I just love this object from the Suntory Museum exhibition “Washi: The Timeless Beauty of Japanese Paper.” What you are looking at is an antique (Meiji period, so at least 150 years old) ream of Japanese paper, with straw thread between sheets to count them, topped with a sheet of chirigami to protect the bundle, and finally bundled with straw rope. I don’t know much more about the object, but I’ve been smitten with it from the minute I first saw it at the exhibit about five years ago, and wanted to share it with you now.
