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ART INDUSTRY AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS. 



The most notable kinds of Japanese paper are given in the fore- 

 going table. The detailed description is as follows : — 



I. Yoshino-gami, named after the town Yoshino, in Yamato (see 

 vol. i. p. 471), is not made there, however, but in Nibu, 4 ri distant. 

 This last is the collective name of six little villages in a tributary- 

 valley of the Yoshino-gawa. In Nibu and vicinity this fine paper, 

 celebrated throughout all Japan, and so much used in the lacquer in- 

 dustry, is called Urushi-koshi, i.e. lacquer filter, lacquer press. The 

 Broussonetia, whose bark fibre is most carefully worked up, is much 

 cultivated in the neighbourhood. The expressed bast-mucilage of 

 Hydrangea paniculata, here called Tororo (glue), and Nori-no-ki 

 (paste tree), serves as the cement. The mould is a net made of 

 finely wrought bamboo sticks (taken from the sections between two 

 knots of bamboo cane), bound with silk thread. The size and 

 weight of the paper are given in the table. It is so fine that 50 

 sheets (i Jo), or 6*12 square meters, weigh only 35 grammes, but 



