after yoshimune ' s death , hundreds of pieces of wastepaper were found in a nearby box . 吉宗の死後、傍らに置いていた箱の中から数百枚の反故紙が見つかった。
through these processes , kanyain began to gather wastepaper to make recycled paper . このような経緯で、紙屋（かんや）院は反故紙を集めて漉き返しの宿紙（しゅくし）を漉くようになった。
in an introduction by sakuden he says , ' i wrote down on wastepaper the funny stories i have heard since i was little ,' explaining how the stories came to be collected . 策伝の導入部では、「策伝それがし小僧の時より、耳にふれておもしろくをかしかりつる事を、反故の端にとめ置きたり」と話を収集した過程を述べている。
for hone-shibari , wastepaper that has strength was used , for intermediate processes minato-gami (minato paper , a paper made of used paper in minato-mura village , izumi province with thin black or gray color ) or chachiri-shi (a paper made from the wastes of the black bark of paper mulberry trees ) was used , and for the process of kiyo-bari , the highly sticky kizuki such as mino-gami , hosokawa-gami and sesshu-hanshi (standard-size japanese writing paper made in iwami province ) were used . 骨縛りは引きの強い反故紙を用い、中期工程には湊紙（和泉の湊村で漉かれた漉き返しの紙で、薄墨または鼠色の紙）や茶塵（ちゃちり）紙（楮の黒皮のくずから漉いた紙や、故紙を再生したもので単に塵紙ともいう）を用い、清貼の工程には粘りの強い生漉きの美濃紙・細川紙・石州半紙などが用いられた。
for hone-shibari , wastepaper that has strength was used , for intermediate processes minato-gami (minato paper , a paper made of used paper in minato-mura village , izumi province with thin black or gray color ) or chachiri-shi (a paper made from the wastes of the black bark of paper mulberry trees ) was used , and for the process of kiyo-bari , the highly sticky kizuki such as mino-gami , hosokawa-gami and sesshu-hanshi (standard-size japanese writing paper made in iwami province ) were used . 骨縛りは引きの強い反故紙を用い、中期工程には湊紙（和泉の湊村で漉かれた漉き返しの紙で、薄墨または鼠色の紙）や茶塵（ちゃちり）紙（楮の黒皮のくずから漉いた紙や、故紙を再生したもので単に塵紙ともいう）を用い、清貼の工程には粘りの強い生漉きの美濃紙・細川紙・石州半紙などが用いられた。
