Washi

I'm Andres Zenerozney.

For the past few years, I've begun to study Japanese washi in my own time.

As a mokuhanga printmaker, and through The Unfinished Print, I've been taught to see Japanese washi in many different ways: how it's made, how it's used, and more importantly for me, how people view this indelible medium in our mokuhanga practice.

On this episode of The Unfinished Print, a mokuhanga podcast, I speak with Paul Denhod, a paper researcher and paper maker based in Japan.

I had the opportunity to attend a few of Paul's lectures here in Toronto at the Japanese Paper Place, and I came away from those lectures intrigued and wanting to learn more about Japanese washi.

Paul discusses his work in Japan helping to make washi, what the term washi means, and how the different paper producers in Japan work and don't work together.

Paul shares his experiences with Richard Flavin, Hidoaki Imai.

We look at how these experiences shaped his work today and continue to shape his work into tomorrow.