Archival photograph of local people harvesting paper mulberry, circa 1990s
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
A02
Rights owner
Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran
Cultural group
Japanese
Country
Japan
Place
Shiroishi, Miyagi
Item/object
branches
Techniques of production
Cut-cut
Materials
Bark-paper mulberry bark
Cultural context/event
General production
Social group setting
Community
Location
Field
Temporality
photo taken circa 1990s, 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