
[Yamagata Prefecture] Tsuruoka's silk fabric industry created by changing swords to hoes.
Table of Contents 1 During the Edo period, Tsuruoka was ruled by the Sakai clan of the Shonai domain.2 Samurai who lost their jobs during the Meiji Restoration threw away their swords and replaced them with hoes, and cleared the mountain forests into mulberry fields.3 “Tsuruoka...