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Beating Hibiscus root to make dispersant (neri)

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posted on 2025-01-22, 10:49 authored by Daphne Mohajer va PesaranDaphne Mohajer va Pesaran
Archival photograph of Tadao Endō (1913-1997) beating the roots of the Hibiscus flower (tororoaoi) in a hand-carved wooden drum in prepartion for papermaking, circa 1950s, photo likely taken by Nobumitsu Katakura

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

A01

Rights owner

Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Cultural group

Japanese

Country

Japan

Place

Shiroishi, Miyagi

Item/object

Dispersant

Techniques of production

beaten

Materials

Bark-paper mulberry bark

Materials alt

Hibiscus (Abelmoschus manihot) Root

Cultural context/event

General production

Social group setting

Husband-wife

Location

Workshop

Temporality

photo taken circa 1950s, harvest and material processing normally takes place in winter time around January. Papermaking was traditionally winter work for farmers who couldn’t grow crops in the wintertime

Intent

Papermaking

Date of creation

2020-01-24

Unique ID

2019SG04-A01-0019

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    Keywords

    Archivalpapermakingwashivatdispersant

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    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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