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Japan culture center - Traditional Imported Japanese hand made Japanese paper, washi is made from natural Japanese mountain ingredients like cedar, mulberry and maple. There is nothing as beautiful as Hand Made Washi Paper. Washi paper is unique, because the way it is made.
Washi is the Japanese word for the traditional papers made from the long inner fibres of three plants, wa meaning Japanese and shi meaning paper. As Japan rushes with the rest of the world into the 21st Century, and more modern technologies take over, machines produce similar-looking papers which have qualities very different from authentic washi. As of the fall of 2008, there remained fewer than 350 families still engaged in the production of paper by hand
