[Rarebooks] FS: 1870s Fukushima Japan ‘Kakeda Silk’ Label
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1870s Fukushima Japan ‘Kakeda Silk’ Label.
A handsome label for the famous Kakeda silk, featuring the traditional
Japanese rising sun and cranes. “The silk reeling industry in the
Fukushima district had originally developed as a putting-out system
controlled by local city merchants, and the traditional hand and
sedentary reeling methods were used. The produce of this district,
generally known as Kakeda silk, continued to remain in fair demand on
the European market until the late 1870s” (Japan's Industrialization in
the World Economy:1859-1899: Export, Trade and Overseas Competition by
Shinya Sugiyama, 2013).
In 1880 the Japan Weekly Mail complained- “Now it is well know, to all
silk buyers, that the district from which true Kakeda silk comes is of
small extent and quite incapable of producing more than a fractional
part of the silk which is put on the market under its name. The quality
of true Kakeda silk, being of exceptional excellence, has made for this
class a name of renown; and it is no secret that reelers have attempted
to profit from this by making nearly all Oshiu silks into so-called
Kakeda, and thus bringing disrepute upon the original good stock”. In
the 1880s export from the district declined in favor of other regions
with better quality-control methods.
Label. 5”x3.5”. Minor soil; carefully mounted on a thin blue paper
backing. $175
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