manufacturing process2 of ink-sticks

5. Ash drying		6. Natural drying

	7. Washing in water		9. Coloring

5. Ash drying

The work that is dried in ash.I bury the sumi which began to be removed from molding box of a tree with ash of a little water by a little after the first day and take it out.As for this ash drying, a small thing continues a large-scale thing for approximately 7 days for 30 days from the 20th day.

6. Natural drying

I knit the sumi which ash drying ended in with straw and suspend it from a ceiling, and set it on a network, and let you dry in a windless room for from 1 month to 2 months.

7. Washing in water

By 1 block washes away the ash which stuck forward with water.There is a thing too of kind that isn't flushed.

8. Polishing

It is shine soup stock.I improve it with a shell of a clam politely after I put glaze on and burn it with charcoal fire, and softening the surface.

9. Coloring

10. Packing

I put by 1 block in a parcel, a box with paper and ship it.To shipment, minimum 3 month is necessary since I put type in even any kind of small sumi.

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