Najio paper

Japanese: 名塩紙 - なじおがみ
Najio paper

This is a type of washi paper made in Najio, Settsu Province (Najio, Shiose-cho, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture). It is also called Najio Ganpishi. There is a legend that papermaking was brought to this area from Echizen Province (Fukui Prefecture). It is characterized by using gampi (ganpi) as the raw material and mixing clays of different hues that are unique to this area, such as Tokubo clay (white), Amago clay (slight yellow), Jamame clay (light brown), and Gosun clay (blue) into the paper material. It became famous from the end of the Muromachi period (mid-16th century) under the name Doroiri Maniai, where Maniai means wide paper that fits the size of a half-ken (approximately 0.9 meters), and is also written as Maai, and was used for sliding doors and folding screens. Doroiri Maniai is also used for foil-stamping paper because of its heat resistance, and is also used for medicine bags and tearoom lining paper because of its insect-repellent properties. The very thin Najio paper was once used as holy sutra paper at the Honganji Temple in Kyoto. It is said that India paper was made by imitating this paper. In 2002 (Heisei 14), Tanino Takenobu (real name Tanino Takenobu, 1935-), the first Najio paper production technician to be recognized as a holder of an Important Intangible Cultural Property (Living National Treasure).

[Machida Masayuki]

[Reference item] | Ganpi paper

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

摂津国の名塩(兵庫県西宮市塩瀬町名塩)で漉(す)かれる和紙。名塩雁皮紙(なじおがんぴし)ともいう。越前(えちぜん)国(福井県)から紙漉きが伝えられたとの伝説が知られている。ガンピ(雁皮)を原料に、この土地特産の色相の異なる粘土を漉き込むのが特徴で、東久保(とくぼ)土(白)、天子(あまご)土(微黄)、蛇豆(じゃまめ)土(薄褐色)、五寸土(青)などの粘土が紙料に混入される。泥入間似合(どろいりまにあい)の名で室町時代末期(16世紀中ごろ)から有名になったが、間似合は半間(はんげん)(約0.9メートル)の間尺(まじゃく)にあう幅の広い紙の意味で、間合とも書き、襖(ふすま)や屏風(びょうぶ)に利用された。また泥入り紙は耐熱性があるため箔打(はくう)ち紙に賞用されるほか、防虫性のため薬袋(やくたい)紙や茶室の腰張り紙としても使われる。ごく薄手の名塩紙は、京都の本願寺の聖経用紙にされたこともある。なお、インディア紙は、この紙を模造してつくられたといわれる。2002年(平成14)名塩紙の製作技術者として初めて谷野剛惟(たにのたけのぶ)(本名谷野武信。1935― )が重要無形文化財保持者(人間国宝)に認定された。

[町田誠之]

[参照項目] | 雁皮紙

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