Illustration: In a working Japanese papermaking studio, an artisan holds a finished sheet of washi toward a window while a young visitor examines its fine interwoven fibers and softly irregular edge. A shallow vat of suspended plant fibers and a bamboo-screen papermaking frame sit immediately beside them.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

和わ紙し

washi

traditional Japanese paper

Example sentences

あの和紙わし、きれいね。
That washi is pretty.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
特殊とくしゅな和紙わしを用意よういする必要ひつようはない。
It doesn’t require a special Japanese paper.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
和紙わしを水みずで濡ぬらしたときの臭においに似にているとされる。
They say that it is similar to a smell which is felt when Japanese paper is made wet with water.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 和紙

和harmony; Japanese styleOnワ・オ・カKunやわらぐ・やわらげる・なごむ
紙paperOnシKunかみ

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