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 ...

Nick Cladis, a professor at the University of Iowa, was granted to host a Japanese papermaking festival on Friday April 14, 2023. Special artists Masami Igarashi and Hideaki Taki came from Echizen, a ...

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 ...

he returned to Japan. He worked in fields including sales at another company, but he ended up having to take over the family business, and returned to papermaking at the age of 34. At the time ...

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 ...

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 ...