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Show 5 handmade p t. The outstanding interest in Najio papumakm is that here may sitting before their vats, instead of standing as is th all other pzx of Japan where paper is formed by hand. Views of mJ jio mills may b studied in photographs 33 and 34.1 he monument shown in photograph 35 waserected by the papermaker of Najio in commemoration of the pioncer papermaker of the province. Th gentleman standing before the monument is Mr. Kadota, a merchant o and has al\\u)s bee Osaka, who collects items of a pa especially concerned with the handmadt pdpu mdumy of Najio he island of Shikoku was to be the next step in our journey in searc of information n.laung to Japanesc handmade paper fabrication. Thisislan lies dir of Japan proper, the southern port being Koch whic is anchLd o hnlm by travelling through the Kii Channel into the Ba e ocean voyage required about fourteen hours of very roug sailing, the small ship "Tenyumaru" (God be with us), leavin in the evenin and reaching the old town of Kochi the following morning. Mr. Makauchi of the Nigpon Shigyo Kaisha, met us at the wharf and we were driven to th Shironishi Kan, a low, rambling inn overlooking almost tropical vegetation ere, in this typical Japanese tavern, we were to reside during our sojour n Tosa. Besides visiting dozens of small one-vat mills in Kachi Prefecture e made a momugh m:pLLuun of the Tokuhir where we saw handmade pape = oo straw pulns e aroteds of oking thostra and forming the e being practically identical with that P mills although the paper was of a rather low quality, to be used locally 2 s posile datnaniet el Jo 2 paperaien ke V g ion, s posion; th sme procdurs s e tho ol bk of 115 i Kei The rare, ut wel by Gyolurn Sadabi (18071867, thov e Al rights reserved |
