In accordance with a rapid increase of demand for reconstruction and the loss of the plates for woodblock printing by fire due to the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, shin-rakusui-shi became the mainstream.
大正12年（1923年）の関東大震災で、復興需要の急増と、木版摺りの版木が焼失したのに伴い、新楽水紙が主流となった。