Kojiro Ikegami

KOJIRO IKEGAMI​​ (1908–1985), third generation in a line of professional bookbinders, was one of the few full-time practitioners of the craft in Japan. He repaired innumerable antiquarian books, many designated as national treasures or important cultural properties, at his workshop in the Tokyo National Museum. In 1979, he received a distinguished government award—the Sixth Class Order of the Rising Sun—for his contribution to the conservation of significant books in Japan’s history.