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surviving record of paper making in china is a report to the eastern han emperor ho-di, dated to a.d. early chinese paper was made from the bark of the mulberry tree. the bark fibers were broken and pounded into a sheet. later, the chinese discovered that one could make higher quality paper by adding hemp rags
consistig of fibers from hemp, mulberry, rattan, bamboo, rice straw, and seaweed. japan according to tradition, paper making was introduced to japan by a korean buddhist monk named don-cho, who taught paper making at the imperial palace aroudn the year ad. at this point, buddhism was still a faily new...
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