A Life Of Ts'ai Lung And Japanese Paper Making (Signed)

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Revised editon. 12mo red paper wraps in glassine over color illus dj NF/vgdj: 106pp. Tipped in color frontis photograph. Illustrated throughout in black & white with photographs and drawings. SIGNED INSCRIBED by the author "For Mr. A.R. Darling and signed in Jap chars" dated April 16, 1970. History of paper making in Japan and the life of Ts'ai who is credited with the invention of modern paper, Text first introduces Chinese official Ts'ai Lung/Cai Long of the court of Emperor Ho of the Later Han Dynasty, ca AD 105, and his techniques and methodology. Chinese methods were introduced to Japan (via Korea) in 610, laying the basis of Japan's papermaking industry. 6 chapters: 1, A Life of Ts'ai Lung, The Inventor of Paper; 2, A Brief History of Japanese Hand-Made Paper; 3, Making Paper by Hand in Japan; 4, Suminagashi, Ink-Floating Paper or Marbled Paper; 5. Patterned Paper, Ebosho & Watermarked Paper; and, The First Machine-Made Paper in Japan. Author Kiyofusa Narita was the Director of the Paper Museum in Tokyo, Japan, and a scholar of Washi [handmade mulberry & other fiber] papers. Seller Inventory # abe220907a300

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