Japanese Paper

Question 1

竹紙

Answer 1

ちくし - paper made from bamboo barks or baby bamboo

Question 2

竹簀

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たけす - a tool to form a sheet of paper, made by bamboo splints

Question 3

縮緬

Answer 3

ちりめん - crepe paper

Question 4

楮紙

Answer 4

こうぞがみ - kozo paper, also ちょしがみ
穀紙 (こくし, Heian Period term)

Question 5

梶の木

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かじのき - broussonetia kajinoki, kozo, paper mulberry

Question 6

檀紙

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だんし - lit. “Sandalwood paper”. Originated Nara Period, currently used as high grade wrapping paper for ceremonial rites. Thick, elegant, white kozo paper. Also called “michinoikugami’. Present danshi is furrowed or creped but is relatively new development

Question 7

礬水紙、礬水引き

Answer 7

どうさがみ、どうさびき - paper varnished with dousa

Question 8

越前奉書

Answer 8

えちぜんほうしょ - high quality paper produced in Echizen (today’s Fukui Prefecture)

Question 9

榮紙

Answer 9

えいし - a paper of which the surface is leveled and smoothed by rubbing, optimized for writing

Question 10

吹き染め

Answer 10

ふきぞめ - blow-dyeing

Question 11

襖紙

Answer 11

ふすまがみ - thick paper used for surface of fusuma panels

Question 12

簀

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す - a mat used to form paper, usually bamboo but sometimes miscanthus

Question 13

雁皮

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がんぴ - Diplomorpha sikokiana Nakai, harvested Feb to May when water content is high. Fine and glossy fiber. Shorter fibers than kozo

Question 14

御用紙

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ごようがみ - official paper

Question 15

箔置き紙

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はくおきがみ - paper with gold foils

Question 16

箔置き

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はくおき - to add foil

Question 17

斐紙

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ひし - lit. “beautiful paper”, refers to gampi

Question 18

細川紙

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ほそかわし - catch-all term for kozo washi produced in Ogawa-cho, Saitama for permanent records

Question 19

熟紙

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じゅくし - paper with additives

Question 20

生紙

Answer 20

きがみ - paper without additives

Question 21

唐紙

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からかみ - lit. “Chinese paper”, patterned writing paper introduced from China

Question 22

空押し

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からおし - embossed paper

Question 23

重ね継ぎ

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かさねつぎ - paper decoration techniques by cutting and pasting

Question 24

切り継ぎ

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きりつぎ - cutting and patching, splicing

Question 25

紙縒り

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こより - paper string

Question 26

雲紙

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くもがみ - cloud-patterned paper, used for long narrow tanzaku and square shikishi poetry cards. A decorating technique of overlayed dyed fibers in a cloud design on the top and bottom of the wet sheet

Question 27

間似合紙

Answer 27

まにあいがみ、まにあいしい - “makeshift paper”, made by adding clay or other minerals to gampi fibers. Sturdy and used for fusuma and byōbu, as well as Nara ehon ( Muromachi period illustrated books)

Question 28

墨流し

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すみながし - marbling

Question 29

麻紙

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まし - hemp paper, usually ramie

Question 30

美濃紙

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みのがみ - a generic term for handmade paper produced in Mino

Question 31

三椏

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みつまた - Edgeworthia papyrifera Sieb. et Zucc. Bush native to China, brought to Japan during the Edo Period. Characterized by fine-grained soft, pliant, and lustrous fibers

Question 32

水玉紙

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みずたまがみ - decorative paper made by applying a fine layer of colored paper (often blue) to a white sheet. Drops of water splashed onto the blue paper make holes in the upper sheet to reveal the white base

Question 33

孟宗竹

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もうそうちく - moso bamboo, mao zhu (Chinese), a temperate species of giant timber bamboo native to China and Taiwan, widely distributed in Japan south of Hokkaido

Question 34

流し漉き

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ながしずき - discharge paper making, Characterized by ejecting excess pulpstock from the mold made possible by the use of neri

Question 35

ねり

Answer 35

General term for vegetable mucilage used in washi such as Tororo-ai

Question 36

媒剤

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ばいざい - binder (nikawa)

Question 37

西の内紙

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にしのうちがみ - special Nasu kozo paper made by the Mito clan, named for Nishinouchi, Ibaraki. Widely used and was famous as a ballot paper during the Meiji Period

Question 38

糊空木

Answer 38

のりうつぎ - Hydrangea paniculata, Sieb., deciduous tree of Saxi-fragaceae family. Inner bark used for neri