The series of events, titled “The Future of a Tradition: Asian Craft, Iowa Innovation, and Japanese Papermaking,” is an International Programs Major Project Award winner hosted by the University of ...

The centuries-old craft of Japanese papermaking has traveled across time and regions—and Hiromi Paper is committed to keeping that tradition alive. This hidden gem offers a gateway into the ...

It was one of about 1000 paper items collected as part of an investigation of Japanese papermaking. Increased literacy in Europe had led to a critical shortage of paper, and wood pulp paper was ...

name writing in Japanese and a display of traditional Japanese papermaking by the UA Book Arts program. A representative of Japan’s consulate general will also be in attendance. The theme of the ...

Working on her artist’s statement, I suddenly had an insight that what I wanted to create with Kyoko is a theater piece about Japanese paper making itself, the history and philosophy behind it. What ...

Japanese paper with a thickness of just 0.02 millimeters, making it semitransparent, emerges from a papermaking machine in the village of Hidaka, Kochi Prefecture. (Mainichi/Masatoshi Maekawa ...

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