ECHIZEN, japan >> Kawakami Gozen, the goddess of paper, continues to inspire craftspeople in the Goka area of Echizen, Fukui prefecture, where the streets are lined with papermaking workshops. Legend ...

Stepping off the bus at the Gakko-iriguchi stop in Higashi-Chichibu Village in Saitama Prefecture, the first things to strike the eye are high-flying clusters of balloons, suspended like colorful ...

Washi Tales tells stories through the medium of traditional Japanese papermaking. Recycling Washi Tales is a performance project that tells stories through the medium of traditional Japanese ...

Villagers in Higashi-Chichibu, Saitama Prefecture, are riding high. Just one step out of its nearest train station and visitors are clued in to the fledgling celebratory mood that has taken hold of ...

The production of the Japanese paper peaked in the Edo period between the 17th and late 19th centuries but declined as papermaking was mechanised. Now, due to the westernisation of Japan, the washi ...

Performer Karen Kandel as 'papermaker' in 'Recycling: Washi Tales.' (Valerie Oliveiro) Elise Thoron: I first met Kyoko many years ago in Ireland a laboratory retreat in County Wicklow, where a ...