Junichiro Tanizaki in In Praise of Shadows:
Japanese paper gives us a certain feeling of warmth, of calm and repose… Western paper turns away the light, while our paper seems to take it in, to envelop it gently, like the soft surface of a first snowfall. It gives off no sound when it is crumpled or folded, it is quiet and pliant to the touch as the leaf of a tree.
That day, on the shores of Kyagar Tso, the light was like Japanese paper.