[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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