I have been reading up on them, not so much because I wanted to trade them but just to understand how they worked. I notice the guy who does TA in the Weekend FT quotes them and a few of the people who come on Bloomberg at the weekend use them too. I never really understood them- also sharescope has them as an option and just looking at them at face value- I stuggled to see what they were really doing.
Last week I bought Nicole Elliots book on them, its not the best TA book ever written but to give a basic insight into how they work its not bad. The book gets a bit of a slagging on Amazon in the review bit, but I feel I understand them a little better- all the Japanese names for the lines I find a bit hard to remember (then again I can't remember what I had for tea last night at the best of times) . The book is called Ichimoku Charts, an introduction to Ichimoku Kinko Clouds and is published by Harriman Trading- ISBN 1-897-59784-3. You can pick it up for about half printed price through some of the Amazon Market place dealers. I know there will be stuff ont he web about them but I prefer reading from a book where I can put stickies in and go back to when I am looking at stuff.
Plus I have to say I like her style- when she is on the telly she always strikes me as ever so slightly nuts and I quite like that!
HTH
Kenny