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Show 3 writing their complicated characters. The old classical Chinese scholar, wit his hatred for Western innovations, clings to the hair brush and ink-cake and deplores the transformation that his clegant calligraphy is under gcmg but through the inevitable alteration in the mode of writin characters the entire papermaking industry of the country may in time rev x tionized ile Japan is also experiencing a decided change in every aspect o life, (he skillful artisans of the island empire have kept more nearly abreas with the times in making their handmade papers, and in recent years thei Papers have been aday o t0 such avariety of special commercial uses tha many of the hundreds of small mills throughout the country may be assure ofa continuance. This would be particularly true if the present wage scal remains unaltered, for it is, after all, chiefly through low labour costs tha the handmade paper industry of the Orient is able to exist in competitio with the machine While, as before stated, the moulds of Japan are more complex tha those of any other part of the Orient, the formula of their construction an their ultimate use in forming sheets of paper, are practically the same a in China and Korea. The Japanes have in late years, however, give thought to such commeri I necessities as more rapid production and th adaplal)ilily of certain styles of moulds to pzruculzr 1‘cqu|rcmcms. Ther re a number of types of moulds in usein Japan,but on my recent paper mnkmg journeyin Lhat country, wherewe inspected over a hundred differen mills, T noticed that two distinct styles dominated, each of which will b described in detail The most common type of mould used in Japan is distinguishable fro all others by the "deckle, "or upper sugeta,? being hinged to the lower sugeta e et e of v ords, el e s el e mcaning ba s "docle or k,,....m Shrom plp witinti i o i . ol o Al rights reserved |