Silk manuscript

Japanese: 帛書 - はくしょ（英語表記）silk manuscript

It is pronounced "hakusho." A book written on silk cloth. In ancient times, before the invention of paper, silk came to be used as a calligraphy material, and brushes were commonly used to draw with ink. Since bamboo and wooden tablets were bulky and heavy and inconvenient to carry, silk appeared as an alternative, but silk cloth was expensive and unsuitable as a calligraphy material. Relics have been discovered in ancient tombs in the Western Regions, and in 1972, a large number of silk scripts, including "The Art of Warring States" and Laozi, were discovered at Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan Province.

Source: Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 4th Edition Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 5th Edition About Information

Japanese:

「はくしょ」と読む．絹布に書かれた書物．古代に紙の発明以前，書写の材料として絹が用いられるようになり，墨で描くのに筆が一般に用いられた．簡策（竹簡，木簡）はかさばって重く，携帯に不便であったので，それに代わるものとして登場したが，絹布は値段が高く，書写の材料としては不適当であった．その遺品は西域地方の古墳から発見されており，1972年には，湖南省長沙の馬王堆から『戦国策』や老子のおびただしい帛書が出現した．

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