Japanese Shikishi

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Japanese Shikishi
What is a Shikishi and what is the Japanese kanji for it?

What is a Shikishi and what is the Japanese kanji for that please?

Shiki = =色color or color Shikishi shi = paper =纸色纸= color paper or color according to the following website: Japanese Board of art with gold trim edges emhe, Japanese uses different pronunciations per character, depending on context. Although using the same character, in the Origami, Folding paper the effect is pronounced GAM in Shikishi is shi. In China, it just means "paper" and no matter what context you use it, yet pronounced "zhi". Shi is the Japanese approximation of the Chinese pronunciation of "paper". shi is considered "Sino-Japanese" [Sino is from the Latin word "Chinese".] while GAMI is considered "native Japan." Native Japanese words are the words used long before the introduction of Chinese writing in Japan. I hope this helps you understand why Europeans called Japanese "Devil's Tongue."

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