Japanese handmade Paper

I visited to Ogawa-town in Saitama prefecture with my coworkers because we are trying to think up the new products used Washi (Japanse handmade paper) for the guest room at first-class hotels. We thought we have to learn about Washi first as the start. That town is famous for the home town of Washi.

Ogawa-Town
The history of Ogawa-town can date back to far the Jyoumon-Era. It was known as the important point of the Kamakura Highway which connected Kamakura and Jyosyu in the Medieval Period and interesting town for the touring Japanese old history because there are the place of Umegaoka remains the legend of Miya Shogun Morikuni Imperial Prince who escaped safely to there after the fall of the Kamakura government, the ruins of Sengaku-Risshi (priest) who achieved research on Manyou-syu, Daishou-Ji(temple) which has Rokkaku-Touba(stone Monument) of the important cultural property designated by the government.

We could see many kind of the paper crafts. That made me realized again the beauty of Japanese traditional culture