Archival photograph of the home and workshop of Tadao and Mashiko Endō, in Takanosu, Shiroishi. This is the entrance to their home, visible are drying shibori-dyed paper cloth (momigami) and persimmons drying, 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
paper cloth
Materials
Bark-paper mulberry bark
Cultural context/event
Building
Location
Home
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