BIBLE ON ONE SHEET.
A Japanese Christian, one. Ishizuka, a member of the Friends. Mission, lias just completed a transcription of the Bible, Old and Now Testaments, on a /ingle scroll of fine Japanese • paper, “kakemono.” . The scroll is described as “six shaku, four sun in length, and two shaku, nine sun wide” (6ft by 21ft). Mie work of printing was done by hand with a Japanese writing brush and required “four vears and thr'ee months and 10,000 prayers,” according to the artist. The'letters stand out beautifully distinct under a microscope.
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Shannon News, 1 December 1925, Page 3
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91BIBLE ON ONE SHEET. Shannon News, 1 December 1925, Page 3
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