One piece of unwrinkled washi and one piece of wrinkled momigami washi. The wrinkled sheet can be used for clothing, and senka-shi is the specific size and thickness of paper used for the paper kimonos worn at Tōdaiji. This image shows a comparison of the sizes before and after wrinkling. before wrinkling, a piece of senka-shi measures W31 cm x L42.5 cm, while wrinkled (momigami) measures roughly W30 cm x 41 cm
Funding
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
History
Session
T01
Rights owner
Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran
Cultural group
Japanese
Participants
Yūko Tokuriki, Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran
Country
Japan
Place
Shiroishi, Miyagi
Item/object
Sheets of paper
Techniques of production
Crumpled
Materials
Bark-paper mulberry bark, Washi
Materials alt
agar agar
Cultural context/event
Ceremony
Social group setting
Interviewer-interviewee
Temporality
Late 20th-century, worn during the series of rituals at Tōdaiji Temple in Nara that takes place every year in March