Chapter 8 Respect for Ancient Egypt
Now then, even though I have my heart absolutely set on making books, I have yet to actually secure a source of paper. My Japanese sensibilities are telling me that I should just go to an office supply store, where they sell five hundred sheets of copy paper for two hundred yen1, but in the world I live in now, just one page of parchment would make an entire month’s worth of my father’s salary disappear.
To make that just one page, a hide has to be stripped, all of the fur shaved off, and then from the largest usable part of a single animal’s hide, sheets must be cut that are of a size that’s easy to work with. The page that I saw at my father’s workplace was about the size of an A4 sheet of paper2. If I were to cut up a single page of parchment, I wou
