A movie approaching craftmen who make Japanese 'thinnest paper in the world'

A movie attached closely to a Japanese paper maker that manufactures "standard paper " as the world's lightest Japanese paper, which has been made for more than a thousand years, is published by the oversea video media Great Big Story . Whether manufacturers who have been making washi in Japan for a long time have been taken over by overseas media is in the special nature of the standard paper.

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It is said that the diameter of " Kouzo (楮)" fiber used as a raw material for Japanese paper is 0.02 mm.

It is only " Hidaka Washi " in Kochi Prefecture of Japan all over the world that has technology to make it into sheet "paper".

Washi made from this Hidaka Japanese paper is said to be "the thinnest Japanese paper in the world" ...

Even from the way the hand looks through, I can understand its thinness well.

There are Hidaka Japanese paper in Kochi Prefecture in Japan.

Mr. Hiroyoshi Shimizu, the representative director of Hidaka Washi, appeared.

"I am making a special Japanese paper called a journal book by using raw materials."

It is said that from the 7th - 8th centuries the textbook paper has a history of 1,000 - year - old.

"Knowledge necessary for making this special Japanese paper has been inherited from generation to generation"

Let's make literature book which is the thinnest Japanese paper in the world begins by purchasing raw material from farmers.

This is Kozo.

Kozo comes to the factory like a hay like this.

Looking up it is like this. At first glance it looks like a straw .

Then, boil it.

A large amount of kozo boiled up in the kiln at once.

Dongbon as it is in water.

Braised kozo is crushed into fine fibers, and then mixed with water and " something " ...

It is then molded into a thin sheet.

That was completed in this handbook.

"The finished paper has a high transparency, but because it is made up of long fibers, it is characterized by being somewhat supple."

Check the thinness of the paper

It was subsequently reflected in the National Archives of Japan in Tokyo. It is a place where the Prime Minister stores and manages important official documents transferred from ministries and agencies as historical materials.

The staff woman is spreading, it is exactly the Hiragana Japanese paper's letter paper.

I cut a thin handout book small, but what on earth do you use it ...?

"Since it is a thin Japanese paper, it is used for restoring and protecting restored objects that have deteriorated and become fragile."

The standard paper is mainly used in national libraries and museums.

In the famous places, the British Library in the United Kingdom and the Library of Congress in the United Kingdom. It is said that it is being used in Japan, such as the National Archives and the Tokyo National Museum .

"We are working on such manufacturing with a sense of responsibility."

"I think that it is a work that is proud for the people who are doing it together or those who take over this job in terms of challenging what everyone can not do" Mr. Zhenxi said The movie is over at.

In addition, the standard paper is also sold on Amazon.co.jp, and A4 size 10 sheets entered is 3240 yen including tax.

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