Orihon

Japan & Korea

As the Tang dynasty in China was highly influential in terms of technology and culture on its surrounding polities, particularly in Korea and Japan (known in Japan as Japanese: 折り本, rōmaji: Orihon), this style of binding eventually spread to those respective areas, where it was also similarly heavily associated with the printing of Buddhist sutras. Besides Buddhist texts, the accordion book style of binding also eventually became used for other types of writing. For instance, one of the most popular books to appear in concertina format in 12th-century Japan was the Tale of Genji. The accordion book style of binding also subsequently further spread into other regions such as Tibet and the Western Xia during subsequent Chinese dynasties such as the Yuan and Ming dynasties.