Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan
by Lisa Katayama
List Price:
Our Price: $4.38
You Save: $10.57 (71%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $2.63 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Lisa KatayamaIllustrator: Joel Holland
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-02
ISBN: 0811862151
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Book Reviews of Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan
Book Review: More useful than you can possibly imagine!
Summary: 5 Stars
It's certainly about time we had something from Japan that goes beyond the famous "101 Useless Japanese Inventions" (funny, though). Now we have "Very useful Japanese tricks." I really like how Lisa tells us why the tricks work as well. And the vignettes for how the situations might arise are so funny!
I've had this book for several months now, and it only gets more and more useful and fun. It's improved my quality of life in so many areas -- in the margins, but it's these little things that make it so fun. The other day I spilled wine on some white clothing. No problem. I impressed my grandmother and family to no end by cleaning up their coffee and tea-stained cups and coffee-maker with orange peel and salt. My wife dropped an egg on the floor, and it was so easy to clean up the mess. In our household, "what does it say in the Urawaza book?" is now the standard first response to many situations. In the office, warmed-over coffee never tasted so good. I don't need to worry about garlic breath after lunch. And my plant is thanking Urawaza for saving its life, since it stayed home without me but didn't dry out.
I just wish I could hold more of the urawaza in my head so I'd be prepared for all sorts of contingencies on the road too. I've recommended this so many of my friends, who immediately rush to go get their own copy after I've recited some of the great tricks.
Definitely one for every household. This also makes a great gift! (I'm set for this Christmas season - I always have trouble finding something that's fun and useful)
Summary of Urawaza: Secret Everyday Tips and Tricks from Japan
Japan has a way of thinking that is just . . . different. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Tokyo-born journalist Lisa Katayama's collection of urawaza (a Japanese word for secret lifestyle tricks and techniques). Want to turbocharge your sled? Spray the bottom with nonstick cooking spray. Can't find someone to water your plants while you're away? Place the plant on a water-soaked diaper, so it slowly absorbs water over time. The subject of popular TV shows and numerous books in Japan, these unusually clever solutions to everyday problems have never before been published in Englishuntil now! Urawaza collects more than 100 once-secret tricks, offering step-by-step directionsand explanations in an eye-catching package as unconventional as its contents.Reference Books
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Reference Books
Health Online: How To Find Health Information, Support Groups, And Self Help Communities In Cyberspaceby Tom Ferguson
Da Capo Press; Published: 1996-03-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $0.49
Price in other shops:
The Merck Manual of Medical Information: 2nd Home Edition (Merck Manual of Medical Information Home Edition)by Mark H. Beers
Pocket; Published: 2004-05-04; Paperback; Book
Best price: $14.15
Price in other shops:
Enciclopedia Medica de la Salud: Conocimiento de la Medicina y Asesoramiento Medico Para Toda la Familia / Medical Encyclopedia of Health (Spanish Edition)by H. Lucas
Art Blume S.L.; Published: 2001-09; Hardcover; Book
Price in other shops:
Can You Drill a Hole Through Your Head and Survive?: 180 Fascinating Questions and Amazing Answers about Science, Health, and NatureSkyhorse Publishing; Published: 2011-06-21; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.23
Price in other shops:
The Johns Hopkins Complete Home Guide to Symptoms & Remediesby Editors of The Johns Hopkins Medical Letter Health After 50, Simeon Margolis M.D. Ph.D.
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Published: 2004-09-15; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.50
Consumer Health Information Source Book: Sixth Edition (Consumer Health Information Source Book)by Alan Rees
Greenwood; Published: 2000-01-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $34.95
Price in other shops:
The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia (Plume)by Kenneth N. Anderson, Lois E. Anderson
Plume; Published: 1985-11-27; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Price in other shops:
American Medical Association Concise Medical Encyclopediaby American Medical Association
Random House Reference; Published: 2006-12-12; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.74
Price in other shops:
Where Does It Hurt?by Susan C. Pescar
Ballantine Books; Published: 1985-03-12; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $15.00
Similar Books and other products
Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brainby Tom Stafford, Matt Webb
O'Reilly Media; Published: 2004-11-29; Paperback; Book
Best price: $10.12
Price in other shops:
Pocket Ref 4th Editionby Thomas Glover
Sequoia Pub; Published: 2010-08-31; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.48
Price in other shops:
Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things: How to Turn a Penny into a Radio, Make a Flood Alarm with an Aspirin, Change Milk into Plastic, Extract Water and ... a TV with Your Ring, and Other Amazing Featsby Cy Tymony
Sales BOM - PARENT Item; Andrews McMeel Publishing; Published: 2003-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops:
The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodiesby Patrick Buckley, Lily Binns
Harper Perennial; Published: 2008-09-23; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.00
Price in other shops:
Forbidden Knowledge: 101 Things NOT Everyone Should Know How to Doby Michael Powell
Adams Media; Published: 2007-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.15
Price in other shops:
Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brainby Ron Hale-Evans
O'Reilly Media; Published: 2006-02-13; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.08
Price in other shops:
Book of Secretsby Thomas Eaton
Andrews McMeel Publishing; Published: 2008-10-21; Paperback; Book
Best price: $9.99
More Show Me How: Everything We Couldn't Fit in the First Book Instructions for Life from the Everyday to the Exoticby Lauren Smith, Derek Fagerstrom
Harper Design; Published: 2010-10-05; Perfect Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.74
Price in other shops:
70 Japanese Gestures: No Language Communicationby Hamiru-aqui
Stone Bridge Press; Published: 2008-10-01; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $4.99
Price in other shops:
Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know Instructions for Life From the Everyday to the Exoticby Lauren Smith, Derek Fagerstrom
Harper Design; Published: 2008-10-28; Paperback; Book
Best price: $13.00
Price in other shops: