Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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This video - the second in the 'Adventures in Washi' series - takes us to the Japanese countryside, to Oguni, the area in Niigata Prefecture where a lot of the mulberry fiber for making Japanese paper is grown.

00:00 Cold open - out in the fields, harvesting the mulberry
01:26 Dave's introduction
04:11 Processing the mulberry fibre
12:03 Dave's outro ...

Thanks again to Cameron Hilker for his work taking the raw footage in Niigata back in 2019 - mostly in terrible weather!

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Update:
Episode one of this series is here:
youtube.com/watch?v=xUpLl7BZ_JY
Episode three:
youtube.com/watch?v=nrIFpx0r5lA

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