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Also
read minoshi. Lit. mino paper. A generic term for handmade
paper *washi a produced
in Mino όZ (Gifu prefecture), one of the most important paper-making regions
in Japan. The oldest paper surviving in Japan dates back to year 702. The Shousouin Records SHOUSOUIN MONJO ³q@Ά refer to three paper making regions: Chikuzen }O (Fukuoka
prefecture); Buzen LO (Ooita prefecture); and Mino. Of these three mino
paper was considered to be the highest quality, since it is made from pure
mulberry fibres which bind uniformly to create a surface free of blotches
and irregularities. Production of minogami was originally believed
to be concentrated in the Ibi Kγ river basen. By the 13c the paper-making
techniques had advanced to the extent that almost all types of washi were
prduced in Mino. Among the best known are the thick *morishitagami
XΊ, the very fine *tengujou
Tο, *houshogami ς,
*uchigumori ΰά,
shoujigami αq, usugami , usushiro , and nokaore
ά. During the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, paper-making dominated the
economy of the Mino area and a very large paper-making town Ooyada εξc (now
Mino City) developed. In the Edo period the most important, representative
type of minogami was naogami Ό, also read jikishi,
used for sliding doors *akarishouji
Ύαq. Shoujigami needs to be translucent, with
a well ordered, faultless alignment of paper fibres. To achieve this, the
paper pulp in the frame was shaken not only vertically, as is usual, but
also from left to right yokoyuri ‘hθ, a special feature of the
Mino technique. Some Edo period sources also name shoinshi @ as
a very famous mino paper used for *shouji
αq. The term shoinshi was even used on occasion to refer to minogami.
In 1969 a group was set up to preserve traditional paper making in Mino,
and the so-called original minogami or honminogami {όZ, was
declared an important intangible cultural asset. Minogami occasionally
refers to one specific type of paper produced in the Mino region, as opposed
to being a generic term. In *ukiyo-e ’G, minogami was used for prints before 1760's, before the development of full-color printing *nishiki-e ΡG. Minogami is generally cut approximately 33 x 46 cm, and the major print formats *hangata »^ cut from it are: *ooooban εX», *ooban ε», and *hosoban Χ». In addition, a thin but strong minogami, which has been valued as a backing paper for book-binding, was often used for a master drawing by artists and for trial prints of full-color prints. |
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