Silk Country - Kinunokuni

Japanese: 絹の国 - きぬのくに
Silk Country - Kinunokuni

…However, after the Kangxi period of the Qing dynasty (1662-1722), as British trade with China flourished, tea exports increased dramatically, replacing silk textiles. Then, as the silk textile industry in Japan and Western Europe developed, the amount of exports gradually decreased. [Taketoshi Sato]
[Spread across the world]
Just as the ancient Romans called China Serica (the country of silk), Chinese silk textiles were an important trade item and were exported far and wide to foreign countries via land routes on the Silk Road and sea routes in the South Seas since before the Han Dynasty. Silk embroidery from the Warring States period unearthed at Pazyryk in eastern Altai, Han brocade unearthed at Palmyra in Syria, and the large quantities of silk textiles from the Han to Tang dynasties unearthed at various points along the Silk Road tell us how this happened.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Land of Silk" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…しかし清代康熙年間(1662‐1722)以後,イギリスの中国貿易が盛んになると絹織物にかわって茶の輸出が激増し,やがて日本,西欧の絹織物業が発達し,輸出額がしだいに減少することになった。【佐藤 武敏】
[世界各地への伝播]
 古代ローマで中国を呼ぶのにセリカSerica(絹の国)の名が当てられたように,中国の絹織物は重要な交易品として,古く漢代以前からシルクロードの陸路を経て,また南海の海路によって遠く国外に輸出された。アルタイ東部のパジリクから出土した戦国時代の絹の刺繡や,シリアのパルミュラ出土の漢代錦,そしてシルクロードの各地点から出土した漢~唐代の多量の絹織物は,その経緯を伝えるものである。…

※「絹の国」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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