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Show pulp over a porous surface laid above the floor, thus forming a thin coatin of fibrous pulp ina more or less cven thickness. The process may be see in the two photographs 29 an 130 One of the gigantic sheets was use for a painting now in the Memoria Building, Waseda University, Tokyo dedicated to the late Okuma, cmmm of the University nd Premier o Japan. Only one sheet of the paper was required at the Univer other being given to Mr. Kadota, of Osaka, a collector of paper thovghiRully prescted bo/me a sechcnlof. ths uniue eamplelaFieh papermakers' cra i AEchice o kich Obamies sy iared haying the large bay and harbour of Tsuruga, and it was to this landin place that there came many of the carly Korean and other immigrant nent. The city of Fukui (meaning: "Happy Well" o g"), lying about twenty miles from the Bay of Tsuruga uries the seat of the daimios, or feudal nobles, of Echizen, wit their castles and armed retainers. Of these lords Matsudaira of Echize was one of the first to lead in liberal thought and the renovation of Japa through Western civilization. Until the year 1872 the various daimios issue paper money in many forms, values, thicknesses, and sizes, but all of thes notes have long since m\-n called in by the Tmperial government. As lat 867 there were no fewer i twenty-three kinds of paper notes an rony nmcslylc:ol'wma{,n in circulation. Much ofthis paper was of Echize orig n, for not only was this province renowned for its lhnllmg |mmn,, bu cight cent for paper, tea, and silk. It s Korean envoys were brought to Echizen to se paper m,dL and to ¢dmu the finished sheets produced by the Japanese craftsmen. In modern time the handma&lc papers manufactured in Fukui Prefecture amount to ove million m a yca.r, the industry giving full-time work to 287 me nd 493 women Thoroughly ‘amfiui that we had seen most of the papermaking o LA Al rights reserved |