Oh, thats a Japanese watermark calligraphy thing. Its on this really hard paper, but at the same time it feels like really soft wood. We had a Japanese foreign exchange student stay at our house one summer, and since I could speak some Japanese I was like the go-to guy for her, and anyway, we talked before she came here for about a month while I was helping her with american websites telling her what she needed to bring, and when she came here she brought me that and a whole bunch of other stuff from Japan. It means "the road" or "the journey."