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Steps in Japanese papermaking

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posted on 2025-01-22, 10:49 authored by Daphne Mohajer va PesaranDaphne Mohajer va Pesaran
Archival image of the stages involved in Japanese papermaking (Japanese). An English description of these steps can be found in 2019SG04-A03-0068

Funding

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

History

Session

A02

Rights owner

Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Cultural group

Japanese

Country

Japan

Place

Shiroishi, Miyagi

Item/object

Explanatory image of stages

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

Intent

Papermaking

Date of creation

2020-01-24

Unique ID

2019SG04-A02-0052

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