Japanese Traditional Paper

One day I got curious of how papers are made while public opinion in Japan are shifting the use of plastics in to paper, so I decided to actually receive the education from a craftsman who makes a Japanese traditional paper, washi, in the nature of Yame city in Fukuoka prefecture. When I was in there to learn the craftsmanship by my hand he actually taught me from the raw materials production and the basis to make washiit comes from trees called kozo. At that time, he mentioned "actually, we only use the part of mulberry skin, which is only the 4% of the tree of kozo. I think this it is just the right amount for we human beings to receive ecosystem services in nature. We human are using too much of it today.” Though this artwork I was fully made to wonder how much human beings are actually allowed to consume, dispose, or control in the nature systems.