Japanese rice paper

Rice paper is the widely used misnomer for two entirely different materials also made in the form of thin sheets Chinese kung-shu, which is not paper (see text below) and washi. Also known as Japanese rice paper, washi is paper made from the cellulose fibers derived from the bark and branches of mulberry trees (Broussonetia kajinoki) (Inaba and Sugisita 1988 Barrett 1988). 

FIGURE 51. Nineteenth-century Japanese watercolor on rice paper depicting the phoenix. Was the 1950s movie icon Rodan meant to represent a phoenix rising from the ashes of the nuclear bomb ... 

The /h-symmetric C60 molecule was first described by Osawa (1970), and the concept expanded the following year in the final chapter of Yoshida Osawa (1971). The book was read widely by Japanese chemists. There was, however, little response to my proposal of the potential stability of the football-shaped molecule. In the meantime, for reasons mentioned below, we stopped working on aromaticity and engaged in new fields of research until the classic paper of Kroto et al. (1985) appeared. In 1986, O Brien, then a graduate student with Smalley at Rice University, U.S.A., asked Yoshida for an English copy of this book and we produced a translation of pertinent portions (pp. 174-178) for him. This translation (slightly polished) is reproduced below. 

Tears are repaired with Japanese tissue, missing areas are filled in with paper similar to the artifact. Repair paper of specific caliper and tone is made in the leaf caster. Adhesives vary methyl cellulose, wheat paste, or a mixture of polyvinyl alcohol with rice paste. The mixture is most useful because it permits use of a warm tacking iron to hasten the drying process. Where missing areas have been patched, the restorer reconstructs only those lines and colors that are already discernable, lest the work be called an attempt at falsification. 

There are two ways to hold the composition of Senko-Hanabi one is a dry process twisting a piece of Japanese paper tape 23 mm wide and 200 mm long containing about 0.09 of the composition at one end the other is a wet process where sticks made of rush or straw are dipped into a liquid mixture to a desired depth, withdrawn and dried in the sun. The liquid mixture is made by adding glutinous rice starch and water to the composition. 

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