Uchiyama resident man (born in Taisho in 15th year)
When talking about the history of Uchiyama paper, I can not talk about the founder of the Edo period, without Mr. Yoshiemon Hagihara. Uchiyama is blessed with a wonderful environment such as abundant spring water, rich mountains and natural snow. Kiemon gate was moved by this, had great dreams and hopes, studied at somewhere on the way back to Ise Shrine of Kinsuke Year, and began manufacturing shoji paper at home. This was the beginning of paper making at Uchiyama.
After that many improvements were made by many seniors, Uchiyama was a shoji paper, Speaking of paper, Uchiyama and I was able to spread its name to all over the country.
First of all, it is Tsutsugu (collecting fish) which collects a medicine of paper mushrooms, elm (nori). In October, I get paid by the Forestry Department and I will leave the dark middle house with three to four people next door. The place is three places of North entrance · Honsawa · red squirrel, and it seems there were many reddish direction.
Arrived at the scene at around 7 o’clock. There are large beech, big tree big places in some places on the one side of Sasabachi, wrapped in silence, only the sound of the birds can be heard. As if not to be strayed, I will hoarse with my neighbors and voice and find elm. You can see white flowers in the bamboo grove and you can find about 4 places. Since there are three stocks per share, we will ship the broken elm to Kiba and pack it up. Because the road is narrow, it stands upright. I will arrive home on lunch at lunch. Veterans are twenty and we are fourteen and five.
On the way back is a slope, the legs and back hurt when going for a while, the old-fashioned one-says. It is dark when I get home. The next day is foot rest. In addition, old people go to three mountain mountains with autumn fun. In autumn, we decide to finish around October 20th due to the drastic changes in the mountains’ weather and short days.
Then gradually began to use “Trollea oi” of grass elm.
In December, I will cut the rice cake before the snow falls, cut it further to three scale, steam it with a cooker and peel it off. I will do a Yui neighbors, start from around 3 o’clock in the morning, and finish in three days.
I will hang this black skin around the house and dry it.
Dry skins are soaked in water to make it easier to scrape the epidermis by applying it to the sun or freezing it. When coming home from school, hang triplets on the goby, wrapped in water so as not to freeze the water, and carry it to the house. I will skin it after dinner. I will snow this.
Seventh to ten days exposure to leather, add further chemicals to the white skin, boil it in a hook and wash it. The washing with water is Long Temple Shimizu, there are a hut of a temple, a hut in the middle, a hut at the bottom, and three places, mainly work of a lady. It seems to be fun as various information gathering places in the age when there is nothing.
After washing the skin it turns white more with bleached drink that night, bring the yesterday’s skin home and refresh it in the evening. There is a beating factory, friends are at that factory, others are beating at home.
After dinner, it is bustling with the beating sound of the neighborhood. It seems that we sit down and beat on a stone at the time of an old single board. There are also two stones in our house.
Also at that time, Agriculture and Forest High School had a paper making factory, and there are memories that I practiced. The beating will be standing and beating in both at the work of the father and mother.
After I was recruited, I began to plant with two sheets on behalf of my father. In the beginning I asked the neighborhood house, I heard various stories, watched many times and studied. There were only two boards dried in the house around 1960. There were plenty of boards dried in the house. All outside are steam dry.
Drying was my grandmother’s job, and I was working with a lamp on late at night.
Paper sorting and cutting are the tasks of my grandfather.
Packing is a single unit as a unit, and the whole circle is 1,200 sheets. The figure must be within a range of more than two hundred and one hundred and fifty five. I think that the price has reached the 3,000 – yen level. Even at the age of 10 years old she is trying to focus on the production of high quality shoji paper which sells high.
Around 1952, it made four papers, made power to put it in, and work became easier and efficiency improved. As paper making became more popular, paper wholesalers also developed. Izumi Noda, Izumiya, Mr. Yoshida (Yoshida / Honcho?), Etc. Mr. Kazumoto visits the Nishiya and buys it with a price. It seems that the Filipinos were cautioned to respond to get them to buy with good values.
The architectural style has changed as the time goes forward, and the slash paper production has decreased due to the entry of paper. In addition, the cultivation of Enoki mushrooms became popular in various places, there were many people who switched to Enoki at Uchiyama, finally becoming three other people around the decades and two officials became one person. I also served as the last executive director in the office work later, and finally put an end to the history of the Uchiyama Shoji paper which died in the Showa 44 years tradition of over 300 years.
Although the construction of the monument, the house of the experience etc became afterwards, it seemed to be restored, but it did not last long, but fortunately the one who took over afterwards studied the multifaceted application besides the shoji paper, the hand which made paper Many studied such as craftworks, many people such as school relations and tourists visited and Uchiyama is full of boom.
Following your memories, Shoji Doors sounds well. Every morning at 5 am the siren at Iiyama’s paper mill beeps and the train starts moving at 5:30 pm, that sounds good. When I can hear well in the winter, it is almost sunny and slowly leave morning and when I can not hear early, I get snow early, collecting snow, snow and leather, leather is my job. Whether the whole family can work, is not this connected to family satisfaction?
In addition, around 1941, as paper coffee was found around April, I went for a moment to the backyard. As cherry blossoms are in full bloom, I heard Nagamochi songs (Nagagachi Uta · sung at the time of wedding) from about three places, and it is the idyllic rural landscape itself.
Treats you get at the wedding are taken back with “Tsukkko”. I joined them with a little long straw a little and tied them with two heads tied.
Put a newspaper, put a treat in Tsukkko and closing it closing well. When newspaper gets wet, it is weak, it breaks and it reaches the road way, and there is nothing when it reaches home. I am disappointed that children were eaten by “fox”. Paper making farmers used two sheets of paper instead of newspaper paper (= coarse paper with fusing paper and black skin). I could not tear even if wet, so I did it safely to my child. I was glad that it did not come out of a fox.
It is an event that demonstrates the strength of shoji paper. A strong and beautiful Uchiyama paper has been used for many such applications.
(Main article of Heisei 20s)