Japanese Print "Prince Genji at Silk Farm" by Utagawa Kunisada

Artist:Utagawa Kunisada

Title:Prince Genji at Silk Farm

Date:1890.

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Description:

Prince Genji is at a silk farm. A woman came back a pile of mulberry leaves. The leaves will be chopped up and fed to silkworms which are kept on bamboo mats. After the worms become cocoons, they are boiled in water and spinned for the long silk thread.

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