Cut paper - Kiritsugigami

…It is a paper made by cutting a whole sheet of washi paper in half horizontally and joining several sheets together horizontally, and was widely used as writing paper in the early modern and modern periods. At the end of the Muromachi period and the beginning of the early modern period, kiritsugigami appeared, in which origami paper was cut in half along the folds and pasted together horizontally, and this developed into scroll paper in the early modern period. When writing a letter using scroll paper, the correct way to write is to hold the rolled paper in your left hand, hold it in the air, and roll up the paper one by one while running the brush with your right hand. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "continuous paper" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…全紙の和紙を横半截した切紙を幾枚も横につないで巻いたもので，近世･近代に書状の料紙として広く用いられた。室町時代の末，近世初頭に折紙を折目で半截して横にはりついだ切続紙（きりつぎがみ）が現れ，これが近世に入って発展し巻紙となった。巻紙を用いて書状をしたためる場合，巻紙を巻いたまま左手にもち，宙に浮かせて順次紙をくりのべつつ右手の筆を走らせるのが，正式の書き方である。…

※「切続紙」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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