在来織物業の技術革新と流行市場 : 幕末・明治前期の輸入毛織物インパクト

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In the years after the opening of the first treaty ports in 1859, large scale imports of woollen textiles from Western Europe had a greater role than cotton textile imports in influencing Japanese markets and transforming the technology of the silk and cotton industries. This paper investigates the socio-economic impact of these woollen textiles in order to prove the hypothesis that powerful Japanese textile production centers reacted positively to the popularity of foreign goods by developing new fashions through the production of new textiles. Some of the oldest and most powerful silk and cotton textile centers developed new silk-cotton mixed weaves by adding foreign techniques to their accumulated tradition of domestic technology. The popularity of foreign woollen goods had a great influence on the domestic fashion textiles market and encouraged the technological growth of textile production centers while leading to the improvement of the new silk-cotton mixed weaves. In addition, the high quality of the new textiles with their fashionable designs was a necessary condition for the development of the silk and cotton textile industries in Japan. It was therefore possible for the domestic fashion textiles market of early Meiji Japan to absorb the impact of imported woollen textiles.
社会経済史学会の論文
2001-11-25