SHODO SAKUHIN HOZON
Because Calligraphy Works Are Precious, Proper Preservation Matters
We offer a wide range of preservation items such as hanshi folders, hanshi files, paulownia boxes for scroll storage, insect-repelling incense, and wrapping paper (tatou).
From elementary school students to professional calligraphers, our products are widely ordered. Please take a look at our collection.
Preservation Supplies and Methods for Calligraphy Works
If stored improperly, paper can mold, so it is best to keep calligraphy works in proper preservation supplies.
Preservation tools provide many benefits: allowing you to view works for a long time, carry them safely, and prevent insect damage.
Shoyu Online introduces products for preserving important model pieces, works, and scrolls.
For Long-Term Preservation, We Recommend Paulownia Boxes
The features of paulownia boxes are: lightweight, fire-resistant, resistant to humidity changes, and insect-repellent.
Storing calligraphy works in paulownia boxes will protect them for many years.
We recommend keeping valuable calligraphy works in a paulownia box.
For long-term storage, we also recommend including insect-repelling incense to prevent insect damage.
Files for Reviewing Works and Corrected Pieces
It’s a good idea to keep works you wrote well or want to review corrections in a file.
Files are available in hanshi and postcard sizes. For decorative paper or works you don’t want to fold, use paper tubes.
For Storing Multiple Candidate Works
If you have written many candidate pieces, fold them into uniform sizes and keep them in a storage box for convenience.
Please choose a storage box that matches the size of your works.
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Paulownia Boxes: Best for Scroll Preservation
After displaying and enjoying important calligraphy or paintings, you’ll want to preserve them carefully for the future. Paulownia boxes are best for scroll preservation.
Paulownia wood has long been used for storing clothing and valuables due to its excellent properties. It is extremely light yet strong,
resistant to humidity, fire, and decay, and also naturally insect-repellent. This makes it ideal for protecting scrolls.
When storing scrolls in paulownia boxes, include insect-repelling incense specifically made for mounting. Camphor or naphthalene can damage scrolls.
Choose a paulownia box that matches the size of your scrolls.
Protective Paper “Tatou” for Careful Storage
A Preservation Method That Uses the Qualities of Washi
Washi has been part of Japanese daily life for centuries. Beyond calligraphy and art, it has been used for lanterns, fans, fusuma, and shoji screens, and remains present in modern life.
Tatou, also written as “tatougami” (畳紙), literally means folded paper and has long been used to wrap and store tools or clothing.
For example, kimono are always wrapped in tatou before being placed in paulownia chests.
Why is wrapping with tatou important? Because washi has many excellent qualities: it is light, soft, strong, resistant to tearing, and functions as a natural humidity regulator—absorbing moisture in humid summers and releasing it in dry winters. It is also highly breathable.
Since calligraphy and painting works are easily affected by their storage environment, carefully wrapping them in tatou ensures safer preservation.
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