Edo Traveler

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Kyoto was once the political center of Japan, but now its status has become extremely embarrassing. The political center has moved to Edo, not to mention the military center. As for the economic center and the cultural center, it is not at all mentioned.

As an economic center, he can't beat Edo, even Osaka, and even Nagasaki in certain periods of time. As for the so-called cultural center that he has always been proud of, it's actually nothing but huh.

The stall culture of the samurai family, it is naturally impossible to preserve it in Kyoto. Today, the best preserved are two places, one is Edo and the other is Ashikaga. This Ashikaga refers to Ashikaga School, and it can be said if there is a chance to expand. Shintoism, Buddhism, they are all attached to Kyoto, but the shrines that are truly famous at home and abroad, such as Izumo Taisha, Ise Jingu, Atsuta Jingu, Kamakura Tsuruoka Hachimangu, Kasuga Taisha, Todaiji, etc. are not in Kyoto.

It is also because a group of idle public officials live in Kyoto, this can be regarded as retaining some of the public culture, and it can barely be regarded as one of the cultural centers.

Like Edo, Kyoto is also dotted with large and small temples, and many places have five-storied pagodas. It was evening class, and the bells sounded far away, and occasionally one or two devout believers were seen on the side of the road, praying in the direction of the monastery.

But these are not the goals of Chuemon. What we want to investigate most is whether the economic situation of Kyoto is affected by the huge amount of counterfeit Satsuma money.

Because there are a large number of nobles and nobles living in Kyoto, these people have some other messy income in addition to the 100,000 shi salaries given by the opening government. For example, the Tokugawa family and the kinsmen must marry the daughters of the palace family and the emperor, and the dowry is a terrifying number.

For example, in the future to marry Tokugawa Iamiya, the shogunate gave as much as sixty thousand liang of gold to the people of Kyoto to marry her. On the day the marriage was confirmed, the shogunate sent ten thousand taels of gold to the imperial palace. During the whole proposal period, Edo's gold was transferred to Kyoto non-stop day and night.

Many of the daughters of the imperial family and Gongqing married Yusanqing, Yusanjia, and other relatives. With so many men married, the amount of gold sent to Kyoto every year is more than ten thousand taels.

Precisely because of the existence of these "consumers" who do not produce but have a bit of money to consume, the handicraft industries such as silk weaving, printing and dyeing, paper, and copper manufacturing in Kyoto are extremely developed, and the scale is only inferior to the population. Many, consumers are more Edo.

The most famous "Nishijin-ori" in modern Japan was born near present-day Kyoto. Due to the long history of local production and excellent production technology, it is often better than Edo's production in terms of the value and reputation of the product.

Although the "Asakusa paper" used by Chuemon to wipe our buttocks will be famous in the future, it will not be better than the "Kyotang paper" of Kyoto. Other handicraft products often add the word "Jing" to show their uniqueness. Such as "Kyoshin" and "Kyoshin" are all to advertise that they are produced in Kyoto.

These handicraft products are not only for public use, but also sold throughout Japan. Although the scale of Kyoto's handicraft industry is not the largest, it can basically be called the most sophisticated.

I don’t know how much affected by the counterfeit currency this time?

We don’t need to pretend to be some buns. In the eyes of Kyoto people, all people in Japan are buns. Whether it is now or in the future, people in Kyoto see other Japanese people the same, with an inexplicable sense of superiority. Moreover, Luoyin and Kanto's Edo accent are quite different, and they can't pretend to be at all for a while.

Just to "show the enemy's weakness", he pretended to be the son of a rich peasant who came to Kyoto from the countryside, just to travel around and see the local customs. Anyway, most of the rich farm houses have the privilege of the Miao-character saber, even if Chuemon is dressed as a samurai, there is no problem.

Going down from Shangkyo, where the imperial palace forbidden areas and a large number of residences of princes and princes are gathered, is the real handicraft and residential area of ​​Kyoto.

The Shimokyo area of ​​Kyoto has experienced large fires many times, so the fire fighting was also established under the auspices of the shogunate. There are fire snails in each street and town, and they are erected high in the street. Like the signpost, it was just right for Tademon to recognize.

The Nishijin weaving just mentioned was originally located near Omiya in Kyoto. However, because this was the location of the Western Army's main line during the Onin Rebellion, the people in Kyoto called it "Nishijin". This place name will continue to be used and will not change anymore.

The entire Nishijin area is full of textile workshops, as well as a large number of gold and silver thread and yarn wholesale shops. The sky is not yet dark, and the sound of the machine can be faintly heard. It is the weavers weaving Beijing white silk.

You don't need to pick, just walk into a silk shop at will, and the guy in the shop will see what Tademon Gate looks like and know where Shangluo, the son of a wealthy farmer in the country, is. The reason why he is not the son of a samurai is because the poor ghost samurai didn't have the guts to walk into such a high-end silk shop. The rich upper-class samurai didn't need to come to the silk shop by themselves.

People call for door-to-door service!

After hearing that Chuemon said that he was going to buy clothes belts and materials, he would return home to the female relatives at home as a gift for traveling. The guy just assumed that he was being taken advantage of, and he immediately bragged about it. At the sight of the move, Chuemon pretended to be surprised, and kept asking about the situation of the silk weaving industry in Kyoto~www.readwn.com~ and got a lot of news.

The silk weaving industry in Kyoto really does not work!

A fire broke out in Kyoto two years ago (1841), and the fire spread to the Nishijin area. The loom alone burned more than 3,000 sheets, and it has not fully recovered until now. In addition, the shogunate issued a frugal order back and forth, which hit the market for high-end silk fabrics. The situation of the silk weaving industry in Kyoto has become increasingly difficult.

That's all, when Chungemon secretly cursed that he had actually exchanged several counterfeit silver for the bean silver that he had previously exchanged for Western countries. The guy felt the same way, and even the store manager (dominant, banned director) joined the discussion. One bite, one young master, you just arrived here, and you don’t know the situation. Our shops can be miserable by the fake money.

As long as you receive a sum of fake silver, it is equivalent to days of work for nothing. Had it not been for these silk merchants, they were all monopoly merchants with the exclusive rights of the shogunate. They had a solid family background and would have gone bankrupt because a large number of counterfeit currencies flooded the market.

Some silk merchants and textile proprietors with weak families went bankrupt because of this incident. Coupled with the fire two years ago, worse is the best adjective. It's just a silk weaving industry in Kyoto. Because of this fake silver business, at least three or four out of ten merchants have fallen, and it's not a shallow one.