Replacing the Paper on the Shoji Screens & Meeting One of Japan's Youngest Tatami Craftsmen

[@MikasaYukiTodoroki]

I’ve always wanted a house like that. They’re very beautiful and hysterical ❤

[@PetrKiskaPE-kneTR-uhlarstvi]

Nice video, i love shoji and kumiko. This house is beautiful 👍 good job by the way.😉

[@adriannacostello3873]

I think that rolling the paper into twine at night would be quite relaxing.

[@manjufrodo]

I loved watching you re-paper the shōji! Your videos are very meditative and calming. Thank you!

[@Ryunohara]

I’m glad you enjoy watching shoji getting repapered. If you come volunteer you’ll be in charge of shoji maintenance. 😁

[@manjufrodo]

@@Ryunohara it's a long flight from California, but I'll see what I can do! 😉

[@dariasiebert9291]

Dear Ryunohara, What clay did you use? I didn’t figure out 🤔very interesting!

[@misssometing]

the tatami maker's socks are cute!

[@Ryunohara]

Okay I’ll let him know lol

[@joanleenakayama7939]

U did the doors washing & pasting all by yourself AGAIN!! U R super !!! 😍🥰👍👍👍

[@Ryunohara]

Haha thanks

[@SofiaGonzalez-ty8yt]

すごい😆⤴️

[@shizuokaBLUES]

Great video and thanks for making it. This year I did five of my 14 screens. But I used the two sided shoji tape instead of glue/ nori this year. I think that was a mistake. The paper is already separating from frame because the tape doesn't adhere that well. I think taking the tape off next time will be a real pain too. So, I will go back to the original style and use glue. Your paper looks really really nice. WOW!!

[@Ryunohara]

Glue works well and is pretty cheap. 14 screens is quite a lot, ganbatte!

[@shaneyee934]

Have you been to Singapore? You sound like a Singaporean! I use Shoji paper to cover model airplanes. How do I find the lightest paper grade? There used to be this paper called Esaki paper but it's no longer available. Where would I find the lightest grade of mulberry paper that remains strong while wet?

[@markpark2713]

He's perrrfect!

[@Ryunohara]

Lol

[@roxanaemanuela6668]

My, that’s a lot of shoji! But the texture of the new paper looks great. Incidentally, I volunteer the two of us for twine making and whatever other natural tea packaging (some fancily folded paper bags for the teas, for instance. You’d need to talk with Wim about that, he’s the more artistic and handy of us). I’m thinking you could make it into the workshop part of the visitor experience. 😉 Incidentally, the EU is to add Japan next week to the very short list of trusted non-European countries for non-essential travelling. Depending on what Japan decides too, leisure travel may resume sooner than expected. 😊

[@Ryunohara]

Hooray!! It’ll be interesting to see what Wim comes up with on a whim.

[@plantkingdom6880]

Nice ambience and the dog is so cute. Do Shoji screens have paper on just one side or both sides?

[@Ryunohara]

Hi! Shoji have paper only on one side.

[@firstname-qq3xp]

How often is the paper re-done?

[@Ryunohara]

Ideally every year but given that we are using handmade paper probably once every 5-10 years would be nice.

[@henxinggan]

Why do you have to repaper them when they are not ripped? How often do you have to do this?

[@Ryunohara]

The old paper was stained and torn in many sections, and being mass-produced paper they were not the kind of paper the house would have had 120 years ago, so I replaced them with handmade paper made within our village. The new handmade paper should last us at least 10 years.

[@henxinggan]

@@Ryunohara Very cool. Thank you!

[@debbiek9067]

Is your lovely dog still young and keen to run away, so that you have to keep him tied up? Or are there other animals around he likes to chase after?! Looks like you will soon need to make him a bigger table to hide under!

[@Ryunohara]

Mori used to be a wild dog so she has run away 6 times and the last time she ran away she stayed away for 5 days. Also she likes to eat cat poop so she has to be tied up. She gets two long walks a day though!

[@Ryunohara]

Also she isn’t getting any bigger - she’s 5.

[@ellisbell8578]

Hi! What breed is your dog?

[@Ryunohara]

Hello Ellis! Mori is a kind of spitz, and she was born in Okayama Prefecture. All the wild dogs there look the same but they have not been assigned a breed name.

[@h.r.9563]

She is beautiful! Wild dogs in japan remind me of shiba inus. They're so lovely

[@creepinglimongrass3276]

are your videos being copywrite strike because there are no ads and because of your background music?

[@misssometing]

probably because the view count is still low so no ads

[@Ryunohara]

Copyright strike? The background music is from KZbin.

[@michal.gawron]

2 mm off! I wouldn't want to be a tatami maker in Japan. ;-)

[@Ryunohara]

Haha the tatami makers here are okay with a 1mm gap but if you go to the Kyoto Imperial Palace the tolerance is 0mm.