Although the Mino washi was made widely in Mino county, nowadays most of the workshops are sitting in Warabi area. This is the last workshop in Ueno area, where is little upstream of Itadori-river from Warabi.
He makes various papers with his rich experience, especially focusing very thin “Usu-Mino paper (薄美濃紙)”. The thin paper is required not only high-skilled scooping work (recently done by his daughter) also pasting on wooden board skill is required, done by his wife, who is another master artisan.