Tenkai's publication

[MitsuMatsu]

Is there a pdf version of "Tenkai Manipulative Card Routine" (1945, Honolulu, The House of Magic) available somewhere? It seems that Abbott's later sold it as "Tenkai's Manipulative Card Routine".

[JimKane]

Yes, Abbott's did re-print it as an 8.5"x11" 11 page manuscript with lots of line drawings. It's a very detailed routine, and the instructions are quite detailed as well; and is thankfully presented in multiple phases, which breaks down the whole routine. I'd give this one an A+ in terms of both the routine itself, and, the quality of the instructions. It would take the average magi quite sometime to learn and master Tenkai-san's routine to be "presentation perfect"; so this one's not an easy-breezy routine to learn - you're going to work hard for this one - and, you'll have to really want to learn it to get through all the moves and details - but, it's worth it! It's up there with Shimada's Billiard Ball routine in terms of intricacy; if you are familiar with that routine. If I can answer any specific questions you may have about the routine itself, feel free to PM me.

[Philippe Billot]

If you have bought The New Tops in DVD, you can find the complete routine in Volume 32, february, 1992, page 25.

[Richard Kaufman]

The drawings in the manuscript are by Tenkai. The whole act was rewritten in more detail and republished as a hardcover book in Japan in the early 1970s, I believe, which is extremely difficult to find. Shigeo Takagi might have been the author.

[MitsuMatsu]

If you have bought The New Tops in DVD, you can find the complete routine in Volume 32, february, 1992, page 25.

I found the issuet. Is it okay to assume that everything is included in this issue? Thanks a lot.

[MitsuMatsu]

Jim Kane-san, thank you for your kind explanation about it. Very helpful.

[JimKane]

Glad to be of whatever help I could to you in your quest for information, MitsuMatsu.