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Show 7 on the mainland. Further visits in Osaka, Nara, Kyoto, and Nagoya comleted, we returned toTokyo afier a continuou journey of several thousan miles, with minute mspcc[lnnof well over a hundred Japanese handmad paper mills While we were invited tovisit every mill in each papermakin community, this was 1mpnsfi|ble asthere are literally thousands of the small one-vat mills where excellent paper is made by individual fam ¢ admirer of hand cmflsmamhlp who wishes to see Japanese pape g made, and who does not have the time to venture far from Tokyo will l)e delighted e papennzkmg village of Ogawa-Machi Saitam: mmun Phulugmp most interesting papermakin centre is not more than a two huun drm from the capital, and as thi district is the seat of a grez\l many individual mills, |hc paper enthusias cannot help being richly rewarded. Also the Imperial paper mill, on th outskirts of Tokyo, is of absorbing interest, as here may be scen the makin of the beautiful mitsumata "vellums." This plant, with its numerous ol wooden buildings, withstood the carthquake, and is, no doubt, the mos uulquc government institution in the world oroughly satisfied with my research work in Japan, it was my desir to sec hmndmadc aper fabrlcauon in Korea, and it was not long afte objective in view returning toTokyo that T set out wit ile in Tokyo I was invited to see the fine specimens of old Korea paper in the collection of Mr. Takashima, an ardent bibliophile. He eve most generously presented some choice examples to me. I found it difficult however, to ascertain, cither from him or from other authorities, justwher handmade paper was being fabricated in Korea at the present time; n oncin Japan seemed to have investigated the craft i I.hr:u newly-acquire country, and no precise information was forthcoming. Unlike Japancse and Chinese handmade paper, that made in Korea is not wel known in Europe or America, as very little has ever been exported, th Raend tenais making almost exclusive use Al rights reserved |