Archival photograph of harvested and bundled paper mulberry, ready for steaming 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
Paper mulberry branches
Techniques of production
Cut-cut
Materials
Bark-paper mulberry bark
Cultural context/event
Resource collection
Social group setting
Community
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