Illustration from page 253 of <i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Index:Home_Life_in_Tokyo_1910_by_Jukichi_Inouye.pdf" class="extiw" title="s:en:Index:Home Life in Tokyo 1910 by Jukichi Inouye.pdf">A WRITING-TABLE AND BOOK-CASES.</a></i>. 
<br><b>Caption:</b> "A WRITING-TABLE AND BOOK-CASES. Quote: "The writing-table is a low piece of board, three feet long and about one wide, supported at either end or a few inches from it by a wooden prop; and the writer, in sitting at the table, puts his knees under it between the props. The paper used for letter-writing is rice-paper in a long roll, which is unrolled as one writes. Most people can write with the roll in their hands, letting the written portion drop as the paper is unrolled. The ink is made by wetting and rubbing the Indian-ink stick on a stone slab with a hollow at the upper end as reservoir for the ink. The pen is a hair-pencil with a bamboo holder. A paper-weight of metal is used to hold the paper down when we write at the table; and the writer sits straight at the table and, dipping the brush in ink, writes with it held almost perpendicularly and lightly touching the paper.""
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