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Gokayama World Heritage Site/Japanese Paper Invention(和紙)

At a little roadside store in rural Nagano, a foreign tourist is miming a rice bowl with her cupped left hand. Firm in the belief that Japanese washi (paper — wa meaning Japanese and shi meaning paper) was made from rice, she waves her flattened right hand across the “bowl,” miming her desire for “sheets” of paper. Baffled by her gesture myself, I was at least able to communicate with her in English and ask what on Earth she was trying to buy. The local shopkeeper on the other hand was utterly perplexed; this bizarre customer seemed to be repeatedly miming that she didn’t want a bowl of rice! But, of course she didn’t, that was obvious.

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  1. BullDecember 28, 2020 at 5:07 PM

    Japanese Paper made out of rice, that is striking tips for me.
    Korean paper invention might have triggered Japanese one.
    or passed to them. Korean paper is made of certain shrub plant barked.
    Their process is quite similar with us.

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  2. BullDecember 28, 2020 at 5:11 PM

    Korean paper got made out of paper mulberry. Japanese have their own paper plant.

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