{"id":4010,"date":"2020-04-29T13:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T04:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2020-04-29T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T05:02:46","slug":"ez-echizen-washi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/site\/district\/ez-echizen-washi\/","title":{"rendered":"EZ- Echizen Washi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<strong>At this present time, Echizen is one of the biggest Washi district in Japan. According to the myth legend in the times of the Emperor Keitai (\u7d99\u4f53\u5929\u7687: early 6th century), a beautiful woman appeared from the upstream of Okamoto River, then she taught how to make papers to the villagers. The village located in the mountain, therefore the place was not good for rice farming. Washi making became effective income for the poor villagers. Villagers worshipped her and call her \u201cKawakami Gozen (\u5ddd\u4e0a\u5fa1\u524d)\u201d, enshrined her in \u201cOkamoto-Jinja (\u5ca1\u592a\u795e\u793e)\u201d. The main building of Okamoto-Jinja (1843) is the listed \u201cNational Important Cultural Property\u201d, it is wooden complicated work, always well maintained by villager&#8217;s appreciation to her. <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>As the indubitable record, Echizen was recorded of five paper making country on the Shosoin document in AD737. The first nationwide banknote was made by them in 1875. Through history, Echizen has influenced the other washi district, and it is still going on.<\/strong>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-tabs--label-0\" data-index=\"0\" aria-selected=\"true\" aria-controls=\"fl-tabs--panel-0\" aria-expanded=\"true\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\">\t\t\t\tWORKSHOPS\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-tabs--label-1\" data-index=\"1\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"fl-tabs--panel-1\" aria-expanded=\"false\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\">\t\t\t\tDESTRICT INFO\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\tWORKSHOPS\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4010 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/ez-01-workshop-exterior\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/EZ-01-Workshop-Exterior-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/EZ-01-Workshop-Exterior-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/EZ-01-Workshop-Exterior-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3244'>\n\t\t\t\tEZ-01 Iwano Ichibei\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\tDESTRICT INFO\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"202\">Code<\/td>\n<td width=\"561\"><strong>EZ<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Name<\/td>\n<td><strong>Echizen Washi (\u8d8a\u524d\u548c\u7d19)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Center Place<\/td>\n<td><strong>Fukui Pref., Echizen-City, Shinzaike-Cho \/ Otaki-Cho<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"202\">No. of Workshop +(Public Facility)<\/td>\n<td><strong>19 + ( 3 )<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Core Products<\/td>\n<td><strong>Echizen Kizuki Hosho \/ Torinoko shi \/ Dan shi<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Main Material<\/td>\n<td><strong>Kozo, Gampi<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Origin of the Name<\/td>\n<td><strong>Old Country Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"202\">Historical Origin<\/td>\n<td><strong>6C by Kawakami Gozen (by myth)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Golden Age<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Designate (National)<\/td>\n<td><strong>The Traditional Crafts (METI,1976) \/ Important intangible cultural property (2017, for Echizen Torinoko shi)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Designate (Prefecture)<\/td>\n<td><strong>The Important Intangible Cultural Properties of Fukui Pref. (2016, for Echizen Torinoko shi)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this present time, Echizen is one of the biggest Washi district in Japan. According to the myth legend in the times of the Emperor Keitai (\u7d99\u4f53\u5929\u7687: early 6th century), a beautiful woman appeared from the upstream of Okamoto River, then she taught how to make papers to the villagers. The village located in the mountain, therefore the place was not good for rice farming. Washi making became effective income for the poor villagers. Villagers worshipped her and call her \u201cKawakami Gozen (\u5ddd\u4e0a\u5fa1\u524d)\u201d, enshrined her in \u201cOkamoto-Jinja (\u5ca1\u592a\u795e\u793e)\u201d. The main building of Okamoto-Jinja (1843) is the listed \u201cNational Important Cultural Property\u201d, it is wooden complicated work, always well maintained by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poj.co.jp\/paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}