Draft:Side-stitched binding

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Side-stitched binding (Chinese: 線裝; pinyin: xiàn zhuāng, Korean: 선장, seonjang; Japanese: 袋綴じ, fukurotoji) is a traditional bookbinding format of East and South East Asia region; China, Korea, Jpan, and Vietnam. It is also occasionally described as a form of stab binding to refer Japanese style decorative binding. It is commonly considered as an representive format of traditional Asian manuscript. This form was born in China 14th century and became the dominant traditional book format in China and near countires.

In China, it is common that the inner 2 holes are closer than the 2 outside holes. Even in Korea and Japan, there are lots of manuscripts with this style, but usually they were imported from China. The two countries describe it as a Chinese style binding.

Chinese: 包角, Korean: 포각, phogak

This method add small piece of silk or paper to cover the corners of the inner book block.

This method adds 2 holes to each corner of the book. The additional holes allow for extra hooks in the corners, enchancing stability. Since, the corners are the most deteriorated part of the book in usage, this method was helpful to use the book more longer in the repository.

It was known as that this method had been frist developed in Kangxi Emperor era(1654 - 1722) and spreaded to near region Korea and Japan. Therefore, the method called by "Kangxi method"(Chinese:康熙式, Korean: 강희식, Ganghui-sik, Japanese:) Later, this method influenced the decorative binding technique of Edo period in Japan.

In Edo period, actively developed merchant economics influnced to various part of the society and it yield the various decoration techniques in many asepcts. In bookbinding, Japanese used the space between the main binding hole and back corner of the book to make a pattern.

Hemp-leaf binding, (Japanese: , asano-ha toji) Tortoise Shell binding, (Japanese: , kikko toji)

This decorative binding now becomes a characteristic of traditional Japanese binding and there are several modern bookbinders focusing to implement various patterns on the book.

In Qiang dyansty, the empire should manage the huge amount of the manuscripts in the government. In this circumstance, several new methods were created for enhancement and repairing old manuscripts in the government library. In Kangxi Emperor era(1654 - 1722), Kangxi method was born and it enhances the corner of the book with additional hole.

After the side-stitched binding was imported from China, it had replaced the major binding format of traditional Korean manuscripts.

One characteristic of Korean book is that the size of the book is very huge comparing to China and Japan. Meanwhile in China and Japan most of the books were bound with 4 , 6, 8 number of the holes, Korean books had odd number of holes; 5, 7.