Making Paper OGAWA in saitama
The OGAWA Japanese paper is made in OGAWA basin the foot of the mountain Chichibu.
And TUKI river flows through the south side of the town.
This river is rich, the water of this
river is beautiful.
This Japanese paper is made of these climate.
This Japanese paper is used for shoji paper and a wrapping paper, industrial arts paper mainly.
The OGAWA Japanese paper is called Hosokawa paper, and the history is old.
As raw materials of the Japanese paper, KOUZO(a paper mulberry),MITSUMATA(a paper bush),
GANNPI(Thin Japanese paper) is used.
These characteristics have a long fiber, and there is strength, and there is the luster, too.
These plants become the materials of the Japanese paper after the following processes.
Drying→Steam→Peel→Rub→Boil→Pound→Dissolve
it in the water of the viscous liquid
The photograph is making paper.
The craftsman making paper moves it many times with the top, down, the right, the left.
There are makes it the same thickness, about 300 sheets on 1day.
They need technology, and it is that experience more than three years necessary.
Like a photograph, pile up the paper which made.
And It dry and become the Japanese paper.
