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Show 1 like that of the paper mulberry, is decreasing, for while in the year 190 there were five million, seven hundred thousand kan produced, the production in 1923 fell to four million, nine hundred thousand kan. Mitsumata grows also in China, but the plants that T have examined in that countr seem to be ofa coarser nature than those of Japan, and the Chinese pape made from mitsumata bark s not at all comparable to the Japanese e canescens, Micisn. (Passerina gampi S. and Z.), of the family Thymelacaceas, woodcut 3, is also a mos excellent papermaking material of Japan, but it is not so universally use as either the paper mulberry or mitsumata. The gampi shrub is of wil growth and is related to spurge laurel (Daghine mezereum, L), its habitat i along the warm sca shores and in places not a great distance from salt water Unlike the paper mulberry and the mitsumata the gampi is not cultivated The shrub is of fairly rapid gmwm and often attains a hLighl of ten o more fect; the flower is small and of a reddish-brown colour, appearin the month of June. There arc Ahru‘ specics of Passerina: e leaf, oblong leaf, and the "dog-toothed" lcaf. The last named species is know in Japan as the hinotwo or hi e bark of the gampi makes unusuall fine i coiboying ottaleenstiasad iglossibat s batine stated es not rank with either the paper mulberry or the mitsumata i e pl‘oducuo m the eleventh century onward, bamboo has bm. a papermakin ma\crn[ in China, but in Japan it is not so commonly used as a fibre fo paper. The best bamboos of Japan (called: fake, pmnounccd ta-ka), fo papu-making are the two varieties known by the natives as Aachiku an dake The finest grzd:s of bamboo paper that are produced in Kwangtun ce, China, are fabricated from the species known locally as mau chu (Ph,vllomzch;x S (Carr.)H. de Lehaie), photograph 5, whil a low grad of paper, used principally for ceremonial purposes, is made from wong chuk the specific name of which has not been determined. For papermaking Digitalimage© 2004 arriott Library, Universiy of Utah. All ights reserved |
