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Show as this would cause the sheets to adhere together. The amount of pressur and the length of time in the "press" depend upon the thickness of th paper the size of the sheets, kindo lp nori, and the temperature of th day Each variety of pa and: a slightly different treatment, so i not possible to lay down any specific rules for pressing. The piles bein pressed sufficiently, each separate sheet, while still somewhat moist, i stripped from the shifo and "pasted," or brushed, against a board for drying as shown in photographs 41 and 42. The drying is subject to the weather and the out-door method is used at all times except when it rains; I hav even seen rows of the boards, covered with paper, leaning against the low buildings when uu atmosphere was quite cold and the ground covere with snow. Photograp 43. In photograph 44 may be scen the mill yard o the Nippon Shigyo I{m.(lm, near Kochi, with the drying boards set in the ope against permanent metal supports. In looking down upon a papermaking village from surrounding hills, a most picturesque sight greets the eye, fo wherever one may look there are hundreds of the drying boards, cac with three o four sheets of paper upon it. Although this scems to me romamic subject for picturing, T have discovered but one Japanese coloure d-block print in which the drying-boards are shown - the print b Hekumv (1760-1849), entitled "Fukui Bridge in the Province of Echizen. 0od-engraving is one of the "Famous Bridges" serics, issued in hook nfclcvcn prints, and pubhshed by Yeijudoin 1827-1830. The wood-cu shows in the foreground a wooden bridge over which numerous people an pack-horse are passing; in the background may be scen the blue and re tile roofs of small cottages and many drying boards, each holding six sheet of paper, supported by poles of bamboo. It is strange that the Japancs wood-block artists, always secking picturesque settings, were not mor moved to make use of the pictorial aspects ofp1pcmmkmg in their prints but being themselves users of paper, they w y too close to th subject to realize or appreciate its possibilities as mamml for llustrating Al rights reserved |
