Workshop | - Part 8

AT-01 Washi Kobo Shōroku

AT-01 Awajitsuna Gami / Washi Kobo “Shōroku”

Awaji-island (淡路島), according to Japan myth, this is the first island of Japan. It has more than 1000 years of papermaking history. After the big bridge was built in 1998,…

TS-01 Osaki Seishisho

In a small village on the cliff edge in upstream of Niyodo-River, the proud Osaki family has been preserving the tradition of Tosa Washi. They are also farming Kozo by…

GK-01 Higashinakae Washi Kakou Seisan Kumiai

The Miyamotos makes the paper from their own cultivated Kozo and Tororoaoi. The raw Kozo material is bleached using heavy snow around the house. Because of the high quality and…

YO-01 Fukunishi Washi Hompo

They stubbornly keep the traditional way of making Uda-Gami (宇陀紙), which is used for the National Treasures. The workshop stands on the upland, overlooking Yoshino river. It looks like the…

EZ-01 Iwano Ichibei

In history, only five artisans were listed on the living national treasure of Washi. Mr Iwano Ichibei (9th) and his father (8th) are two of them. He is unquestionably the…

NJ-01 Baba Seishisho

Mr Baba Kazuhiko is the last artisan, who makes Gold-Leaf beating paper. Recently, most of the Gold-Leaf makers use glassine paper, very few makers still inherit their historic process of…

YK-01 Ueda Tesuki Washi Kojo

YK-01 Yokono Washi / Ueda Tesuki Washi Kojo

Mimasaka (美作), current a part of Okayama prefecture, has been known as a paper-making district since the 8th century. The name was described on the Shōsō-in(正倉院) document. At present, only…

NR-01 Narushima Washi Kougei Kan

Narushima is the northern end place of Washi making in Japan. Although there are more than 1000 years of history, it was almost disappeared recently. To keep the tradition, the…