Lai Gu, also described this tradition in his poem Early Spring (早春): "新曆才將半紙開，小亭猶聚爆竿灰", meaning "Another new year just started as a half opening paper...

10–13 by 13–17 inches (25 cm–33 cm × 33 cm–43 cm) inches in size. Hanshi-bon (半紙本, "half paper books"), roughly 9 by 6 inches (23 cm × 15 cm), and kobon (小本...

Hozonkai) Papermaking Hosokawa-shi 1978 Sekishūban-shi Preservation Society (石州半紙技術者会, Sekishūbanshi Hozonkai) Papermaking Sekishūban-shi 1976 Honmino-shi Preservation...

(名塩雁皮紙) Made from the ganpi plant Hyōgo Prefecture 2002 Washi Sekishū-banshi (石州半紙) The strongest paper produced in Japan; used for shōji, calligraphy, and...