Asian

Unryu tend to have visible long fibers has been translated as floating cloud with the floating wispy fibers showing on the surface.
Torinoco is sort of softer felted feeling paper good for Calligraphy, lanterns, and used for Sogi screens
Hosho is kind of the same on both sides ..
Asian papers have a number of restoration uses. Asian papers are used in restoration because they are very thin and very strong and you can see through them and they don't add any thickness. if you are mending a page in a book you won't add thickness and you can still see through it and read it .
It would be used in conjunction with rice paste
They also take paper and beat it to a pulp and use that to fill the damaged area. It is also used on the spine to repair and strengthen that.
papers used for restoration, would be Kozo papers , silk tissue Sukisue, Eurigami .

Origami, the art of folding paper.
You can use a lot of the Japanese hand printed paper, which are the Yuzens or Mingeys which are the fanciest and more decorative but also the most expensive papers, and can be cut down to squares. but for Origami you can use any type of paper from precut origami papers, to cutting down wrapping papers or maps, any type of thin paper works, and we have hundreds of papers that would work for that in any quality you would want.
most Origami is based on a square but there are some based on rectangles or two squares.

Shodo or the study of Calligraphy There are practice papers for Shodo, Hanshi paper is a practice paper it is a very thin tissue weight paper and a disposable inexpensive paper.
Masha, Torinoko, Hosho and Kozo papers will do well also. Papers for Shodo tend not to have long visible fibers like Unryu .
The brushes need to be able to slide on the surface , so you need a smooth paper without too much "tooth" to the paper surface. The paper tends to be flatter more simpler papers.
The different absorbencies will yield different styles in calligraphy with the control of water and ink in the paper. we carry the ink and we carry a variety of Japanese and Chinese brushes made from many things such as goat , horse hair weasel wolf sheep wool. some are more stiff like the horse hair , the weasel is softer , the sheep wool is very soft and tends to lay over with heavy moisture and it's hard to control them , but they hold a lot of moisture. the horse hair is going to be for calligraphy with longer fibers and stiffness for more control. Weasel is going to be cheaper for students as well as the wolf hair.

-e inks come in liquid or stick form as well as different quality and colorations which cause different costs. there are very fine grades as well as good grades , they range from superior quality, excellent quality, fine quality, good quality. and they will have different tones. they basically burn woods and collect the soot and roll it with a binder and create the sticks. A blue tone in your black would be a very excellent superior grade , there are also red purple and yellow tones to the ink grades..

Japan has had the finest papers since about a hundred and fifty years after they learned the techniques from the Chinese. they're still the finest and most beautiful and still the most expensive papers. there are alternatives such as the Thai and Chinese but the quality will be much different , the fibers being grown in different climates but still using the Gambi and Koso fiber plants.