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Show the surface of the stone it was gathered together and beaten over and ove '\gd(n, a little water being thrown upon it from time to time, until finall was redu u.d tolong-fibred pulp. Photograph 32. Through the kind o and Mr. Mori T was fortunate in being able to add to m collection the woudm beaters shown in photograph 31, which the mould en we entered the small compact cottage; als e to acquire one of the moulds that the kindly ol mould-maker had constructed, shown in photograph 17 It was witha great deal of regret that we left beautiful Gifu and continued south on ourpdpunuklng journey. WhileI am primarily intereste in handmade. pflpu' and my visit to Japan was undertaken with this on my pleasure to inspect several machine paper mill j Cnmpany InOsaka we visited the Miyakojima and th wa mills, both modern plants with fine equipment, ploduung pape rqual to any machine-made e man\\hc( d in the world. In Osak iven in our honourby Mr. Minaguchi r many years Vi, uonkmxu s been an arden student of ancient papermaking, and his library of Oriental works on thi subject is pm\)db]y the most comprehensive i several of my own books in collection o Mr o i vlllagc o 4 From the photograp of the two woode beaters from Kamimakiit i be noticed tha they differ in construction from the long beating i that ar o [ the Japaese pri deict papermaing. In th e o 2lp in e v ume Wakoku Shishot Edzukush 1681) by Hishikavea At o implements arc long, squee tok, ot k the tapn besers of Sa D it oy e hi th Jikyoo Kubigashi, s d ‘e i te form of clung'\lod of tool s shown in the coloured prin Ty Mkt (7601040 i ing apear i s s Sl e unabeo e the imeo lac frgina inusei some partsof China Digitalimage © 2004 Marriott Library,University of Utah. Al rights reserved |