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SOGENSHA Inc.
| Address | Sogensha Bldg. 4-3-6 Awajimachi Chuo-ku Osaka-shi Osaka, JAPAN ZIP:541-0047 |
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| Representative Name | Keiichi Yabe |
| Annual Revenue | closed |
| No. of Employees | 50 |
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B5 size
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Country of manufacture: printed in Japan
Material / component: Paper
Year of manufacture: 2020
Product tag: None
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Description
| Written by Tomohiro Kobayashi and Tomonori Santo / Photographs by Hideharu Yamada *Contents This is an unprecedented visual illustrated book of nuts, which introduces approximately 300 species carefully selected from among the world's nuts, which are full of amazing functional beauty* and formative beauty, with priority given to visuals and the wonder of plant life, along with beautiful and powerful newly taken photographs. The book is the first of its kind. All nuts are accompanied by explanations with basic and miscellaneous information, as well as columns on the transition and evolution of plant taxonomy, the distribution of nuts around the world, and their uses. *Table of Contents Introduction Part I. Collecting Acorns / Walnuts / The Three Sequoia Brothers / Pine Cones of the World / Various Beans / Various Palms / Leucadendrons / Eucalyptus / Baobab *How are plant [species] determined? Part 2: Explore Dancing in the wind / falling while spinning / moving by attaching to animals / drifting through oceans and rivers / bursting into flight / spreading by heat from drying or wildfires *How do they take on such unique shapes? Part 3: Forming Scaling / Stretching Thorns / Twisting * Twisting / Flowering / Opening Mouths / Nature's Vessels / Nature's Beads / Round Shapes / Spindle Shapes / Bumpy Shapes *Nut map of the world *How are nuts used? *Storage of nuts Conclusion References *Acknowledgements Index |
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*Contents
This is an unprecedented visual illustrated book of nuts, which introduces approximately 300 species carefully selected from among the world's nuts, which are full of amazing functional beauty* and formative beauty, with priority given to visuals and the wonder of plant life, along with beautiful and powerful newly taken photographs. The book is the first of its kind. All nuts are accompanied by explanations with basic and miscellaneous information, as well as columns on the transition and evolution of plant taxonomy, the distribution of nuts around the world, and their uses.
*Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Collecting
Acorns / Walnuts / The Three Sequoia Brothers / Pine Cones of the World / Various Beans / Various Palms / Leucadendrons / Eucalyptus / Baobab
*How are plant [species] determined?
Part 2: Explore
Dancing in the wind / falling while spinning / moving by attaching to animals / drifting through oceans and rivers / bursting into flight / spreading by heat from drying or wildfires
*How do they take on such unique shapes?
Part 3: Forming
Scaling / Stretching Thorns / Twisting * Twisting / Flowering / Opening Mouths / Nature's Vessels / Nature's Beads / Round Shapes / Spindle Shapes / Bumpy Shapes
*Nut map of the world
*How are nuts used?
*Storage of nuts
Conclusion
References *Acknowledgements
Index
■内容紹介
果実や種子のうち乾燥して保管できるものを広く「木の実」と捉え、驚くべき機能美・造形美にあふれた世界の木の実の中から、ビジュアルや植物の営みのふしぎさを優先して厳選した約300種を、美麗で迫力ある撮り下ろし写真とともに紹介する、これまでにないビジュアル木の実図鑑。すべての木の実には基本情報から雑学もまじえた解説を付すほか、植物分類学の変遷や進化について、世界の木の実分布や活用方法などのコラムも充実。
■目次
はじめに
第1部 あつまる
ドングリの仲間／クルミの仲間／セコイア3兄弟／世界の松ぼっくり／豆いろいろ／ヤシいろいろ／レウカデンドロンの仲間／ユーカリの仲間／バオバブの仲間
●植物の「種」はどのように決められているのか？
第2部 ひろがる
風に舞う／回転しながら落ちる／動物にひっついて移動する／海や川を漂流する／はじけ飛ぶ／乾燥や山火事の熱で拡散する
●どうしてこんなユニークな形になるのか？
第3部 かたちづくる
鱗をまとう／棘をのばす／ひねる・ねじれる／花ひらく／口をひらく／自然の器／自然のビーズ／丸いかたち／紡錘のかたち／でこぼこのかたち
●世界の木の実マップ
●木の実はどのように利用されているのか
●木の実の保管について
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