A5 genko yoshi notebook standing closed on a plain surface, composition-style cover with a tiled illustration field and a label plate.

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Genko Yoshi Notebook

Genko yoshi paper: fixed cells for one character each, eighteen rows to the page at a 9.17 mm pitch.

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Softcover, French link sewing. Printed and sewn to order.

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Specification

Type: Notebook
Trim: 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages: 120
Leaves: 60
Sheets: 30
Signatures: 6 × 20pp
Spine: 6.86 mm
Paper: white
Ruling: genko
Ruling pitch: 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
Rows per page: 18
Dating: Undated

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Genko yoshi replaces the running line with a grid of boxes, one character to a cell. The pitch runs 9.17 mm, eighteen rows to the page. The box does something a ruled line cannot: it holds the character to a fixed size instead of letting it grow or shrink across a line.

The cells do not care which script goes inside them. Kanji, kana, Hangul practised stroke by stroke, or a Latin hand drilled for consistency all sit inside the same box the same way. What the grid enforces is proportion, not language.

A box does not correct a stroke order or a proportion by itself. It only gives the same box back every time, so a mistake stays visible instead of drifting off the page unnoticed.

What is inside

Grid: 109pp; Fixed character cells at 9.17 mm pitch, eighteen rows to the page.
Reference and furniture: 11pp; Conversion tables, emergency numbers, and the pen test leaf that closes the block.

In every book

The same six pages open every book: your details, who to call, the signs to point at when you have no shared language, and the map. They sit at the front because the moment you need them is not the moment to be flicking through.

How to use it: One page describing this book, not a different one.
This book belongs to: One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back.
My details: Blood group, allergies, who to call. Written once, carried everywhere.
Emergency numbers: Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival.
Point at this: A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language.
World map: Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart.
Conversion tables: Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book.
Pen test leaf: The last page, printed for it on purpose. Every notebook is used this way; printing it deliberately is cheaper than losing the last leaf to it by accident.

The film

Page by page

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.

What is inside this book?

Five pages from the Genko Yoshi Notebook laid out as cards: a genko grid page, a conversion table, an emergency page, a world map page, and the pen test page. — Five pages rendered straight from the print file: the character grid, a conversion table, the emergency page, the world map, and the pen test leaf at the back. The cell is the product. A box drawn a fraction too small crowds every stroke that follows it.

Specification card for the Genko Yoshi Notebook listing 109 grid pages, 9.17 mm cell pitch, 18 rows, 120 pages total, A5 trim. — One hundred and nine pages ruled into fixed character cells, eighteen to a row, at a 9.17 mm pitch. Eleven pages of reference furniture: conversion tables computed from definitions, emergency numbers checked against two independent sources, and the pen test leaf at the back. A5, 120 pages, 6.86 mm across the spine.

Computed from definitions — 25.4 mm to the inch — and not copied from anywhere, so every row can be checked by anyone holding the book. — Genko Yoshi Notebook — Conversion tables

Forty countries, taken from Wikidata property P2852 (CC0), agreed across two sources, every row carrying its QID. Numbers change and a book does not — verify locally on arrival. — Genko Yoshi Notebook — Emergency numbers

One page for your name and number, so a book that goes missing can come back. — Genko Yoshi Notebook — This book belongs to

A pictogram grid captioned in English above and Indonesian below, for when there is no shared language. — Genko Yoshi Notebook — Point at this

Natural Earth 110m, public domain, equirectangular, with UTC hour meridians computed from the projection rather than from a timezone database. For orientation and for pointing at, not a navigation chart. — Genko Yoshi Notebook — World map

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Try the ruling on paper first

The same ruling exists as a free, ready-to-print sheet. Print one, write on it, and decide whether the pitch suits your hand before you order the book.

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