Illustration of Pine Soot Collection

|Pine Soot| |Collection Illustration|

|This is the reason for using resinous pine. It is also called |ash ink|. To |collect| this, enclose the area with |four-sided| |paper screens|, build a |shelf| inside, coat the |top| with |earth|, light the resinous pine, and from the window... collect the smoke from the fire that accumulates on the |upper| part by sweeping it off. This is called pine soot.

|What is called |lamp soot| in the |original text| is the smoke from an oil lamp fire. For this, too, build a shelf, light many oil lamps, enclose them with paper screens, and collect what accumulates above.

Also, the |low-grade| pine soot used for things like |Taihei ink| is not smoke from resinous pine. It is prepared like a |roof tile| kiln, where |miscellaneous pine wood| is burned, and the |soot| that accumulates on top is swept and collected.

* "|Pine soot|" is another name for |ink|. It refers to the |smoke| or |soot| produced when burning pine.
* "|Resinous pine|" refers to the trunk or branches of a pine tree that contain a large amount of |pine resin|. It is used for things like |torches|.
* "Kefuri" means |smoke|.

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