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Kamiko hanging to dry outside the Endō’s thatched house

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posted on 2025-01-22, 10:47 authored by Daphne Mohajer va PesaranDaphne Mohajer va Pesaran
The thatched roof house of Tadao and Mashiko Endō shows persimmon and crumpled paper called momigami drying outside their house. Tadao Endō, was eighth generation papermaker in Shiroishi and revived traditional methods of papermaking in his workshop. His paper was used for Issey Miyake’s Kamiko collection in 1982 and for monks’ kamiko in the Omizutori ‘Sacred Water Drawing’ annual ceremony at Tōdaiji Temple in Nara. Eleanor Burkett visited Tadao Endō’s workshop on several occasions, watching him making paper and listening to him talk about his process and his historic collection of artefacts made from shifu, kamiko and washi.  (text provided by Eleanor Burkett)

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Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

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EB01

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Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Cultural group

Japanese

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Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran, Eleanor Burkett

Country

Japan

Place

Shiroishi, Miyagi

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Temporality

1980

Date of creation

2022-09-14

Unique ID

2019SG04-EB01-0622

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