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Show OL PAPERMAKIN IN CHIN AN JAPA 2 dressinghimselfin his finest and most elaborate robes he drank pofson. A wor of Iater date (Chou Tien Pow gives the following accountof Tsa Lun: "Evervbcdygrea(lvesleemsTsax un for hiscompetency,hemvvme now made from the barks o trees, The makersadore TvafLun as their eo people o and aftr numesouscenturieshe sl zespecie dred i ‘was situatedin the distric of Lei-yang and belong mdav e depanmem of Heng Chow, proviace of Hunan, Early wrier till remain :n the pool, at the west of the. heuse there could be seen the stone mortar tha had been used by Tsai Lun in the maceration of his material for papen'nak ing, This mortarwas| offmd tothe emperor in payment of some ground re ‘mortarwasstillpreservedasacuriosityinth T'ang Dynast (6:8-507A The honourtendered suchamode: lapphancevpokeh)ghlveflheesmem which TeaiLun and his invention were held by the emperor. un pora y and t the empire. The records of centuries fnllewing comam manv references t the use of paper, not only for writing and bibliographical purposes, but fo ornamental use in Chinese housesand temples Th eople of Japan had communicatio with K orea from early centurie it e from that locality, then past of China that the Japaese in th d fmvn th h payer mul Blamhet momh of the mghteenth year of th reignof the Empress Suiko, whomounted the throne n 593 A. D, a priest called Doncho,n(umed fiom Koreawitha collection ofbooksof 1ushce,(h and that he migh e been (hemven(or E st paper found in)apa belongs to the time of Suiko. The paper brought to Japan from Korea wa not strong and it tore easily, but no one knew how it had been made. Th .623A substance bas beena papermaking material. ln7og A Db Fathoreh Digitalimage© 2004 Marriott Library, Universiy of Utah. All ights reserve |