkai Ishida, Ross Bertram The Tenkai Palm Placement correct position
1983 141
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
Feb. 1984
Spell-Binder (Vol. 3 No. 34)
668
Tenkai Ishida, Frederick Braue Sidesteal (After Tenkai) demonstrated by Charles Kohrs (1937)
1985 18
U. F. Grant, Tenkai Ishida Card Vanish spectator remembers card at number, when counted down again it is no longer there
1985 23
Tenkai Ishida, Frederick Braue Tenkai Secret Add "Fred Braue Handling" (1936)
1985 12
Albert Goshman, Tenkai Ishida Tankai Vanish "Tenkai" misspelled in title
Related to 1985 143
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Pinch
1986 109
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1986 246
John C. Wagner, Ross Bertram, Tenkai Ishida Wagner Clink Pass
1987 88
Tenkai Ishida, Jay Sankey, Richard Sanders Pointing Transfer Move
Related to 1987 31
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai's Three Dice updated routine, three dice picked up and number arrangement on them changes, paddle move with three dice in pyramid configuration
  • Basic Technique
  • Routine
Inspired by 1988 1
Tenkai Ishida, Joe Berg Joe Berg and Tenkai's Silk Knot Vanish Tenkai's handling of the Berg Vanish
Inspired by
  • "Berg Knot" (Here's New Magic, 1937)
Related to
1988 9
Tenkai Ishida Vanishing Silk Knot with recounting of a Tenkai performance
Related to 1988 1
Tenkai Ishida Surprise Silk Vanish silk rolled up between hands vanishes, detailed explanation
Also published here
  • Genii, Vol. 22 No. 7, Mar. 1958
1988 8
Tenkai Ishida Silk Production multiple silks appear in bare hands, with ball gimmick
1988 13
Tenkai Ishida Flying Queen updated handling
Inspired by 1988 21
Tenkai Ishida Book Break in context of a one-hand turnover
1988 22
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Palm during display sequence of two (really three) cards
  • Plot & Structures of Tenkai Palm (in context of this routine)
1988 28
Tenkai Ishida Phoenix Bill Vanish bill is placed in sheet of paper
1989 193
Tenkai Ishida The Rope Through Neck
1989 39
Tenkai Ishida, Shigeo Takagi Tenkai Optical Revolve Handling
1990 48
John Carney, Tenkai Ishida Tenkai-esque "A Center Steal Handling", very similar to the Jack Hecht method
Related to 1991 208
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1992 90
Tenkai Ishida Card Flight de Tenkai translation
Also published here 1992 132
Tenkai Ishida Book Break in context of a one-hand turnover
1992 136
Tenkai Ishida One-Hand Turnover and Fan small packet, with one double
1992 136
Tenkai Ishida Small-Packet Bottom Palm palming bottom two cards during display sequence
1992 138
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Pennies Point Transfer
1992 5
Tenkai Ishida, Michael Close The Left Hand Peek Steal
1993 52
Tenkai Ishida Shell Display showing both sides
1993 44
Tenkai Ishida, Martin Gardner Gardner-Tenkai Reverse
1994 102
Tenkai Ishida Palming One Card: Tenkai's Method better description
Related to 1994 1143
Tenkai Ishida Optical Move brief
1994 231
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1995 26
Marc Serin One-Kai one-handed optical revolve
Inspired by June 1995
Magic (Vol. 4 No. 10)
62
Bob Farmer The Trapez Switch
Variations Winter 1996 26
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
Spring 1996 73
Tenkai Ishida, Martin Gardner Twistover (Optical Revolve)
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 1 (Issue The Magic of Paul Harris)
56
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai/Goshman Pinch Switch
1996
The Art of Astonishment — Book 2 (Issue Close-up Entertainer)
146
Marcelo Contento Noose-Thru rope through neck, loop formed behind neck
Inspired by Dec. 1996
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 4)
74
Tenkai Ishida Optical Reverse
1997 146
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1997 72
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1997 82
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1997 109
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
1997 183
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Move Optical Revolve
Related to 1997 325
Tenkai Ishida Optical Reverse
1997 70
Tenkai Ishida Halsdurchdringung rope through neck
1997
Intermagic (Vol. 21 No. 3)
113
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Optical Revolve
1997
Labyrinth (Issue 7)
34
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Pinch
Jan. 1997
Magic (Vol. 6 No. 5)
68
Steve Mayhew, Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Optical Revolve variation
1998
Labyrinth (Issue 8 - Part 2)
24
Milton Kort Kort's Center Steal Steal card from center of deck into left hand full palm after spectator signs card
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here
  • Abracadabra, vol. 27, no. 695, May 23 1959
1999 5
Baltazar Fuentes Peeked Card to Full Palm
Inspired by 2000 3
Tenkai Ishida, Masao Atsukawa ダブルリフト (Double Lift) Double Lift handling with thumb break, top or bottom
2001 6
Masao Atsukawa 天海のフライングクイーン (Tenkai's Flying Queen) based on Card Flight by Tenkai, homing card plot, Queen keeps coming back
Inspired by 2001 18
Tenkai Ishida Card Flight Just the illustrations for the original Card Flight routine from Six Tricks by Tenkai
Related to 2001 25
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
2002 20
Tenkai Ishida Pivot Break / Book Break
2002 111
Tenkai Ishida Optical Turn
2002 239
Steve Draun Speaking Volumes
Related to June 2002
Genii (Vol. 65 No. 6)
24
Tenkai Ishida Escalón de Tenkai book break, small packet
2002ca. 24
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Palm
2003 56
Tenkai Ishida Pivot Break
2003 1247
Tenkai Ishida, Arthur H. Buckley, Edward Marlo Book Break Turnover Glimpse Uncredited in the notes
2003
Twenty Years Of Magic (Issue Amazing Tricks)
22
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Optical Revolve
2003 20
David Williamson, Tenkai Ishida Optical Reverse Variation
2003 24
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
2004 177
Tenkai Ishida Step Break credit information
2004 75
Edward Marlo, Tenkai Ishida Pivot-Step
2004 311
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
2004 47
Daryl Money Transfer three coins across
Inspired by Sep. 2005
Genii (Vol. 68 No. 9)
85
Tyler Wilson, Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve Variation
Inspired by 2006 72
Tyler Wilson Matrimoney two coins travel across one by one with borrowed finger ring, ring ends up in wallet, ungaffed
Inspired byAlso published here 2006 85
Tenkai Ishida Book Break
2006 228
Tenkai Ishida Optical Reverse
2006 181
Tenkai Ishida, Harry Lorayne The T/L Move variation of Tenkai move
2007 85
Andi Gladwin Flip Reverse It Alternative to Tenkai Optical Revolve move
Related to 2007 9
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
2007 76
Tenkai Ishida, Arthur H. Buckley, Edward Marlo Book Break Turnover Glimpse
Inspired by 2007 62
Tenkai Ishida Pointing Transfer
2007 97
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Move
2008 292
Arturo de Ascanio The Restless Lady la dama inquieta, First Version 1970
Inspired byVariations 2008 22
Tenkai Ishida The Tenkai Turnover Book Break Turnover
Also published here 2008 27
Albert Goshman, Tenkai Ishida Goshman Pinch
2009 10
Tenkai Ishida Reverse Card Mystery Move Optical Revolve move for Triumph
Also published here 2009 15
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Revolve
2009 16
Jay Sankey, Richard Sanders, Tenkai Ishida Tenkai's Pointing Transfer Variant Done with spongeballs
Related to 2010 50
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
2010 55
David Williamson, Tenkai Ishida Optical Reverse Variation
2010
El Manuscrito (Vol. 3 No. 12)
336
Tenkai Ishida Optical Reverse
2011 485
Patrick Page The Multiple Colour Change
Inspired byRelated toAlso published here 2011 72
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Pinch
2011 17
Dan Buck, Dave Buck Direct Bottom Palm card tossed in deck from behind and put in full palm
Inspired by Oct. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 10)
63
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
2012 4
Tenkai Ishida, Patrick Lehnen Tenkai Vanish same as Stahl's BirdCage Vanish
Related to 2013 6
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Revolve
2013 32
Tenkai Ishida Book Break Turnover
2014 218
Tenkai Ishida, Arthur H. Buckley, Edward Marlo Book Break Turnover Glimpse
2014 45
Tenkai Ishida Book Break without credits
2016 23
Tenkai Ishida Empalme Tenkai del centro
Related toAlso published here 2017 63
Jeff Altman The Rotisserie Move same procedure but different handling for Tenkai's Optical Revolve
Inspired by 2018 23
Tenkai Ishida Book-break Turnover
2018 239
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Pennies Move
July 2019
Elixir (Vol. 2 No. 2 (Winter #2))
155
Larry Jennings, Tenkai Ishida Bold Optical Revolve
2020 247
Tenkai Ishida Tenkai Turnover Book Break Turnover
Also published here 2020 79
Alexander Hansford Tenkai Palm Variation into angly perpendicular cop position from center, overhand shuffle while holding card out
Inspired by 2021 177
Nathan Colwell Tap Top Turnover Variation of Tenkai Optical Revolve
Inspired by 2021 28
Tenkai Ishida Book Break
June 2022
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Florida Issue Part One)
59
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
June 2022
Elixir (Vol. 3 No. Florida Issue Part Two)
134
Dai Vernon Interlocked Production from private lecture notes by Ernest Shattock
Related to 2022 77
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve
Also published here
  • MAGIC, July 2005
2022 419
Tenkai Ishida Optical Revolve illustrations don't seem to match
2022 66