I have been reading the medieval Japanese-inspired novel series by Lian Hearn, the Tales of the Otori on Calibre eBook viewer. But I don't care much for the existing covers I can find on Google. They're too ... elaborate for my tastes: I needed to make my own eBook cover for Across The Nightingale Floor . My idea was to have a single emblem—the heron kamon (family crest) of the Otori as the main decoration on the book cover and graphic accents on the virtual "spine" (changeable to other crests and color motifs relevant to the story for the remaining books). But first, I had to find a heron kamon. The Japanese word for "heron" is "sagi" . I googled for "heron crest" or "heron kamon" or "sagi kamon", hoping to find a suitable and authentic emblem to include in the cover. I found one , a triple-heron done in the paulownia (kiri) leaf style: I wanted the round look of the crane crests like the one seen on Jap...
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