Spinning silk from the cocoons

[A Japanese woman, with one shoe (geta) off (to operate spinning machine), spinning silk from silkworm cocoons]

Preparing silk cocoons

Spinning the Silk (No.11)

Weaving silk; spinning silk; carrying fertilizers

Plate 6 (Examining the Newly Spun Cocoons), from the series "Kaiko Yashinai-gusa"

After silk worm has finished his work - cocoons from which raw silk is produced, Shizuoka, Japan

Mammoth plant of the Mitsui Company, boiling cocoons and reeling silk, Maebashi, Japan

Weaving silk, plate 11 from the series "Silkworm Cultivation (Kaiko yashinai gusa)"

No.6 Picture of the Silkworms Making Their Cocoons

Weaving the Silk (No.12)

[Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning machine]

Southwest Japan (Kyūshū, Shikoku, and southwest Honshū), cotton spinning, silk and rayon production

Operatives' Welfare, The Kanegafuchi Spinning Co., Ltd., Japan

The Diligence of Women Workers at the Tomioka Spinning Mill

Courtesan and her Attendants in the Yoshiwara - Originally from the book Willow Silk

Spring at Enoshima - Originally from the book Willow Silk

Saddle, Wringer, Smoking Outfit and Plum Branch/ The Cotton Spinning Horse (Watakuri uma), from the series A Selection of Horses (Umazukushi)

Stirring the Silk Worms (No. 4)

Modern Reproduction of "Extracting Silk from Silkworm Eggs", series Seven Scenes of Sericulture

SCAPIN-492: APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF LOAN TO THE TOYO SILK YARN SPINNING AND WEAVING CO., LTD 1945/12/24

Stretching the Silk Floss (No.10)

From the Sky

Illustrations of six pages from a book of Japanese paintings on silk. (These are emblematical of the six sea...

Viewing the Snow from the Hillside, from the series Pilgrimages to Yamato

Grand hotel at Yokohama

Stone steps leading to temple in Tokyo

Harvesting the rice crop

Sleeping accomodations for two

Basket vender

Boys playing kotoro

An informal afternoon tea

Creek-side, Yokohama

Kago bearers

Peninsula of Enoshima near Yokohama

Book, magazine and picture shop

Mother and child

View of Nagoya

Miyamairi ceremony

Weighing tea

Oyama in province of Sagami

Cultivating silkworms

Shop in Fushimi near Kyoto

Seaside resort at Hommoku

Six-angled temple in Kyoto

Main street, Yokohama

Japanese dogs

A summer day in the woods

Bronze image of Amida