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