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Koo has photographed examples dispersed throughout museum collections around the world—from the British Museum to the Japan Folk Crafts Museum—creating a photographic archive of these remarkable objects

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with an exceptionally long history as a collecting object

ryoji arai painting op 11 英訳作業 Koo has photographed examples dispersedop. 11 Title: "I don't like this at all, but it's nice to be able to say something. " I wanted to draw each picture one by one and make a book with just those pictures. And I didn't want to just collect all the original drawings I'd done so far, without clearly defining the beginning and end like a picture book. I wanted to draw pictures that could be turned into a picture book later. From the interview at the end of "Picture Books Before They Became