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This is a notice regarding Ono　Shoten's winter holidays. We will be closed from December 27, 2025 to January 4, 2025. If you have any inquiries about washi paper, small paper, or custom made paper　products while we are closed, please contact us via our inquiry page or by fax. We will respond early after the holidays. We apologize for any　inconvenience this may cause.

This is an example of a gift box made using various chiyogami and washi paper. We custom-made a lidded gift box to add a touch of Christmas cheer to your American collection. The lid is pasted using various types of washi paper, including chiyogami, folk craft paper, and Senka paper, and the company logo is embossed in gold foil on the top of the box. Each box is carefully wrapped, pasted, and finished by hand. Use this as a tool to enhance your company's brand power.

This is a blog to inform you about Ono Shoten's summer holidays. Our company will be closed from August 9th to 17th, 2025.If you have any inquiries regarding washi paper, komagami paper, or custom paper product production during the closure, please use our inquiry page or fax us. We will respond as soon as possible after the holidays.

This is an example of a custom-made box for storing products, originally produced for the French market. We received a request from a shop in Normandy that primarily deals in Japanese paper products. We created two custom-made, palm-sized boxes with a lid-over design to store their goods. The lid is covered with traditional Japanese paper (chiyogami), and the body is covered with colored folk art paper. Each box is carefully wrapped and finished by hand.

Blog about Ono Shoten's Golden Week holidays. We are informing you of our company's Golden Week holidays in April and May 2025. If you have any inquiries about washi paper, komagami paper, or custom paper products during the holidays, please contact us through our inquiry page or by fax. We will respond as soon as the holidays are over. Thank you for your cooperation.

This is an announcement about an exhibition that used washi paper handled by Ono Shoten. An exhibition of picture book authors, "Let's Play with Picture Books, First Time? Question Marks," was held at the Fukuoka City Science Museum in Hakata from March 21, 2025. One of the picture book authors, Kikuchi Chiki, used our washi paper to create the exhibition space.

This is a blog to inform you about Ono Shoten's winter closure. Our company will be closed from December 28, 2024 to January 5, 2025.

This is an example of a gift box made using chiyogami and folk craft paper. We custom-made two types of lidded gift boxes to be used during the Christmas shopping season in the United States. The surface is pasted using chiyogami, folk craft paper, and Senka paper, and the company logo is stamped in gold foil on the top of the box. Each box is meticulously handcrafted, making it a unique piece. Use it as a tool to enhance your company's brand power.

We would like to inform you about our summer holidays in August 2024. We will be closed from the 10th to the 18th.

This is a blog about a visit to a papermaking artisan's workplace where they made a prototype of handmade washi paper for interior products. After the COVID-19 pandemic, I visited a papermaking artisan's workplace for the first time in about six years. This time, they layered two or more layers of washi paper and made a prototype using a papermaking method called Sukikomi, which is different from regular washi paper.

This is an example of a pasted box made for the US market using Chiyogami paper and Japanese Mingei paper.

This is an example of a small custom-made pasted box made with white washi paper.

This is an example of a small, lidded box made with Chiyogami and Mingei paper. Each box is palm-sized and carefully handcrafted.