Kyoto Textile Company - Kyoto Textile Company

Japanese: 京都織物会社 - きょうとおりものかいしゃ
Kyoto Textile Company - Kyoto Textile Company

...The main reason that the wholesaler system was dominant in the domestic silk weaving industry was that the domestic market for silk as a luxury item was extremely unstable. There was an example of the introduction of power looms to the silk weaving industry in 1889, when the Japan Textile Company (Kiryu) and the Kyoto Textile Company (Kyoto) installed imported power looms, but imported power looms did not become widely used by the general public. It was in the mid-1900s that cheap domestic power looms such as the Saigai-type silk power loom (completed in 1898) by Saito Toichi of Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, and the Tsuda-type silk power loom (completed in 1900) by Tsuda Yonejiro of Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, were adopted simultaneously by the export habutae industry in Fukui, Ishikawa, and other areas. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Kyoto Textile Company" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…国内市場向け絹織物業において問屋制支配が展開したのは,奢侈品としての絹織物に対する国内市場がきわめて不安定だった点に大きな原因があるといえよう。 絹織物業への力織機の導入については,1889年に日本織物会社(桐生)と京都織物会社(京都)が輸入力織機を据え付けた事例があるが,輸入力織機は一般にはあまり普及しない。山形県鶴岡の斎藤外市による斎外式絹力織機(1898完成)や石川県金沢の津田米次郎による津田式絹力織機(1900完成)などの安価な国産力織機が,福井,石川などの輸出羽二重業で一斉に採用されたのは1900年代中期である。…

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