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Title: The industries of Japan : together with an account of its agriculture, forestry, arts, and commerce. From travels and researches undertaken at the cost of the Prussian government
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Rein, J. J. (Johannes Justus), 1835-1918 Rein, J. J. (Johannes Justus), 1835-1918. Japan nach Reisen und Studien. V. 2. Land- und Forstwirthschaft, Industrie und Handel. English Hodder and Stoughton, publisher
Subjects: Industries Agriculture Art, Japanese
Publisher: London : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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m together in severalworkshops. Figure 14 is borrowed from his sketch given there.As we were told in answer £0 purinquiries concerning the manu-vfacture of the Katas that it was a trade secret, Herr von Brandtyat my suggestion, bought several used and worn-out sheets, an-prdivided them between myself and^our deceased friend, Dr. Ff.Ritter, for further investigatrpn. Two days later each of us, in \LJJspite of the fact that we had followed wholly different paths, couldreport to the surprise of Herr von Brandt, as a-result of our chemi-cal and microscopic examinations, that these brown Katas weremade up of pieces of old used-up Broussonetia-bast paper (in mycase they consisted of old receipts), pasted on each other andtogether ; that these had been strongly compressed and ringedin several directions with the wrapping sheets and the press, andfinally had been saturated and coloured with Shibu (p. 183). I then betook myself with this result and the old receipts Kein, Japan. II. Plate XIV.
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Japanese leather-paper. PAPER INDUSTRY. 411 obtained from the Katas and made legible, to one of the manu-facturers of Chirimen-gami, whose place we had visited, and myinterpreter displayed the results of our investigation. The answer,reduced to one sentence, was, that it was useless to hide anythingany longer from the Sen-sei.1 This had the desired effect. Theman led us into a room and showed us his Oya-kata (matrix) orKi-gata (wooden mould). It was a board 5 to 6 cm. thick, 90 cm.long, and 30 cm. broad, of hard Sakura wood (Prunus psendo-cerasus), resting on two supports. This board was most carefullygrooved lengthwise with regular furrows 2 millimeters deep andabout the same distance apart. In using it, a large sheet of cardboard is saturated with a pastesolution, and then laid lengthwise on this form, and with a bonefolder pressed into every furrow of the foundation, a work whichdemands a great deal of time and patience. When dry the formis firmly imprinted and the sheet is furrowe

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