A Life of Ts'Ai Lung and Japanese Paper Making by NARITA, Kiyofusa - 1966

Tokyo 1966, Dainihon. Stiff pictorial wrappers, as NEW copy, 106p., 2 color & 20 b.w. photos + 17 text line drawings, the best revised & enlarged edition, 13 x 18.3 cm. . *** **** *** . . SUPERB MONOGRAPH, TRACING THE ORIGINS OF HANDMADE PAPER . . . BY ITS 'INVENTOR' TS'AI LUNG . . . AND HOW IT INFLUENCED JAPANESE WASHI PAPERMAKING . * Excellent work on the 1300 year old tradition of how paper making was discovered by a Chinese Buddhist monk. How Japanese learned the method of making Washi [handmade mulberry & other fiber] papers. . * This excellent work covers the history of Japanese handmade papers, technique by hand, Suminagashi, "ink-floating" paper or marbled paper techniques, patterned, Ebosho & watermarked papers. . . Kiyofusa Narita was the Director of the Tokyo Paper Museum, and an important scholar on Washi, Japanese hand-made papers and paper makers. . *** CONDITION: . THE BEST EDITION with more text & plates than the First Edition. . A valuable… Read More

The Dainihon Press, 1966 Wraps. Small 8vo. Revised editon. 106 pp. Very good + in glassine. INSCRIBED by the author "For Mr. A.R. Darling" dated April 16, 1970. Tipped in color frontis photograph. Illustrated throughout in black & white with photographs and drawings. History of paper making in Japan and the life of Ts'ai who is credited with the invention of modern paper,. Inscribed by Author(s). Soft cover. Very Good.

Tokyo, Japan: Paper Museum, 1979. Revised & Enlarged Edition, First Thus . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. Red endpapers. Author Kiyofusa Narita is the Director of the Paper Museum. Tokyo, Japan. Text first introduces Chinese official Ts'ai Lung of the court of Emperor Ho of the Later Han Dynasty, c AD 105, and his techniques and methodology. Chinese methods were introduced to Japan (via Korea) in 610 and soon brittleness was solved through usage of kozo tree bark, 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 Marchine-Made Paper in Japn.