Japanese notebook B5 week scheme

The ruler of this Japanese notebook is ideal for all who prefer to work with tables, because the pale white, beautifully smooth uncoated paper is printed with a 7-column scheme: per page a header in red and 33 lines in seven blocks in blue. Thus, the column book can be used in many ways - as a calendar, household or private logbook, for hourly, daily or weekly schedules and for everything else that requires the table form.
That the notebook is made in Japan, you can see, among other things, the paper label running across the spine, a typical detail for Japanese writing notebooks.

The outstanding characteristics and undisputed extraordinarily high quality of Japanese stationery have partly to do with the fact that Japanese writing is difficult to mechanise on a typewriter. The first typewriters were introduced at the beginning of the last century. In addition to Japanese syllable writing the Chinese characters called “Kanji” are common in Japan. The Kanji prove to be exceptionally difficult to reproduce. Until the introduction of the personal computer in the office, it was customary therefore to write business correspondence by hand, and one used the best stationery available to leave a good impression. The passion for extraordinary stationery has survived in Japan even if it is not used for official correspondence anymore. For daily notes, a paper like the lined note paper offered here is put to use. It‘s thread-sewn and features a spine reinforced with black and gold embossed spine tape. An obscure, if amusing side remark: By printing “containing best-ruled foolscap” the Japanese manufacturer came a cropper. Because none of these notebooks is in foolscap, the traditional Anglo-Saxon paper format somewhat larger than DIN A4.