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World Cultural Heritage Registered Commemorative Picture Scroll

Front・East Japan Volume… Entitled "A Journey Across Japanese Land and Sea," Visiting the footprints of Zuiken Kawamura, who opened the west and east circuit roads which bound Edo and Osaka to northern Honshu, and Matsuo Basho, who had a close friendship with Kawamura, this travels the Tokaido Road on land and shore.
Reverse・Inland Sea Volume… Visiting Taira Kiyomori's Itsukushima shrine pilgrimage course and the history of the rise and fall of the Taira and Minamoto clans, this travels from the corridor of the Seto Inland Sea to Dannoura and Shikanoshima. Please enjoy this picture scroll of the course of the sea road. Additionally, this includes a the origins and history of a wide variety of Mt. Fuji weather lore. 25 pieces of World Heritage-registered organizational property and viewpoints on Mt. Fuji are recorded on the case.

This is the first picture scroll in Japan to use Stonesheet, a paper made from stone in order to preserve the environment for the next generation.

We use stonesheet, a type of paper which helps preserve the environment for the next generation by using no pulp at all in its raw materials. By manufacturing with stone as our primary ingredient (lime = inorganic material) and not using pulp, we can reduce felling of forests. Besides this, because bleaching agents and strong bases are not needed when manufacturing the paper, there is no worry of water pollution. Furthermore, because the composition of stonesheet is 51% or greater lime (an inorganic substance), it can be treated as flammable waste, and the volume of CO2 released when it is incinerated can be dropped to approximately 30% of that released by western paper (roughly 70% recycled paper); it can be reduced by 50% or more in comparison to resin (polyethylene). Outer cases can also be made of Stonesheet.

※ This picture scroll is registered as a similar publication based on Article 25 of the Waterway Business Act by the Japan Coast Guard.
※ It was introduced by a letter from the Secretariat of the Beach Station Network.(2012.10.16)