昭和初年の『衣笠蚕報』 : 昭和初期日本蚕糸業の一断面
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This is an attempt to investigate some of the problems of the Japanese silkmanufacturing industry in the first seven years of the Showa era, which includes the years of the Showa-panic. The analysis is chiefly based on 'The Kinugasa-Sampo' published by Kinugasa San-yukai (Kinugasa Silk Club) of Kyoto Technical School of Silk Industry at Kinugasa in Kyoto. After the First World War, the development of the Japanese silk-manufacturing industry, which had been led by the silk-reeling industry, was stopped, or strictly speaking, the pace of its developmnet was slowed down. And then some serious problems of this industry came to reveal themselves. First, the market for the Japanese silk was getting reduced, because in response to the request of Amercan silk industry which demanded the silk with better quality and at a lower price, French and Italian silk, with respect to the quality, and Chinese silk, especially Kanton silk, with respect to the price, were in a much stronger position than Japanese silk. Thus, recovery of the European economy after the First World War and development of the Chinese silk-manufacturing industry had brought into existence 'two powerful rivals' of the Japanese silk-manufacturing industry. Secondly, the rayon industry which was growing at a remarkable rate was invading the silk market. Thirdly, with the breakdown of the Japanesc silk-manufacturing system predominant in the Meiji era, in which the 'putting outers' of silk in Yokohama were almost the only leaders of this industry, and as the various interests within the Japanese silk industry came to lay their respcctive claims for their own benefit, conflicts between classes came to manifest themselves. The situation was further aggravated in the period of the Showa-panic. The price of silk fell by 80 per cent. Strikes of silk-reeling girls took place almost every month. Confronted with these difficulties, the Japanese silk-manufacturing industry -more specifically the capitalists of the silk-reeling industry- sought a solution in the policy of imperialism', trying to shift the matters on the shoulders of Korean, Chinese, and other Asian peoples. Thus, when we investigate the Japanese silk-manufacturing industry at that time, we cannot ignore the role of the 'Japanese imperialism'.
- 社会経済史学会の論文
- 1974-10-25