Osaka Weaving Fabric

Japanese: 大阪織布 - おおさかしょくふ

…The following year, the company opened with 10,500 steam-powered spindles and just under 300 workers, the largest scale at the time, with Yamabe Tsuyoshi, who had just returned from England, as the construction manager. It achieved good results with full operation under a two-shift system, day and night, and installed electric lights, and sparked the spinning boom of the late 1980s. In 1990, it acquired Osaka Orimono to become a spinning and weaving company. In 1906, it formed the San-ei Cotton Fabric Union with Mie Spinning and Kinkin Seiki, and in cooperation with Mitsui & Co., it monopolized the Korean coarse cloth market. It also participated in the Japan Cotton Fabric Export Union for Manchuria (northeastern China), which was formed in the same year. In 1907, Kinkin Seiki acquired and merged with Shiroishi Spinning, but in June 1914, it merged with Mie Spinning, both of which had close ties with Shibusawa and made similar products, to become Toyobo. …

From the Cotton Textile Industry

…On the other hand, the Onagigawa Cotton Company, established in Tokyo in 1887, began producing wide-width cotton cloth in 1888 using 200 imported power looms, which gradually increased mainly as a spinning company. In 1889, the Kyoto Cotton Yarn Weaving Company and the Osaka Weaving Company were established, and cotton cloth factories equipped with a large number of power looms were established in various places. In 1897, Sakichi Toyoda completed a wooden power loom, which he later improved to an iron one, greatly contributing to the development of the cotton weaving industry in Japan. …

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Japanese:

…翌年，イギリス帰りの山辺丈夫を工務支配人とし，蒸気機関による1万500錘，労働者300人弱という当時最大の規模で開業し，電灯を設備しての昼夜二交替制のフル操業で好成績をあげ，80年代後半の紡績ブームを呼び起こした。90年大阪織布を買収して紡績兼営織布会社となり，1906年には三重紡績，金巾製織と三栄綿布組合を結成して三井物産と提携し朝鮮の粗布市場を独占し，同年結成の満州(中国東北)向けの日本綿布輸出組合にも参加した。同年金巾製織，07年白石紡績所を買収･合併したが，14年6月，ともに渋沢との関係が深く製品面でも類似していた三重紡績と合併し，東洋紡績となった。…

【綿織物業】より

…一方，1887年東京に設立された小名木川（おなきがわ）綿布会社が88年から開始した輸入力織機200台による広幅綿布生産は，主として紡績会社の兼営としてしだいに増加した。その後，89年に京都綿糸織物会社，大阪織布会社と各地に大量の力織機を装備した綿布工場が設立された。また97年には豊田佐吉が木製の力織機を完成，その後これを鉄製に改良，日本の綿織物業の発展に大きく寄与した。…

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