Archival photograph of stripping small branches from paper mulberry with a knife to get 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
Branches
Materials
Bark-paper mulberry bark
Cultural context/event
Gathering
Social group setting
Community
Location
Field
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