Paper - Ryōshi

Japanese: 料紙 - りょうし
Paper - Ryōshi

Paper for writing. During the Heian period, when large amounts of paper began to be consumed by the upper classes, the quality of paper became even more important in order to write poetry beautifully, and it became the subject of aesthetic values. Among them, dyed paper from the Nara period was formalized as colored paper, and by combining the techniques of flowing paper, which allows for beautiful and thin papermaking, with dyeing techniques, a wide variety of paper developed as art and crafts, including paper with patterns such as Uchigumori (Uchigumo), Tobikumo, and Ramonshi, processed paper using gold and silver sand, cut foil, and Noge, and patched paper using techniques such as suminagashi, cut and tsugi, toritsugi, and lapsing. These are also related to the development of calligraphy, and many masterpieces remain to this day.

[Machida Masayuki]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

書きものをするための紙。平安時代に上流社会で多くの紙が消費されるようになると、料紙は詩歌を美しく書くため、さらに紙質が重んじられるようになり、美意識の対象となった。なかでも奈良時代からの染め紙は色紙(しきし)として形式化され、美しくしかも薄く漉(す)ける流し漉きの技法と染色技術が組み合わさって、打曇(うちぐもり)(内曇)、飛雲(とびくも)、羅文紙(らもんし)などの漉き模様紙や、金、銀の砂子(すなご)、切箔(きりはく)、野毛(のげ)などによる加工紙、また墨流(すみなが)し、切り継(つ)ぎ、破り継ぎ、重ね継ぎなどの技法による継ぎ紙など、多種多様の料紙が工芸美術として発達した。これらは書道の発展とも関連して、現在までに多くの傑作が残されている。

[町田誠之]

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