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−	{{Infobox book	+	'''Tenyo Ltd.''' is a toy manufacturer in Tokyo, Japan founded by [[Akira Yamada]]. They specialize in magical goods and jigsaw puzzles. [[File:GeniiCoverV50N5.jpg|right|thumb|200px|[[Genii 1986 November]]]]
−	| title = Greater Magic	+
−	| author          = John Northern Hilliard	+
−	| pub_date        = 1938	+
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−	| editor          = Carl W. Jones	+
−	| illustrator    = Harlan Tarbell	+
−	| language        = English	+
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−	[[Greater Magic]]: ''A Practical Treatise On Modern Magic'' by [[John Northern Hilliard]] was a book of his manuscripts and notes were edited by [[Carl W. Jones]] and [[Jean Hugard]].	+
−	Dedicated to Angelo Lewis ([[Professor Hoffmann]]), author of [[Modern Magic]], it was released in 1938 as an encyclopedia of magic intended specifically for magicians, not the general public. It was only distributed and advertised within the conjuring world. It covers magic with cards, silks, billiard balls, sponge balls, cups & balls, coins, cigarettes and cigars, bills, ropes, the linking rings, mentalism, magic squares, apparatus magic, stage illusions, and more.	+
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−	In, 1932 [[Carl W. Jones]] came up with the title "Greater Magic". Hilliard loved the title, telling Jones to copyright it right away. Over the next three years Hilliard kept working on the book until his sudden death in 1935. Only a third of the book was complete, with a huge amount of material still residing in Hilliard's notebooks.	+
−	In the 1990s, a box full of old magic catalogs was sold at an auction in middle America. At the bottom of this box, and not even listed in the contents, were two old notebooks with hundreds of typed pages in brown leatherette bindings. They were the lost notebooks of [[John Northern Hilliard]].	+	The name of the company originates from the founder's father, [[Shokyokusai Tenyo]], who was a magician.
−	[[Greater Magic|Read more on the history of Greater Magic...]]	+	[[Shigeru Sugawara]] joined Tenyo in 1967.
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		+	[[Genii]] magazine usually does an article about their new products each year. The 2008 products were in the [[Genii 2007 December]] issue.
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		+	[[Richard Kaufman]] is publishing a book about the Tenyo company in 2014 called [[TENYO-ISM]].
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		+	[[Tenyo |Read more about Tenyo ...]]

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Revision as of 15:03, 26 January 2016

Tenyo Ltd. is a toy manufacturer in Tokyo, Japan founded by Akira Yamada. They specialize in magical goods and jigsaw puzzles.

The name of the company originates from the founder's father, Shokyokusai Tenyo, who was a magician.

Shigeru Sugawara joined Tenyo in 1967.

Genii magazine usually does an article about their new products each year. The 2008 products were in the Genii 2007 December issue.

Richard Kaufman is publishing a book about the Tenyo company in 2014 called TENYO-ISM.

Read more about Tenyo ...