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JUST ANOTHER BUNCH OF THOSE COTTON PICKIN’ JAPANESE
Image by Okinawa Soba
Oh…wait a minute…they really are a bunch of cotton pickin’ Japanese !
Yes, I know, we sometimes think the Japanese only spun SILK for the themselves and the world.
And silk, silk, and more silk for a never ending supply of Geisha Kimonos !
But, their world of textiles was much larger than that.
When Commodore Perry arrived in Okinawa in 1852, and in mainland Japan in 1854, the officers and explores noticed that, among other broad and varied crops, cotton fields could be seen in many places.
The Japanese peasant farmers of the Feudal ages, and under the Meiji restoration did all of their own cotton planting, and cotton picking…. without the help of imported or domestic slaves.
Unfortunately, our poor folks in the photo are separating the seeds from the cotton fiber without the aid of a COTTON GIN.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_gin
On the other hand, they can spend all day doing this while telling jokes to each other, and trash-talking the disgustingly immoral farmer’s wife down the road…. who was actually seen holding her husband’s hand (gasp!), and (horror of all horrors) giving him a kiss.
THE EARLY YEARS : Cotton textiles become the leading export
item for Japan.
"…….Cotton has played a role in the Japanese economy for centuries.
During the Tokugawa era (1600-1868) peasant families started to
produce cotton goods on a cottage-industry basis, with the domestic
supply of raw cotton adequate for domestic consumption.
……For example, in areas around Osaka and Nagoya, farmers cultivated
cotton and families earned extra money by spinning yarn and weaving
fabric in their homes. Domestic cotton production, however, rapidly
declined during the later half of the 19th century as the variety of
cotton and the climate was not suited for cotton for industrial textile
production.
…….Cotton was essential for the industrialization of Japan during the Meiji
Era (1868-1912). At the very end of the Tokugawa period, the
Satsuma domain on the island of Kyushu, one of the most powerful feudal domains in Japan, built the first mill by importing 6,000
spindles from the Platt Company in England. The Meiji government
provided the infrastructure for the growth of the industry.
…….The government also played a small role in directly supporting the industry. For example, the government purchased a small mill in the city of Sakai near Osaka
with the intent of making it into a model factory that would inspire
private investment in similar enterprises. Over the next few years the
factory modestly expanded production and began to turn a small
profit. Such large crowds gathered outside to gawk at the mill that
they decided to charge a small fee for a tour. The government sold
the mill in 1878……"
www.usdajapan.org/en/reports/The History of US Cotton in Japan.pdf
Large, hand-colored albumen print. Photographer unknown, but Okinawa Soba attributes it to SHINICHI SUZUKI, whose studio closed in 1896.
RANDOM SOBA : www.flickriver.com/photos/24443965@N08/random/
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