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atsu- : thick
-gami(-kami) : paper
harusame : spring rain
itajime : clamped between pieces of wood
kami(gami) : paper
muji- : plain-color
mura- : ombre, shading
nagare- : stream
unryu : dragon-in-cloud
usu- : thin
washi : japanese paper
-zome : dyed
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| How to compose Chigirie ? | |
Tools for chigirie  | | Here is an explanation of the basic procedure to compose Chigirie.
Let's make "camellia", using Chigirie kit "Camellia" for beginners. |  | Here are four sheets of Washi paper dyed respectively
red, green, brown and yellow, and small white thick piece |  | First you tear the green paper ro make six leaves.
Put the transfer paper called *Chaco Paper on the paper,
under the patern.
Trace the outline of the leaf you intend to tear out,
and a blue line is drown on the green paper.
*Chaco Paper is a water erasable transfer paper.
You can transfer any design or pattern, onto any papers,
fabric, or wood, marks instantly disapper upon contact
with a damp close or brush dipped in water. |  | You tear it by your thum and forfinger along the blue line,
and you'll have the leaf. Same procedure with the other leaves. |  | Now tear the red paper to get five petals.
Choose where the hue of the red color changes gradually
from heavy to lighter petals.
The procedure is the same as with the leaves. |  | Then you smooth the edges of the torn pieces
so that the fibers of each tip go outward. |  | Tear the brown paper to make the stem, and then the yellow paper
to get the calyces(the center of the flower). | | Paste the five petals together into one whole flower,
putting them on the design so that the shape of the flower
is formed correctly. |  | Prepare the Sjikishi board, glue the pieces onto it,
placing the bottom piece first, then the next one and so on.
(*Shikishi is a fancy paper board for poem writing or painting.)
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