Archival photograph of local people using a custom-designed and -built machine to beat the fibers into a pulp, 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
pulp
Techniques of production
beaten
Materials
Bark-paper mulberry bark
Cultural context/event
General production
Social group setting
Community
Location
Workshop
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