The craftsmen in Kyoto devoted themselves to processing ganpishi such as the techniques of paper splicing including suminagashi, uchigumo (paper with a flying cloud), tobikumo (a flying cloud-like pattern appearing on indigo-blue and purple fiber-included paper), kiri-tsugi (cutting and splicing), yaburi-tsugi (cutting two kinds of paper with their ends in a swung dash form and splicing them) and kasane-tsugi (cutting five gradated kinds of paper with their ends in a swung dash form and splicing them), and 'karakami' with patterns that imitated Chinese mon-toshi (colored karakami with patterns), and completed sophisticated processing techniques particular to Japanese paper.
墨流し、打ち雲、飛雲や切り継ぎ、破り継ぎ、重ね継ぎなどの継ぎ紙の技巧そして、中国渡来の紋唐紙を模した紋様を施した「から紙」など、京の工人たちは雁皮紙（がんぴし）の加工に情熱を注ぎ、和紙独特の洗練された加工技術を完成させた。